Sometimes I feel like I am not doing the right things to better my shooting. I wonder if I am shooting the right pictures at the correct moments. I wonder if my photos have any meaning, and if they in fact, move anyone or tell the right stories in certain situations. My mind starts racing a million times the normal capacity and I get confused.
I guess I get this way when I am in a rut. And I am too hard on myself because my biggest competition has always been, and will always be: myself.
I don’t know what it is, but I thought this photo summed up how I have been feeling lately. Wondering if what I’ve been doing and what I am doing is “right.”
In this case, do either of them think they are doing the right thing? Catching nothing? Catching a players helmet instead of the ball? Who knows. I do know that they will figure out they were both wrong when they see the photo. But in my case, I guess I’ll never know and that’s what drives me to make better pictures day after day.
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. Regardless of my comparison, it’s sweet.
Hey Patrick, If it helps. At first I didn’t see the entire image and then when I saw it that little voice inside said, Oh wow. Good catch and even better job.
Scott
I agree. You’re supposed to put crap photos up with emo posts.
Feeling this way is nothing new. We all have these moments, and it you don’t then I’d say you aren’t growing as a person, photog, etc. I remember back in 1983, I was speaking at a PJ workshop at USU put on by Nelson Wadsworth. There were several heavyweight photogs there from around the country and the very things you are thinking came up in conversation. We all decided it was normal and that most photogs are a very insecure person because we are wondering the following: Am I any good?, Was I ever any good?, do I have any talent?.
Keep questioning yourself, work harder on the things that need improvement, and never stop asking yourself the above questions!
“Am I any good?, Was I ever any good?, do I have any talent?”
Shoot man… that is a daily internal dialogue with me.