To kick off my new blog (which I really will try to keep updated as best I can) I thought it appropriate to use this article as an anchor. I first wrote it several years ago, and it’s been floating around the internet (albeit with “photographer” changed to such things as “hairdresser” and “scrapbooker” quite often) ever since.
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What Every Aspiring Photographer Should Know
These are my thoughts, nothing more and nothing less.
I get asked all the time, during workshops, in e-mails, in private messages, what words of wisdom I would give to a new and aspiring photographer. Here’s my answer.
– Style is a voice, not a prop or an action. If you can buy it, borrow it, download it, or steal it, it is not a style. Don’t look outward for your style; look inward.
– Know your stuff. Luck is a nice thing, but a terrifying thing to rely on. It’s like money; you only have it when you don’t need it.
– Never apologize for your own sense of beauty. Nobody can tell you what you should love. Do what you do brazenly and unapologetically. You cannot build your sense of aesthetics on a concensus.
– Say no. Say it often. It may be difficult, but you owe it to yourself and your clients. Turn down jobs that don’t fit you, say no to overbooking yourself. You are no good to anyone when you’re stressed and anxious.
– Learn to say “I’m a photographer” out loud with a straight face. If you can’t say it and believe it, you can’t expect anyone else to, either.
– You cannot specialize in everything.
– You don’t have to go into business just because people tell you you should! And you don’t have to be full time and making an executive income to be successful. If you decide you want to be in business, set your limits before you begin.
– Know your style before you hang out your shingle. If you don’t, your clients will dictate your style to you. That makes you nothing more than a picture taker. Changing your style later will force you to start all over again, and that’s tough.
– Accept critique, but don’t apply it blindly. Just because someone said it does not make it so. Critiques are opinions, nothing more. Consider the advice, consider the perspective of the advice giver, consider your style and what you want to convey in your work. Implement only what makes sense to implement. That doesn’t not make you ungrateful, it makes you independent.
– Leave room for yourself to grow and evolve. It may seem like a good idea to call your business “Precious Chubby Tootsies”….but what happens when you decide you love to photograph seniors? Or boudoir?
– Remember that if your work looks like everyone else’s, there’s no reason for a client to book you instead of someone else. Unless you’re cheaper. And nobody wants to be known as “the cheaper photographer”.
– Gimmicks and merchandise will come and go, but honest photography is never outdated.
– It’s easier to focus on buying that next piece of equipment than it is to accept that you should be able to create great work with what you’ve got. Buying stuff is a convenient and expensive distraction. You need a decent camera, a decent lens, and a light meter. Until you can use those tools consistently and masterfully, don’t spend another dime. Spend money on equipment ONLY when you’ve outgrown your current equipment and you’re being limited by it. There are no magic bullets.
– Learn that people photography is about people, not about photography. Great portraits are a side effect of a strong human connection.
– Never forget why you started taking pictures in the first place. Excellent technique is a great tool, but a terrible end product. The best thing your technique can do is not call attention to itself. Never let your technique upstage your subject.
– Never compare your journey with someone else’s. It’s a marathon with no finish line. Someone else may start out faster than you, may seem to progress more quickly than you, but every runner has his own pace. Your journey is your journey, not a competition. You will never “arrive”. No one ever does.
– Embrace frustration. It pushes you to learn and grow, broadens your horizons, and lights a fire under you when your work has gone cold. Nothing is more dangerous to an artist than complacency.
– CJ
Love the quotes.
Having a blog doesn’t make you any more common than having a Twitter feed. It’s all relative. Just like a photographer’s vision of a stunning image.
Keep ’em coming, thanks.
Cheryl,
where have you been all my life and why have I just discovered you? I’m a film photographer about to renew my 12-year portrait business and you have given me a great gift of inspiration and strength through your images and your words. Thank you a million times over.
Johannah
Johannah, thanks very much for the wonderful compliment. Very nice to meet you, and best of luck with your business!
– CJ
Hi Cheryl
I stumbled upon your blog (and website) today and this post is exactly what I needed to read right now. I’ve been trying to figure out where I want to take my photography recently and this has made me realise I haven’t been shooting what I want to shoot. Time for change!!
Thank you for posting this.
Alan
P.S. Your work is beautiful!
P.P.S. The link to your twitter feed in the sidebar is wrong 🙂
Hey!
I just came across your blog and LOVE<LOVE<LOVE the pointers!!! Especially the first one! YOu have no idea how much you have helped:)
Thank you so much for putting into words all the things I forget that are so very critical! I’m printing this out to hang up in my office! Also will be signing up for the first workshop I can!
Hi Cheryl,
I was feeling frustrated because my daughter (almost 3 years old) often covers her face if she sees anybody with a camera around. Your words are inspiring and reminded me that I should focus on personality shining through photographs instead of going for the boring, average portrait.
Thanks again for the extra motivation!
Pamela Topping
Sage advice……Thank you 🙂
“Learn to say “I’m a photographer” out loud with a straight face. If you can’t say it and believe it, you can’t expect anyone else to, either.” Wow. I needed this. Thanks for all the tips CJ.
Best Regards,
Jeff
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12449763@N04/
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Read your blog over at The Online Photographer and loved it so much I printed it out and pinned it up next to my desk. Thank you! Kirk
I just discovered your work and voice through a friend. It is beautiful. This post is wonderful. I am going to share this on twitter. It is too valuable not to. Thanks for sharing.
DB
Dang. That helps so much to confirm and strengthen my path as a photographer. Thanks.
I’m so glad someone passed this on to me. It’s something all photographers need to read and be reminded of over and over!
Excellent points… Thanks!
Great read, just made my day 🙂
Great blog. Such a good perspective on it all. Also found this really motivational….cheers
Really great advise and insight. Thank you for this, it gave me a new perspective.
Hi Cheryl, thanks for an inspiring blog post! Looking forward to read your blog. Best regards!
Thank you so much for sharing your exquisite images and your intuitive advice. Your whole website is very inspiring – you are a remarkable and talented woman!
I feel inspired to try new things photographically…eventually I will find the *right* path!
Thanks again 🙂
Kate
dear lord, thats good stuff.
Cheryl – Thank you for sharing these words!
Zack -Thank you for bringing Cheryl’s words to my attention!
Wonderful post. 🙂
Really need to take this onboard: The best thing your technique can do is not call attention to itself. Never let your technique upstage your subject.
I get so wrapped in getting a photo ‘technically’ exposed correctly, ‘technically’ focussed correctly, ‘technically’ processed correctly that i forget to take a photo of a good subject. 😦
– Matt
Nice Advice, yes sr!
My favourite one is:
Accept critique, but don’t apply it blindly. Just because someone said it does not make it so.
Sometime ago, I made this mistake. Somebody says something about my photographs and then, everyday and every moment, taking a photo I was pressured on (by myself). The most important thing is to know your own style, don’t make effort about opinions, and take it on. Just reinvent yourself trying to save what is about technique and what is about art.
Regards from Barcelona (and excuse my english if something is weird :).
wow….gotta thank Zack Arias for turning me on to your words of wisdom. Refreshing and pithy. count me in as a subscriber.
Great advice, nice see someone actually write it up!
Really great thoughts and advice. Think I will read it often to push my reset button. So very true and great for the artist’s heart. Thank you!
This is fantastic advice! 🙂 and I love that you still shoot film. Gorgeous!
I’d have to make the “Accept critique” one 2-part. One part emphasizing the value of truly considering critique/opinion. The other part saying what you already said.
+ “If you don’t want opinions on your work, disable commenting for that image/site.”
Thank you for sharing this awesome tips list. I needed to read this today! Wonderful words of wisdom!
Well said, and good for me to hear (read) today.
Best–
Michael
Excellent post and very well presented. This post is something that every aspiring and working photographer needs to read. Thank you for taking the time to share this with us!
James Smith
All great advice.
“Learn to say “I’m a photographer” out loud with a straight face.”
So true. I find myself time and time again saying, “I enjoy photography instead of “I’m a photographer.”
I’m gradually getting there.
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Very nice and true words of wisdom.
Thanks
Excellent article for novice or pro! Key: “be yourself” and you will inspire others and yourself, it will surprise you.
Thanks very much for sharing, I wish you the best of lucks for your blog, you have one more reader already.
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What a fantastic post ! Thank you!
Beautiful and honest. Love it.
Some excellent points here and a great start to a new blog. I am a professional photographer and I often try to give advice along these lines, but I find quite frequently that people aren’t willing to listen or adopt tried and tested concepts like these for furthering their photography. I think this is often because many people are getting a lot of bad advice these days on internet forums etc.
Thankyou for this, it is always good to hear what this article contains.
Hi Guys
Great advice about limiting kit, should echo those thoughts for Photoshop tools and technique – there’s a big difference between being a photographer and being a digital image manipulator.
Everything else is on the button too.
Best
Alan
Just fantastic advice! thanks for writing this. And am also delighted to have found your blog/site/Twitter.
This particular article is a terrific inspiration on the fundamentals of being a photographer. Refreshing to read it, especially as how we are relentlessly assaulted and distracted by the gear market these days.
Cheers.
Great post! I love the solid, simple advice.
great job here…. words all should heed.
words of wisdom!
Thank-you so much!
What great advice…muchly needed right now!
How inspiring and motivational!
Wow…I will be referring back over and over again…thank-you!
Wow, great words of wisdom. Found your blog from a link on a friend’s twitter feed, I will definitely be checking back often, thanks for the advice!
Best advice I think I’ve ever read on Photography. I really needed to hear what you had to say. Thanks for posting this. I think I will be re-reading this many times.
Well written & great perspective. My mantra too…and I enjoy striving with my P & S! You are inspirational!
Thanks for a great article. This should be given out with every camera sold.
Thank you so much for this.
Like others that posted here, I’m printing this out and putting it on my wall.
Namaste,
Robb
Great pose, thanks for sharing!
Thankyou!! What a wonderful post!!
Great great article! Thank you for sharing…these are definitely things that I need to remember!
Definitely advice to respect. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
thank you for these words of wisdom.
i especially resonate with .. say no. 😉
Thank you its just what I needed to read today!
Wow! That is amazing advice. I feel inspired and it has made me do some introspection…
Excellent words of wisdom for all photographers regardless of ability. Keep up the great work.
Great Post.
Too true….
Following Mike’s link on TOP, I couldn’t not tell you how true your words are. All to often we get distracted and don’t fill our frames with what we want to say.
Thank You so much for this inspiring post.
All the best to you.
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Thank you! So beautifully said!
Hi Cheryl…
Many times, as artists, we forget why we started in the first place. We get caught up in the successes and failures of being photographers and forget that it’s not about us; it’s about the client, the moment, and the feelings.
Thank you for such great “words of wisdom”! I’d like to print this out and display it in my photography class at college, if that’s alright.
Thanks again!
Nate, thanks for the compliment. Please do feel free to display it. Always happy to help.
– CJ
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Hi Cheryl,
Thank you for these wise words. I am the President of the Montreal Camera Club and some of the points you make are the very same points I try to convey to our members, especially the new ones. I would like to be able to print this and hand it out at our meeting (with your permission).
John, absolutely. Please feel free, and I’m glad to contribute.
– CJ
Excellent portraits and inspires to do more of film. Thanks for the advise, I’am in no competition and will enjoy my journey.
-srikanth Bussireddy
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Love this blog. Funny how things come along at the exact time it’s needed. I need this.
Need to hear this every now and then, no matter how experienced you are. Thanks.
Excellent words…and Great advice! We should take them to heart!
Thanks, PhotoDino!
BTW, if you don’t mind, I’ve added your wonderful advice article to my new blog…I think it’s a great addition. If you’d rather I didn’t use it, just let me know and I’ll delete it.
check it out here…
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Thanks again, Larry
Nice advice and a way to not veer from the path.
As a somewhat new photog myself. I find it easy to get hooked into this or that advice or you should buy this or that. I just continue to fight the urge, grow at my own pace and shoot what I find interesting. yeah it is nice to have encouragement or wow! that shot is amazing, but all in all. I’m not doing for them, I’m doing it for myself. A way to express myself. Without your own vision or understanding of what speaks to you…you have lost the integrity of the shot and yourself.
This page deserves a bookmark- excellent thoughts and timeless too.
Wow! You really cut through to the truth!
Thanks!
Adrien
I feel like I should print this and put it on my bathroom mirror. Thank you.
Thank you for this very inspiring post. You opened my eyes, my heart and my mind.
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“Never compare your journey with someone else’s. It’s a marathon with no finish line. Someone else may start out faster than you, may seem to progress more quickly than you, but every runner has his own pace. Your journey is your journey, not a competition. You will never “arrive”. No one ever does.”
This isn’t just great advice for photography, it’s great advice for life, no matter what journey you’re taken.
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So true especially in these very trying time……
Love this post. Good words and advice to share. Thank you.
Good, good, good, good, good. Thanks!
Thanks so much for this, I really needed to read this today.
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wise words.
people get caught up in gear and technique, spend thousands on bodies and lenses and lights, refine their post-processing technique so they have the sharpest photos… but of what?
you are an inspiration and incredible
your images speak to my heart and my soul
thank you so much for this post
I am a film photographer making a return to film after 5 years of digital
and your words and your art have just renewed my spirit and conviction
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My name is Nick
and
“I am a photographer!”
ooops, great words by the way.
Some of the wisest words I read in a long time. Bravo!
Guy
I followed Darwin Wiggett’s lead and came over to your blog. Wonderful advice. I look forward to more of your blog.
I see in your beautiful photographs a light touch, a freshness and a calm urgency. I don’t know if that makes sense. I am a grain person also (Tri-x in Rodinal ). Keep on posting your photos so I can look and learn.
Gary Haigh
Oz
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Thank you for this great words. I traslate it in italian lenguage and post it on my blog. Thank you again.
thank you for these words of advice 🙂 a lot things i have to constantly remind myself about as someone who is still trying to find my vision.
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Hi! These are great! I am just starting out and it is sometimes hard to remember that it is ok not to look like everyone else!
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Great insight Thanks for the emotional booster!
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Wow. Your wisdom is a God sent. I just took a lighting class a few weeks ago and came away with a whole new arsenal. Whoever, there was a canon rep there with all the latest cameras. I am shooting with a Pentax K100D. For the past several weeks now I have been looking and scheming how to buy a new 5D mark ii. Your words help me to remember that it is not the tools we have that make the photos, its the 12 inches behind the camera. Thanks for your wisdom.
Your pieces of advice are truly enlightening. I am new to the world of photography and I am thankful I was able to read this early on. It is true that frustration is a big part of this passion when you are still learning from scratch. What hit me the most is to bring out your own style, learn from within, not by comparing your works to others.
Truely inspirational…as budding photographer! I am currently addicted to your site!
I know it has been said before but this is exactly what I needed to hear. Frustration is pushing me further. 🙂 Thanks so much!
The best “noodling-the-web-lunchtime” I’ve had in ages. Wonderful stuff! (ps. Do you ingest or inject your film?)
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The words: photographer, photo, camera, equipment can be substituted with other words [no, I am not talking about the hairdressers blower] like emotions, relationship, friendship…
This article (I can’t get a better term) is much more then “words of wisdom for new aspiring photographers”. Thanks!
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Great words. Thanks for sharing this!
Wonderful advice! It really makes you take a moment and think about yourself as a photographer and focusing on your own skills and art first and foremost.
thank you. i got nothing better than that
j
Just wow – this has made me take a good and hard look at myself and what I am looking for from my love of photography.
I love this!! I want to print it out and hang it on my mirror (or laptop, I look at that more). Thank you for this.
This is a great read- thanks for sharing this! You inspire me!
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well said!
why photography alone?
this is true for almost all kinds of art.
my engineering prof tells me that the difference between arts and engineering is that engineering is all about measurements and numbers and precision and teamwork to create a good product for all audiences
art is different – its about feelings and effects and a single person’s style and creating a work perfect product for a smaller set of audience but more importantly, experiencing the feeling of digging inside our emotions and accurately portraying them.
You have given a very good advice for the second one. Its not a great money maker, but it is required to make a fine artist.
Actually, Kum, I would disagree. Photography that is made sincerely and comes from the individual’s experience and perspective can be a great money maker. The best way to ensure financial frustration as a photographer is to produce work that looks like everyone else’s.
Beautiful words of wisdom!
I request your permission to ‘echo’ your words on my blog with credit and link.
Please feel free to share.
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These are great words! Thank you! Needed to hear this today… rethinking who I am and what I’m about!
Jason
Good article! I read it translated to Spanish at http://www.moccablog.com/article/701/lo-que-todo-aspirante-a-fotografo-debe-saber. Strong opinions, nice recommendations.
the blog is good i like it very mcuh
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I thought I was a dinosaur, living in the dark ages. Still not wanting to let go of my 35mm. I’ve been told I should go to digital because I can see right then if I got “my picture”. Call me old fashioned, wasteful or whatever. But the part of using a 35mm is it makes me shoot from the heart. Take my time think about that persons personality, shoot when then have no idea I’m snapping away. This has been a love of mine for over half my life. Capturing a person or persons inner spirit. My niece sent me this site and I’m grateful to her. I have been telling her how I just can’t go to digital. She takes amazing pictures with her digital camera. I guess it just comes down to what is best for the photographer. Thank you for your wisdom and for sharing it to those of us that really needed to hear.
Best regards Tammy
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I was feeling kind of low. Thanks for the post.
Hi Cheryl
I’m not a regular regular reader of your blog, I just stubled on this by accident and just wanted to say how much i liked it. It’s very inspiring. Especially the first one struck a chord with me about how “style is a voice not a prop or an action”. I still have ways to go to find that elusive style of mine, but I think these words of wisdom will help me along the way.
Thanks Tomi
Hi there again:)
As for the problem with the exposure (green dots), it has been solved in a simply way, I found out that my card reader was faulty and in some way transmitted wrong tones to the computer.
As for your blog, I am very glad to be the one of few people who discoverd it by chance online. Thanks for your well balanced in wisdom words to all those who deserve to be called possionate photographers.
Tomek
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Fabulous advice. Now unless you are super thick-skinned, vacuous, see-through transparent & a complete ‘tick all the boxes to move on’ drone … soak it up and reacquaint yourself with it on a regular basis. Keep it REAL !!
Too many people are so coldly formulaic with their advice about how to conduct and brand / market yourself in 2011 – “Do this and that … and do it in a particular (well proven) way, appeal to the masses, the lowest common denominator is correct – not you. Adopt the latest trendy style …. and ditch it and move onto the next one just as fast. Emulate rather than innovate.”
Err NO !!! (the above = selling out early, losing your soul and having the ability to be VERY controlled and detached) … as sure way to lose the passion for what you do REAL FAST.
you inspire me! thank you so much, cheryl! looking forward to work with you through your online critique session.
Great article. Especially the second last paragraph about the endless marathon. SO true!!! There’s a lot of stuff here that they simply don’t teach at school.
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What a great way to start your blog! This is amazing and has changed the way I see photography.
Great advice and inspiring quotes. Thanks for all that 🙂
This totally fits your personality, CJ! Hope to see you soon.
Lovely post and good words about being a photographer.. even for the experienced!!! We can not be reminded enough!!
You said so many things that rang true to me. This was well written and very insightful! Thank you
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