How to breathe new life into your photography:
1. Full-stack photography
The first idea:
Just shoot it all.
Make yourself a fully integrated, vertical-integration solution. You make the photos, you process the photos, you upload the photos, and you publish the photos, and share and market yourself.
Most photographers learn how to do the first few (how to operate their own camera, how to make their own photos, then how to process their own photos on their laptop). But the last stage they are lacking– the courage to publish themselves, to ‘self promote’ themselves, and to put themselves out there.
In fact, I like the idea of ‘marketing’, because the notion of a market is quite ancestral. Also, markets are fun! I love to go there to just people watch, check out new products, and make street photos of strangers I find interesting.
2. Always think carte blanche
Something I think about a lot– always back to first principles. Rather than think:
What is the best way for me to do x, y, z?
Better to think:
How SHOULD we do x, y, z, — wherefore, for whom, and why?
Aristotle and first principles. The root of our philosophical undertakings.
By becoming a more philosophical photographer, it will challenge you to re-think and combat the status-quo, and help you innovate, innovate new ways and under-takings and ways of approaching things and your photography.
3. Use simpler tools
Apple Photos over Adobe Lightroom. Extra small JPEG. RICOH GR IIIX.
In striving to simplify things, your photography and life … how can you not innovate?
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If this sparked any creative ideas within you, feel free to forward to a friend!