If you remember about two weeks ago I said that I would tell you which picture my young friend liked. He liked the frosted mountain ash berries. Something about thinking the frosted look was cool (no pun intended).
This leads me to my topic for this week. The topic is how everything in the artistic world photography included is prone to being liked or disliked depending on who the viewing audience is. It will also depend on the criteria they are looking for (in other words is it typically a subject matter or style that they gravitate to?) or there mood. So were does this leave us? Well for me I'm left with constantly having to make a choice.
Choice 1: Specialize in a specific market and not really take anything else. This option tends to be what a lot of wedding photographers will take. This is because these pictures are literally their bread and butter. So they will take the time to find out what the customer is buying and focus on those types of photos. This can be dangerous as you can eventually get board of taking the same classic shots at every event. But I guess that would be a possible sacrifice some are willing to take if it pays the bills.
Choice 2: Take a variety of different types and styles. Going where your mood takes you can be fun and maybe a bit freeing. However, it sometimes doesn't give a lot of time to get really good at any particular type or style of photography.
Choice 3: To give yourself the stability with choice 1 but give yourself some time to experiment like in choice 2. Who knows maybe you'll find yourself a new style. You see if one doesn't take the time once in a while to try new things they may never know if they can be better in another area or not. Besides choice 1 will only go so far if you don't keep up with the current trends.
So where does this leave someone like me? Well it may sound a little cynical but there will always be someone out there critiquing my work. So I choose regularly to not take the critique too much to heart as there will almost always be someone else down the road who will like something better than my own worst critic... me.
1 comment:
Like I said before hon, feedback is just as much a reflection of the person giving it as it is the thing being critiqued. Listen to people's opinions but be your own judge of things!
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