Be Undeniably Good (or 10,000 Hours)
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Photography is one of the things in life I have a real passion for. I could spend every day taking pictures all day. I am making no attempt whatsoever to make my living at it however. But I sure wouldn’t mind. I have been paid to do it a few times and it felt pretty good. Plus, cameras are just cool…
Anyway, there are a ton of links to the left here of photographers. I waste a lot of time looking at pictures. But It’s not really waste. Not to me. Pictures (moving and otherwise) are how I’ve tried (and mostly succeeded) to make my living for the last half decade or so.
If you look in the “READ OFTEN” section there is a blog by a fellow named Chase Jarvis. He’s a pretty well known photographer and I dig his blog and his work.
I like this little article. I think it applies to most anything in life. Any passion or pursuit. Not strictly photography.
Thought I would share…
-Staley Out
No. 1 — December 11th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I remember back in the day before digital camera’s, and I would take the pictures, and put them in that bolack bag to unreel the film, then place it into the solutions.
Then I took them out and looked at them, and picked and chose which ones I wanted to spend my money on to develop.
Then I would take the negative push it into the projector, and place it down onto the paper, decide how many seconds I wanted to develop for, then place the picture down and hit the timer.
Then I would proceed to take that blank slip of paper, and put it through the 3 solutions, watching, deciding when I wanted to hit it with the stop.
There was such a magic to it, I think digital photography and photoshop are a much greater expirience, but everyone should develop film at least once.
No. 2 — December 12th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Good article. We should all be so dedicated to everything we do.
No. 3 — December 18th, 2008 at 5:32 am
First of all congratulation for such a great site. I learned a lot reading article here today. I will make sure i visit this site once a day so i can learn more.
No. 4 — December 20th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I read Chase’s blog as well.
He does some great work.
Really enjoyed that post a lot.
I think it helped to verify the photographic community as more than just a bunch of artists in a hurry.