If your just starting out...............

For a long time, I use to look up photographer's that I admired and that inspired me and I use to ache inside. Why was my photos not as stunning, not as emotionally charged, why do my photos lack those amazing colours and that professional pop. I was hoping it would be as easy as to pop a little pill and then way hey....I am this amazing photographer I hoped and wished to be.

 

Sadly not as easy as that, if anybody does find a pill though please let me know!!!! Hard work and that dreaded work practice is what it takes to become the kind of photographer you inspire to be. I have recently purchased Jasmine Star's very first magazine, she is, for those of you who don't know her, an international wedding photographer and somebody I really look up to. Not just because her photos touch me, but because she is a very open person, and really puts herself out there, you either love her or you hate her but by her own admission, either way is ok. She has also given a huge amount back to the world of photography and those first starting out in the industry. 

 

When I first started out I emailed a ton of photographer's, some in my area and other's all over the country. About 3 of those actually got back to me, and even then I never really got any real advice or help. People are scared of new photographers, scared that they will be better than them, scared that they will steal their ideas and style, scared they will be better at the business side of things, scared they are a threat and will steal clients away. 

 

I spent the last two years trying to find 'my style' worrying so much about why my work does not look like these photographers, that I sort of lost the type of photographer I wanted to be in the first place. Your never going to please everybody but that is ok, everybody love's different forms of art and it would be boring if we were all the time. I wont lie and tell you I have found my style just yet, because if I am honest.... I have not. I am very nearly there though! 

 

So my advice to anybody just starting up is, don't worry about competition or people you look up to, pick that camera up, practice practice practice, shoot anything and everything you can, work on editing as editing is your own personal style, your own stamp on that photo for you to make that little piece of art of your client. 

 

Keep clicking....... K Lou xx