Do It For The Love Of It
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This is a Photograph Of The View From The Bridge Connecting Nassau With Paradise Island Bahamas.
As you can see, over time, I’VE CAME A LONG WAY! But, without days like these I would be no where. I still love this photograph and I will always love this photograph. Days like these, photographing for the love of photography, are the days that made it possible for me to do compensational work.
When I did this I had nowhere near the amount of stress of I have now from that view finder being to my eye. If though I said I do my work for me, I really have to do it to please the people that puts the bread on the table. It’s funny to me that, that’s the way it works. Looking at it from another angle, I still did it to please the person who used to put the food on the table, and I used it as a reminder who why she was paying so much gad damn money to send me to school – my mother.
I loved afternoon’s like these. That summer my friend Andrew D’Albenas and I would take his boat out and photograph the afternoons away. This particular evening I went with him and my brother-in-law. We docked the boat to get some conch salad underneath the first bridge that connected Paradise Island, Bahamas with the capital. After we ate we walked to the top of it for me to make this image (I enhanced it later using Lightroom.)
It still amazing me how many things I see in this photograph I would have done differently if I did it today. I’m able to identify my preferences because I push myself every day to get better, that’s all I can do from this point. With that said, I wouldn’t be surprised if in five years, five months I’m able to identify the things I would do differently if I made that image today.
At the time, composition was in my mind. In fact it’s the word I preach the most to the photographers that look up to me. I don’t know what my exact thoughts might have been for this photograph, but if I was to guess it would have probably been to relate / bringing the attention of the artificial light turning on with the sun setting within the distance.
I could really care less about what was actually going on in my mind, but I what I do care if about is that if you get the message what I’m saying in this article. I want you to do it for the love of doing it. As photographers I want us to go out and make more pictures, say fuck what everyone else thinks, don’t be afraid to be judge from what you make when you photograph, but, at the same time listen to when others share their thoughts with you. You’re going to become a better photographer when you do it for the love of it!
P.S. I mentioned the headache photo shoots etc. to please the clients. If I didn’t love seeing them happy I wouldn’t stress myself; I still do it for the love of it.
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DT.
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