ERIC KIM ₿

Digital medium format is a game-changer in photography — some of my personal thoughts while shooting with the Fujifilm GFX 50R:

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Why You Must Become More Assertive in Photography and Life

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The more consistent you’re in your photography, the less motivation you will have to make new photos:

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Practical photo project ideas for you:

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Currently testing the new Fujifilm GFX 50R (digital medium format camera) and the Fujifilm 45mm f/2.8 Lens, and here are some of my first-impressions and thoughts:

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To impress someone else, means to literally put an indentation on someone else. To make an impact on someone else — to affect them emotionally, to make your viewer think, or to also puzzle/confuse your viewer.

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Self-confidence is self-faith:

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Have a bias towards making new photos, always:

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If you want to experience the photography adventure of a lifetime, attend my upcoming Mexico City Street Photography Experience (March 7-10th, 2019) or my Hanoi to Sapa Street Photography Experience (April 24-29th, 2019) with a loved one!

This is the companion pass deal: If you sign up for the workshop, you can bring a companion for 50% off! This is perfect if you want to travel with your significant other, and also share an experience that both of you will remember forever (while sharing your passion of photography with your friend or life partner).

Don’t miss out! Invest in yourself at an upcoming ERIC KIM EXPERIENCE >

Street photography as the ultimate democratic form of photography :

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There are no ultimate ethics in street photography— you just dictate your own code of ethics for yourself.

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Self worth
Do you know it? If you do, can you write it in cursive?

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Beyond pain and pleasure in life — focus what you consider worthy of yourself.

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Where do we get the will to shoot? And how can we augment this feeling?

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I’ve been trying to determine what the best type of living, living mode, lifestyle is ideal for me — and it seems that ‘intermittent living’ is what I aspire towards:

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Improve your mood in order to improve your creative productivity:

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Make your life a work of (photographic) art:

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If you had access to unlimited food, coffee, entertainment, and if you already had a bed to sleep at night– what is the practical utility of money?

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Invest in Experiences, Not Equipment:

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Philosophical inquiries on life when living on a cruise ship:

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Resolutions for my 31st birthday:

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Conquer every and each day by using your own extreme resourcefulness to find the maximum benefit of every hour of your day.

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A thought:

What is more important, composition or aesthetics in photography? And are the two things totally different– or related?

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Practical tips to inspire you:

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Franz Kline: my current muse, and one of the most underrated painters and artists of all time:

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What we don’t need are new cameras. What we need are NEW eyes— to see reality with a new perspective.

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Why do we take drugs, enjoy pleasure, enjoy music, films, travel, and make artwork?

My theory:

To elevate ourselves — to feel super-human/super-natural.

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After looking through my older photos, and thinking when I was the most productive as a photographer– it is when I was living the most!

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The more you try to possess your photos, the more they possess you.

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Practical ideas on how to make great photos.

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Don’t worry about quality, focus on substance.

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Better to be obscure and misunderstood than than to be totally decipherable and easily understood.

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Life is infinitely too short to live it boring:

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To ‘curate’ means choosing the photos you care about. To build your strength as a photographer, you must curate your work to only display the photos you care about.

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To live the best possible life, perhaps we should strive to live everyday like it were our last– to make every single day perfect in our own eyes:

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Photography and life is a stream of images:

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Tips of things to photograph:

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Make photos because it is your artistic power:

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Why you must be you:

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Genre doesn’t exist in photography:

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What is the root of our dissatisfaction in our photographic artwork?

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Why You Must Put Yourself Out There:

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Reviewing some photos from last year, some tips:

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If you want to be epic in life, you must be brave, take chances, and take epic risks.

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An exciting entrepreneurial idea: essentially everything we do is streaming. And the more we stream our artwork, the more powerful we will become!

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A ‘better’ photo is a more personal one. A photo you shoot with your soul:

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I think if you adopt an ascetic lifestyle, you can live the best life possible, with the least amount of stress, and the maximum amount of personal freedom, joy, and artistic productivity:

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Conquer your fears and meet new peers:

• March 7-10: Mexico City / Travel Photography Experience – Feb 15th Early-Bird Discount Deadline
• March 30: San Francisco / Photography Marketing and Branding Workshop – NEW!
• April 6: San Francisco / Conquer Your Fears in Life Workshop – NEW!
• April 24-29: Hanoi to Sapa, Vietnam / Travel Photography Experience 

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Why is photography great?

Why idea:

We can transform our “normal” reality into something super-natural — something greater.

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Creating your own aesthetic in photography: the camera you use, the focal length you use, whether you shoot with flash or natural light, and how you process your photos (whether RAW or JPEG):

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What is the secret to success? We cannot be certain, but stopping and not continuing to hustle seems to a good path to unsuccess.

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Live dope with no hope for tomorrow or the day after 

Live today with brave laughter, despite disaster

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Why You Must Look at Your Older Photos

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Let us take back the means of production and publishing, by owning our own photo publishing platform (our website/blog), instead of just depending on Facebook-Instagram or other social media platforms.

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Is it Possible to Be “Happier” or More Happy in Life?

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My new life goal: shoot a billion photos before I die.

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First of all, recognize the fact that you ARE an artist.

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Practical tips and thoughts on making better pictures:

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What is “art”? To me, art is a concious activity of creating something that expresses you, your power, your ideas, or your own ideals.

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Basic money idea:

Rather than worrying about getting “rich”, better to focus on NOT going broke!

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Don’t delay your creating for tomorrow; create TODAY // RIGHT NOW!

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What is confidence?

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A thought:

In life, do things and consume things which make you stronger. Don’t do anything or consume anything that makes you weaker.

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A list of my personal virtues/vices, and personal rules for myself.

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My new rule to myself:

I will never hate, nay-say, or criticize anyone else.

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If you try to impress or please others with your photos; you will end up making boring photos.

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Obsession with optimizing your life will ruin your life:

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Sublime function for the minimalist photographer.

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Here is a general overview of my Lightroom (desktop) workflow currently looks like:

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With material things (phones, laptops, cars, homes, clothes) don’t seek the “perfect” thing. Rather, “satisfice” (satisfy + suffice); seek material things which you consider 80% “good enough” and settle/stick with it!

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