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Beyond just basic notions of making a bunch of money from your photography. What’s new and interesting ways you can integrate crypto and crypto technologies for photography? Not just selling your digital photos as NFT’s, which is still a basic way to think about selling one’s photos by analogy. Think first principles.
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Life is short, street photography is long. 1. Street photography is your connection to reality In SKIN IN THE GAME by Nassim Taleb, he has the analogy of the one Greek god who got his power from being connected to the ground. Once you lifted him off the ground, he lost his power. Street photography…
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Dear friends, A thought — What awaits you? A bold new direction, and a bold new future in your photography. How to unlock this? Some thoughts: 1. Always go back to first principles If you think Aristotle and Elon Musk, the #1 entrepreneurial thought is– Take things back to first principles. Rather than thinking by…
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Dear friends, To promote my new and upcoming WORKSHOPS, I wanted to share some insightful thoughts which can hopefully turbocharge you: 1. Why street photography? When I consider all of my writings and thoughts on street photography, the good thing is that as time goes on, I become more fascinated in the nuances around street…
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When you see a potentially interesting street photo, just keep following the person, and keep clicking while walking and following them. Often the best photo is towards the end (after 36+ photos).
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40mm on RICOH GR IIIX— my new favorite focal length:
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Let us assume Apple is a photography company. What does that mean? Photography as a trillion$+ market which is ever-expanding and growing. Even the new iPhone SE — camera and photo and video quality is insanely good! When a new parent gets a kid — what do they become obsessed with? Photography.
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A simple thought: if you optimize your whole life and your whole existence for and towards photography, how can you go wrong? That is, to optimize your life to expose yourself to new experiences, thoughts, and approaches in order to maximize your inspiration and motivation to make photos.
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My personal ambition: To become to photography what Tesla (Elon Musk) is for electric cars, what Kanye West (YEEZY) is to fashion/music/hip-hop/rap, and what Apple is for technology.
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The Palm Springs modern art museum as a great place!
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How do you excite or motivate yourself to make photos which will uncover your hidden talent? PDF TEXT > Podcast Photo Thoughts This morning, some thoughts: What is your desired end goal with photography? How do you motivate yourself to go out and shoot more photos? What is the best and ideal camera? No Ricoh…
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The other day I was in a retro arcade, and I saw street fighter, streetfighter two championship edition, and street fighter two turbo. Also, thinking a lot about streetwear. Isn’t it ironic that the word “street” is also in street photographer?
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My personal ideal for is street photographers: Insanely strong and durable legs. Being able to walk 30,000 steps in a day like it is no deal. Also, being able to sumo deadlift at least 405 pounds, and squat at least 315 pounds. Minimalist ideology and approach. Perhaps it is better to be minimalist to a…
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Advice I would have given myself in street photography, if I started all over again: The most important equipment in Street photography is a good pair of minimalist shoes. The lighter, zero drop, the better. Also, pair it with some good merino wool socks. The best camera for street photography is the newest digital Ricoh…
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If you desire to become a street photography entrepreneur, start off by making your own blog on street photography. WordPress.org and get hosting like bluehost.com or 1and1.com. The best domain is your first and last name. If that is taken, do your firstandlastnamestreetphotography.com What should you write and blog about? Just create advice, tips, and…
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To motivate us for the new year, some ideas: When in doubt, just take a walk around the block with your camera. Most likely you’ll see at least one or two things you want to photograph. As an audacious life goal, strive to walk at least 30,000 steps a day. Most likely you will not…
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Inherent in every photography, and every photographer is a certain psychology. For example, it is very easy to smell optimism or pessimism in a photographer, or their photographs. For example, when I look at the photos of a Araki or Daido, I don’t really see hope or optimism, I only see confusion, despair, and suffering.
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Composition means to figure out what to add to your frame, and what to subtract from your frame. Some practical thoughts:
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What is the greatest stumbling block for photographers? Motivation. The question: How does one stay productive, motivated and encouraged throughout their photographic life?
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Dear friends, With the new COVID variant out and about, it seems this is the reality: There will always be some sort of COVID out there. Then the question: In spite of COVID and ongoing pandemics … how can we still keep traveling (safely) and embarking on more travel street photography adventures?
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What do you do once you become a crypto billionaire, and once you’ve retired, and achieved financial freedom and independence? Simple: focus on your creative leisure activity, which is photography.
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Some ways how to differentiate yourself as a photographer: 1. You are the ultimate brand The first thing to consider is this: know that you are your own ultimate brand. Use your first and last name, and promote the hell out of yourself. The more shamelessly you could promote yourself, the better. 2. Being self-centered…
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Some real ideas on branding:
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In today’s world, it seems to only make ‘prudent’ investments towards your ‘future’ — in order to ‘retire’ and to ‘save’. But — what if this were all just a trap? Which just keeps us complacent, living our little cubes (like FREE GUY). What is a better investment? Towards our own life, our own current…
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Your value as a street photographer is dependent on your appetite for risk. And what is ‘happiness’ for us as photographers? Living the maximally risk-loving life!
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ERIC KIM NEWS > Dear friend, Why do we do photography? Because it is our art. Why do we not consider our photography our art? Is it because the bias that photography is not a ‘true’ art, because it is too easy (compared to oil painting)? Or is it because of the elitism of the…
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Dear friend, Street photography (and photography in general) is our passion. But the question — How do we stay inspired and motivated to keep doing it? Some thoughts:
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The truth: No need to have people in your street photos. Certainly most street photos are superior *with* people, but they are not necessary. If you can create strong images without people, so be it!
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Half the fun of street photography: Aiming to make fun and novel compositions! For example, shooting layers. Or striving to discover new compositions never done before.
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Something to a lot of people talk about: whether street photography has to be on the streets or not. I say it does not. Street photography is more of a catchall term which involves photography that has to do with humanity.
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Dear friend, A focus this week for you: Focus on making photos as dark as possible (ADAP), and practice with highlight weighted metering.
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Street photography is truly great. Why? It combines all of the things which are beneficial to humans thriving: walking, social interaction, being in public, making artwork, traveling, and being active.
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Dear friend, What is my personal modus in photography? Simple — Helping you achieve your personal maximum in your photography.
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What types of photos make me feel the most fulfilled? Photos that bring a smile my own face. Photos of my loved ones, people those who I care for, and photos which I interpret as my artwork (Street photography, abstract photography).
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What type of photography is most noble? The type of photos which have personal significance to you. For me, photos of Seneca, photos of Cindy. Photos of myself. Photos of society, and street photography (street portraits).
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ERIC KIM NEWSLETTER > Dear friend, If you upload your photos online, you’re a photography entrepreneur. Then assuming that we are all in a stream of becoming, then the question is: How can we become MORE entrepreneurial in our photography and life?
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A simple way to make more creative photo compositions: Experiment with your focus. For example focus on what’s closest to you via macro mode, or focus what’s really far away, while getting close to your subject (deep depth, layers in photography).
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For those of us stuck in boring places — you can still shoot street photography; making interesting photos out of a very boring place!
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What do we want from our photography? Self-development. To continue our self-growth, self-development. To what ends? To make more interesting photos (to ourselves), to increase and heighten your visual acuity of the world (to see more photo opportunities), and to share these insights with others.
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ERIC KIM NEWS Dear friend, Thought: What is the future for you and your photography? Or in other words, What type of photographer do you desire to become?
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In today’s world, what is the most epic type of photographer-artist we can become? A street photographer.
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FREE MOTIVATION >>> Dear friends, In order to promote my new and upcoming LEARN FROM THE MASTERS ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP (Dec 11, 2021), I wanted to use this as an opportunity to reflect on my own photographic journey, and what I have personally learned from the masters of photography, and hopefully what you can learn…
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In today’s over-saturated social media world, it is the best time for you to start your own photography blog (bluehost.com and install WordPress.org). Why? Your own open source platform for your photos, thoughts, or anything in-between. You are the owner, the master — you own your domain. More control, more power. An online archive of…
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After much contemplation and experimentation, I believe that the 28 mm lens is the best, perfect, ideal, and supreme lens for street photography, and generally most types of photography. Why? My thoughts:
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Assuming photography is our passion,, the question: How do we do more of it?
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Photography is my passion. And what brings me insane joy? To do more of it.
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Turbo thought: Perhaps it isn’t ‘street’ photography we are doing, but *society* photography.
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A strong and solid primer to street photography [if I started all over again]:
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Anything you can do to increase street photography options, the better.
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A strong and solid primer to street photography [if I started all over again]: