But What Have You Created?

seth godin headYes, I know you’re a master of lighting, that you’ve used every light modifier known, that you’ve been going to PhotoPlus for ten years, that you were one of the first bloggers, you used Twitter before it was cool and you can gauge light temperature in your sleep. Yes, I know that you sit in front of your computer reminding other photographers that they’re using the wrong gear for this job or that job.

But what have you made? Where are your pictures hanging? Where are your campaigns? Your commercials? What about your new book or your portfolio? What have you done with your skills that has been worthy of criticism, that moved the dial and that changed the world?

Go, do that.
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The above is a slightly modified cut and paste from this Seth Godin post to make it more relevant for our own industry. Seth is a wizard. We all need a kick in the rear. Let this be yours.

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But What Have You Created?

  1. What have I created? Well I threw all that camera gear aside and started to make Lumen Prints, using photographic paper and the sun to capture images that brought me down to mother earth from that digital jet stream. Watch a quick video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6bd6Y9UE0g

    I also have created some images with models that I have never seen before and wanted to share with the world. Check my model work here: http://iminphotos.com/Models.html

  4. You are so right. The Internet has bred a whole generation of know it all’s called “Internet Photographers”. They spend their life on the net instead of getting out and actually making images.

    Of course there is nothing new about the world of talkers vs. the world of doers.

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