"When it comes to humility,I'm the greatest."
BULLWINKLE
"If I had humility, I'd be perfect."
TED TURNER
Two indicators of roughin' it:
"If I had humility, I'd be perfect."
TED TURNER
Two indicators of roughin' it:
- bad breath (Hhhhhhoooowww do you DOooo)
- lack of humility (Me, Me, Me, Me, moi, moi, mine all mine)
It wigs me out to observe artists boast about the latest & greatest DVD's, slideshows, newest work, biggest camera, most lucrative budget, ridiculously expensive products without recognizing how much its ruining our industry. How did marketing get lost in a cycle of elitist habits?
I read a blog post a while back by a photographer who shall remain nameless. Obviously talented, Mr. Nameless seems like a cool guy, nice website, great work. Except that he tells people how famous he is, repeatedly, in his blog. Its all so pretty and wedding-ish until these tarty ego tidbits smear the overall voice. The other day I went off on a tangent to Ray (my fiance) about not liking the ego in this industry, how bad its getting, when he said something really interesting. He just dumped a 'ray-ism' on me. Ray told me: 'Just be the humble professional.'
No offense meant to bust out decent & talented photogs, but for heaven's sake when did photographers become totally self-centered? My passion is photography in every way, but someone hit me with a frying pan if get too cocky.
Does this sound humbly professional to you? "I showed Chris my work and he made my day by asking, “Wow, am I sitting next to someone famous?” I am not putting down less expensive photographers, or people that don’t have the budget to spend more. It is just that I feel, (and have been told numerous times) that my images and experience speak for themselves."
I read a blog post a while back by a photographer who shall remain nameless. Obviously talented, Mr. Nameless seems like a cool guy, nice website, great work. Except that he tells people how famous he is, repeatedly, in his blog. Its all so pretty and wedding-ish until these tarty ego tidbits smear the overall voice. The other day I went off on a tangent to Ray (my fiance) about not liking the ego in this industry, how bad its getting, when he said something really interesting. He just dumped a 'ray-ism' on me. Ray told me: 'Just be the humble professional.'
No offense meant to bust out decent & talented photogs, but for heaven's sake when did photographers become totally self-centered? My passion is photography in every way, but someone hit me with a frying pan if get too cocky.
Does this sound humbly professional to you? "I showed Chris my work and he made my day by asking, “Wow, am I sitting next to someone famous?” I am not putting down less expensive photographers, or people that don’t have the budget to spend more. It is just that I feel, (and have been told numerous times) that my images and experience speak for themselves."
2 comments:
The problem with photographers (and I've been one for 12 years) is that they've all been so many places, photographed so many people, rubbed elbows with so many different crowds, and more importantly: have so many fun and interesting stories to tell, they begin to believe that THEY are the interesting ones, not the people they've photographed...We, as professional photographers, need to remember that those cool things we feel we're part of, really belong to those we're capturing images of...Then, after we figure this out, we can try to do interesting things on our time off...and live a little ourselves...
said like a true photographer! :-)
hugs,
april
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