I promise to share more pictures of Egypt soon…. very very soon. but first, I wanted to share this hugely inspirational video. i know a lot of photographers and creatives out there follow this blog. maybe some of you are just starting out, maybe some of you followed the beginning photography articles i wrote for www.sliceoflemon.com. maybe some of you are advanced creatives but are in a lull.
maybe some of you just need reminding of where you came from… where all of us came from or still are. it lasts just a tiny minute, so take a second and watch.
Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.
So if you’re frustrated with your work right now, if you know it’s not what you aspire it to be, Dont.Give.Up. what that really means is that you have the potential to be incredible. You are already on that path. You are already on the journey, dont hop off the train while it’s moving. pull your camera out, or whatever media you use to be creative and make whatever you can. i dont care if all you have is your iphone, shoot something, edit something, create something, even if it is just for yourself, and you never show anyone else.
shoot everyday. make something every.single.day. the camera should be an extension of your hands. if you dont know what that means, then you are probably still looking with your eyes for the right buttons to push. when you know your camera, you dont need to look. when your camera is part of you you can walk into a room and already know what ISO to use, what aperture to use, and what shutter speed give or take a couple hundredths of a second. you already know what your image will look like without looking at the LCD screen. you’ll begin to ‘see’ photographs in the world even when you dont have your camera- the term “oh that would be a great shot” start to happen 10, 20, 30 times a day. you’ll know what ‘good light’ is and be able to seek it out, knowing where it will be before you even turn the corner.
YOU and YOUR WORK are just around the corner…
story told by incredible Ira Glass, edited by David Shiyang Liu