Monthly Archives: January 2013
Happy New Year!
Regular readers to my blog may have noticed I’ve been a bit quiet in the last few months, so sorry for that. I have been regularly updating this blog for the last two years without stop, so I kinda figured I deserved a little break during the winter. Am I forgiven?
Hopefully so, because I have a load of great stuff planned for 2013!
New Year is always a great time for someone who’s as analytical and inward thinking as me. I always spend way too much time thinking about the past year, what was awesome, what didn’t go so well, and what things I have to look forward to and which areas I need to make the biggest changes.
Setting good photography goals is easy, just remember to make them genuine, realistic and useful. Set yourself goals that matter. Not wishy washy ones that don’t challenge you, and not hugely ambitious ones you know you will give up on by Easter.
So this is what I’ve got, these are my “big five” goals for 2013.
More Personal Work
My absolute single biggest regret of 2012 was that I just didn’t shoot, share or invest in a lot of personal work. By that I mean, I just didn’t pay much attention to good times with family, day trips, memories, or even small or long term personal photography projects. All I shot last year was concentrated on weddings and stock photography. In 2013, I plan todo more wedding and portrait work, but balance this out with more personal photos that I can enjoy and experiment with.
More Sharing And Printing
Looking through all the photos I took last year, I probably only shared via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc, maybe 1 photo for every 100 I shot. I put so much effort in with coming up with ideas, spending ages shooting and editing photos, to then just leave them on my computer where no one can see them.…
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With years of experience in landscape and commercial still life photography, his focus now lies on capturing creative, natural and beautiful fashion and lifestyle portraiture, as well as a fun, relaxed approach to photojournalistic wedding photography.
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