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Your Photos Are Boring

Sorry, someone had to say it.

Your photos are predictable. Your insights are recycled. You don’t bring surprise with you when you come back from working on location.

That’s why people are ignoring you.

Which used to be fine, because people used to not be able to find other photographers. You could just sit back on your past work, or your agent, or your portfolio. But that half-price sale on attention is now over.

The only path left is to lean out of the edge and become interesting, noteworthy and yes, remarkable.

If the above words don’t sound like mine, it’s because…[click the ‘continue reading’ link below]—
…they’re not. They’re the words of marketing guru Seth Godin remixed with a couple of choice photography terms here and there. But they got your attention I bet. They certainly got mine. I took them to heart. This sort of brutal honest point keeps me on my toes. Reminds me to innovate, create, differentiate. There are a million photo gigs out there and, more often than not, getting that phone call requires that we first suck it up and do some remarkable work.

[I’ve done this little word play trick before and it was equally evocative… Read it over here. Thanks Seth.]

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  1. Lorie Borroel says:
    September 29, 2014 at 4:17 pm

    Jasa Iklan Facebook Terbaik Pada pagi hari yang cerah ini, saya posting artikel baru yang membahas Jasa Iklan Facebook. Iklan Facebook adalah salah satu iklan yang paling populer di Social Media, banyak perusahaan besar yang memasang Iklannya di Facebook agar perusahaan itu bisa mendapatkan Klien dari Facebook. berapakah pengguna facebook perHari? tentunya sangat banyak yaitu lebih dari 10.000 orang, bayangkan setiap hari Usaha anda akan meningkat, dan penghasilan anda semakin naik.

  2. Myrta Grdina says:
    September 21, 2014 at 3:51 am

    Relax and no work!

  3. Jon Daste says:
    January 8, 2013 at 6:57 am

    Not a great deal of a unhealthy article, ended it happen compel many your calculate and energy to take addicted to account it?

  4. Theola Jarboe says:
    January 5, 2013 at 9:04 am

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  5. Nat Thompson says:
    June 1, 2010 at 10:06 am

    Yeah this is true….I remember the first time I visited the site..going ahhh what a let down. But some really good shooters still post on there.

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