How do we do more of it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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1. See yourself as a ‘full stack’ visual artist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_0403.jpg?resize=1668%2C2388&ssl=1\")
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\nYou’re not a photographer, you’re a visual artist<\/a>. Thus, the world is your visual oyster. Treat yourself like a Picasso<\/a> or a Leonardo da Vinci<\/a> rather than a reductive ‘photographer’. If Leonardo were alive today, he would looooove the technology of the digital camera, and use it in his artistic and scientistic pursuits.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUse all the tools at your hands. iPad<\/a> and Procreate<\/a>, or the iPhone and Zen Brush 2 calligraphy app.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAll creative outlets are good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_0400.jpg?resize=1668%2C2388&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n2. Travel more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/0D40420A-4D48-460A-94D4-EC864762DA22-scaled.jpeg?resize=2560%2C1707&ssl=1\")
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nTravel just literally means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leaving your home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
To travel can be as simple as leaving your front porch. TRAVEL NOTES<\/a> as your personal guide [get free TRAVEL NOTES DIGITAL EDITION<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\nI find traveling as the ultimate stimulus to photography. Why? The more you get out of your home, the more you see and experience. And it doesn’t gotta be far \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 just go to your local InandOut burger, your local Costco, or just go on a short road trip somewhere. If you’re in the states, even a short flight somewhere closeby via Southwest as a great stimulus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Becoming part of a photography community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"selfie](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/00C9FA28-23B3-4579-A87E-C890B615B487-scaled.jpeg?resize=2560%2C1707&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nEither in person or online. arsbeta.com<\/a> as my humble attempt at an “decentralized online anti Social social media platform<\/a>” for photographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n- Upload photos to arsbeta.com<\/a><\/li>
- Rate<\/a> other photos on arsbeta.com<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Or you can attend in person photography workshops<\/a> as a chance to meet other passionate photographers, and to join the social experience which is photography and street photography. Street photography as the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n4. All photography is good photography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"texture](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/69AA5E48-C72C-4A6D-B810-FB9056B0E243.jpeg?resize=1668%2C2348&ssl=1\")
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAll photography is good. I say just shoot small JPEG and high contrast black and white, and photograph any and everything in your life. To do more photography<\/a> means:<\/p>\n\n\n\nMore opportunities, fewer ‘cliche’ and ‘already been done before’ notions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Cliche is not that big of a deal<\/a>. Or what Tom Yeoman says, ‘Classic or cliche?<\/a>‘<\/p>\n\n\n\n5. Think less, shoot more.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
- <\/figure><\/li><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
You’re not a photographer, you’re a visual artist<\/a>. Thus, the world is your visual oyster. Treat yourself like a Picasso<\/a> or a Leonardo da Vinci<\/a> rather than a reductive ‘photographer’. If Leonardo were alive today, he would looooove the technology of the digital camera, and use it in his artistic and scientistic pursuits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Use all the tools at your hands. iPad<\/a> and Procreate<\/a>, or the iPhone and Zen Brush 2 calligraphy app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All creative outlets are good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n2. Travel more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
- <\/figure><\/li><\/figure><\/li><\/figure><\/li><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Travel just literally means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leaving your home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
To travel can be as simple as leaving your front porch. TRAVEL NOTES<\/a> as your personal guide [get free TRAVEL NOTES DIGITAL EDITION<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I find traveling as the ultimate stimulus to photography. Why? The more you get out of your home, the more you see and experience. And it doesn’t gotta be far \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 just go to your local InandOut burger, your local Costco, or just go on a short road trip somewhere. If you’re in the states, even a short flight somewhere closeby via Southwest as a great stimulus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Becoming part of a photography community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nEither in person or online. arsbeta.com<\/a> as my humble attempt at an “decentralized online anti Social social media platform<\/a>” for photographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Upload photos to arsbeta.com<\/a><\/li>
- Rate<\/a> other photos on arsbeta.com<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Or you can attend in person photography workshops<\/a> as a chance to meet other passionate photographers, and to join the social experience which is photography and street photography. Street photography as the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. All photography is good photography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
- <\/figure><\/li><\/figure><\/li><\/figure><\/li><\/figure><\/li><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
All photography is good. I say just shoot small JPEG and high contrast black and white, and photograph any and everything in your life. To do more photography<\/a> means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More opportunities, fewer ‘cliche’ and ‘already been done before’ notions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Cliche is not that big of a deal<\/a>. Or what Tom Yeoman says, ‘Classic or cliche?<\/a>‘<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Think less, shoot more.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
- Rate<\/a> other photos on arsbeta.com<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n