“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.”
David Bailey
Continuing series of photography tips for beginners, here are 4 advices from Professional Photographers in Los Angeles that will help you hone in on your skills.
The full interview is available of YOUTUBE. For your convenience, here is the transcript of it as well.
Julia Mindar @juliamindar_photography : Do not send raw pictures. This way they gonna be on the Facebook, they gonna be on Instagram, they will sign you as their photographer and if you have a certain editing style as I have, you deal with a little irritation ’cause everyone choose a picture. You choose it, you can choose a bad picture, they could add an Instagram filter on that and they’ll say it’s your work and ruin your style, your reputation so like people are asking all the time, “Do I get all the pictures from the shoot?” What I do, I say, “I can send proofs, the small images they won’t be able to post anywhere so they can choose some pictures they want to edit it for me to edit. Usually I just say that I can send all images from the shoot because my editing style is my signature, it’s my image, this is my reputation and I can do it.
Jon Sams @jonsams : So when I started out I was looking at a lot of behind the scenes videos. I was ripping pages out of magazines, I was zooming in really closely to the model of the subjects eyes to see what light modifiers they were using. You can look at an image and deconstruct how it was created and try it out for yourself.
Dee @trill_imagery : Don’t listen to outsiders, what other people have to say about your art. No one can tell you how to create your art, you know? Will it be to other people like you? Yes and no but it’s your art so that’s one of the main things that I tell people to not get discouraged about how someone may feel about your work. That’s your work, so you the artist here.
Mois @moisnomois: My main advice to photographers just starting out would be don’t listen to what anyone says, haters gonna hate, potatoes gonna potate.
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