Watch This BEFORE You Commit to PHOTOGRAPHY
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2023
- In this video, I'll share with you what happened to me when I nearly ruined my photography career. After years of practice and hard work, I was about to reach my goal of becoming a professional photographer. But that all changed when I made a controversial decision that nearly destroyed my career.
If you're thinking of starting a photography business, be sure to watch this video before you make any major decisions. I'll share with you everything that went wrong, and how I nearly lost everything because of it. By watching this video, you'll be able to avoid some of the same mistakes I made and achieve your photography dreams!
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For those wanting more details on my career change, I have a short free video here, and a longer full video for Patreons www.patreon.com/tinhouse
i bartended last week to help pay some bills. Im still a photographer, and always will be. its smarter to adapt than to die on a hill of a restrictive career identity
I really enjoy the distinction you draw between being a professional photographer and being a CZcams photographer; that's something I haven't seen anywhere else.
I pursued photography professionally for a few years, but just events/weddings, nothing through an agency dealing with brands.
But doing it for money killed the joy for me, so I changed gears and do photography mostly as a hobby now.
I probably shoot more today than I did back then. I certainly have a nicer kit nowadays than I did when I was a working photographer and had to justify every purchase.
The big reason I watch you is because you're a working photographer.After watching this Video I realize I need to stop and re-evalutae my relation to photography.
I totally relate in the whole “can’t record with others around” thing. It’s tough! But forcing myself to do in front of people I know and don’t know is the only way I’ve found to grow out of it. Excited for your new shift in life! Excited to see what’s next
You are truly one of the most refreshingly honest person I have ever come across. So much of what you say resonates with me and my journey as a photographer. I come here for therapy more than anything else. Thank you for doing you without apology. It’s both inspirational and liberating.
Thanks for being genuine Scott. Not a lot of people admit they also love the prestige that comes with their work. 😄
Good luck in your new adventures! It's great you're continuing with CZcams. 🤩
I am glad you have decided to stay a photographer with a CZcams hussle; I enjoy your unique perspective on it. I like photography as it has gotten me to look at the world differently than before, but I like to hear other people's thoughts on the different aspects of it; there are only so many landscape and street photographers you can listen to. Keep up the great work, and thanks for keeping things fresh.
You continue to inspire me and I wish you all the best with your career change. As long as you're happy that's the main thing.
I love your videos man. I’m soooo glad you aren’t quitting. At either! Thx, Scott .
My new FAVORITE channel
I've only found you while I was laid up, and I've been binge watching your old vids along with your new content. I love how you're honest with us and yourself! I've been going through something similar and trying to find what makes me happy. I'm glad you realized you're a photographer and you've switched gears! I think you're on a positive path! Cuddos!
I am still a working professional photographer I put CZcams videos together out of the kindness of my heart so that others can enjoy the glory that I have experienced in photography and go out and try to experience it for themselves!
Everything is clearer now. Thanks mate! 💯
All sounds great Scott , looking forward to seeing your journey and the adventures ahead.
All the best mate with your new direction.
I love your channel because you exude honesty. Thanks.
I enjoyed this channel just as much when it was more infrequent in the early, four-digit subscriber days. Grateful for anything you have the time and energy to share.
Good luck with the evolution of your career mate, also love that you have stripped away the things that weren’t making you happy and started over. Your channel has been great, super helpful photo / career advice with none of the fluff.
I’m excited for you! A shift in career can make your creativity erupt into new ways.
Best of luck on your new career path
Congrats! Following your passion will always be a well chosen path
Sounds great! Mixing it up. Best of luck
Congratulations, Scott! You're the best and I'm very fortunate I had a chance to work with you closely! Good luck with all your new beginnings! 🎉
I'm not a professional photographer, I take photos for my work (academic) and for fun. However I really enjoy your perspective on this career and especially your "stream of consciousness" over the last few weeks. Honest advice for real life, based on your personal experience - gold! Keep doing you 🙂
Funny that this channel exploded right around the time I was going through a similar crisis and I really appreciate your insights. I'm still trying to integrate all the different parts of me to find the one crazy career I'm really built for
This was quite a ramble, only to end up where you started 😄😉
My current career is within the fire safety industry, I used to be in the fire service, loved that! doing what I do now pays well, but, I don't love it as much; its become a job. I do however love photography, everything about it, both film and digital. It would be great to take a break from what I currently do and either become an assistant for a commercial studio to learn the industry in greater depth. So much about your journey resonates with me as an individual (and probably so many others), definitely food for thought and re-evaluating where I am and where I want to be. Love your honesty and direct approach. Good luck for the future it sounds as if you have found that next step forward
Thanks for Sharing your feelings
Well one thing is certain for me. I’m glad you decided to go at YouTubing hard for a month cause I don’t think I would have discovered you if you hadn’t. Been going through the back catalog of your videos and I’ve learned loads from you. I’m a photography and youtube content creator hobbyist with a smallish niche channel and you have definitely facilitated improvement for me!
I really enjoyed the break-aways and cuts you incorporated into this video. It gave a bit more energy and dynamic to your usual format. You seem to be good at everything you do. Keep rockin' it!
Thanks. Thought id try something new. Also used a tiny point a shoot camera rather than a 6k raw video cam
@@TinHouseStudioUK GOD BLESS THE POINT AND SHOOT! I learned everything I know about photography with my Lil' Blue. Welcome to The Little Rascals - The He Man Women Haters Club No gurlz allowed Official Number 410. I, ______, a member of the he-man woman haters club in good standing, do solemnly swear to: be a he-man and hate women, and not play with them or touch them unless I have to, and especially never fall in love. And, if I do, may I die painfully and slowly and suffer for hours or until I scream bloody murder. And how!
Focus and recompose. Good plan. I’ll still be watching.
Th aka for every video brother! You sounds like you have flu. I am going to miss the frecuente videos. Bests regards from a Venezuelan follower in Panama!
Thank you, from time to time is good to just try something new and see how it goes :) just reboot yourself
Just as you discovered that you love photography, and that you "are" a photographer when you stopped, so too does this "aha" apply to so many other things in life, including relationships. The key of course is either 1) be 100% sure that when you stop/quit something that you're certain or 2) always leave an opening to return (the idea of not burning bridges).
And I'll share another related idea... when people introduce themselves to strangers, they typically describe those things first that are most meaningful to them in terms of their identy.. Like, "I'm a food and lifestyle photographer in the UK, married with three kids, and I live near xxx". I say this because I had a funny experience with a client of mine. i should first say that I had a 30 year career as an engineer/manager and all the while had photography only as a hobby. After I retired I turned that into a part-time job (could be full-time but I don't want all the work). So a client was talking to me and described me as an "artist". internally I bristled a bit as i've always thought of myself an engineer, even in retirement. It's not that I think less of an artist, but that's just who I was in my own mine. So YOU are a photographer...and you realized the reality and importance of that when you temporarily stopped.
All the best!
New shirt?
If you want to keep making videos I'll continue watching them. Would love to see some of your film stuff which I know is not your commercial stuff but every now and then maybe?
Never take life too seriously. It all shows up in the moment -just like CZcams. Everything else is just conjecture. Good luck and thanks for the insight into your life.
Great stuff, yes if you aint going forwards you're going backwards as there is no time for standing still and the thoughts of retirement never will enter your mind. Retirement is for those that do not have a vision, or a passion for life. Just do it, and move on. Its all about reinvention at every level. :) Cheers...
You have the experience. The people which followed you know. So yeah, your advice is still valid. Doesn’t matter what you are doing now.
Hi Scott, I am an amateur photographer and have zero desire or intentions of being a professional photographer. The reasons I watch and follow your video's is yes I find the inside track on a professional photographers no bullshit reality check on the business fascinating, but mostly frankly for your no bullshit approach to life which is the main appeal. I watch and love the likes of Rick Beato, not because he is a professional now "youtuber", but because of his amazing appreciation for music and his unique character and passion for the subject. Much like Rick, the same for you and several others, I would listen to him if he went off and spoke about different things in life because I value the way he looks at things, and I intuit that if you made a video about something other than photography, I would find that interesting and a perspective worthy of consideration. Getting back to photography for a minute, for me it's totally personal, and my photographs are meaningful purely on that personal level; they engage me more and draw me to the moments and beauty of my life. And of course improving my technical and compositional skills makes it all the more enjoyable.That's what brought me here, but really I stay for listening to you as a person, a no bullshit person with great stories and perspectives much like Rick for example.
As a silly suggestion that you most probably would balk at, I would challenge you to go off and make a video about something else other than photography. For me the value of platforms such as youtube and others like Rumble and Odysee (which are far more liberal in honoring the outrageous notion of freedom of speech) - is the ability to find cool people who if they naturally came in to your life, you would want to be friends with. And frankly, there really aren't that many no bullshit, genuine and thinking honest non partisan people with life experience, who have an unfiltered way of looking at the world. For me as a 49 year old man whose abilities have been severely limited by ongoing chronic pain, there is really very, very few people who truly are 'no bullshit artists' - to coin a phrase. Another may be Roger Waters, who despite his left leaning politics which make no difference to me, has the gift of plainly speaking his mind in the most human way. I suspect like most people, politics has become so toxic that it sickens me, yet I will still listen to left or right leaning people if they have a genuine, grounded human perspective on what they talk about. I think that people like these in which I include you of course are in very short supply, and hold tremendous value for more matured and thinking demographic like myself.
I'm certainly not trying to blow smoke up your or mine arse, but there it is; a slighly different approach that you may or may not have thought of. Of course it could be considered an Egoistic thing, but if you're the kind of man I think you are much like Rick and Roger, I think you could easily put that notion far down the list in it's rightful place. Like Thom Yorks says - everything in it's right place. So there you go - I just like you, like I like my close friends for the straight talking non bullshitters in a funny way that they are. Gonzalo Lira for example if you don't know him, is a Chilean national with a Ukrainian wife who is living in Kharkiv in Ukraine and has been speaking out fearlessly against the Zelensky regime, despite being firmly under the yolk of the SBU, but spoke his mind regardless with disarming no bullshit dialogs, and his own uncensored and ostensibly subversive point of view. He was incredibly engaging and open in his views, that have now seen him dragged off into some Ukrainian dark cell, from which it's plausible he may be 'disappeared' from, or found with bullet in his skull, yet his fearlessness was intoxicating, and that kind of fearlessnes is under grave attack across the so called 'free world', with Orwellian like 'hate speech' laws underway here in Ireland, which effectively brings in a thought crime into legislation.
So people who simply speak their minds are becoming a rarer and rarer commodity. Forgive me for being so crass in that expression, but I see you as one of those ballsy people, whom I have the utmost regard - intelligence, facts, a lightheartedness and courage, yes courage to be oneself and let the chips fall as they may. The way the world is going and the authoritarian nature of all governments is increasingly making brave men and women an increasingly rare thing, and I think you belong with that honorable status, like Cornel Douglas McGregor, Scott Ritter, Thomas Sheridan (even with his whackiness), Robert Kennedy Junior, Robert Malone - the inventor of the mRNA technology forcibly and psychologically injected into billions of people who has had the balls to condemn the madness and speak his mind in the face of global murderous power structures, much like JFK did, and we know the result of that.
Yet people who speak their minds have changed the world in their own unique ways, like journalist John Pilger. Ok Ok, I know I got very extreme with my examples, but I'm just trying to point out the severe lack of 'No Bullshit' artists to which I think you belong - even if you were to talk about what to eat for lunch I'm sure it would at least make for an entertaing video, and far more importantly make me feel like there is still some sanity from men roughly my age out there whom I can relate to. If you foung this rant cumbersome, then apologies, otherwise who knows what other things you could do with this channel - you have the potential to be a part of the zeitgeist, an option perhaps you never thought of, but for which I perceive ther is a huge thirst.... Kind Regards from Dublin, Ireland.......
I was getting the vibe that you were on your way out of photography. Happy to hear its quite the opposite, CZcams doesnt do justice to the skills and discipline you have applied to your craft... I love the insights but if it went away because your too busy, its completely understandable
Every credit follow your heart.
6 months ago I had a baby, told myself I would try to work through certain things to help my business grow. The marketing and that sort of stuff… I have not 😂
I haven’t even got my camera out to take photos of anything, not even baby yet and I used to be a family photographer (a long time ago). So I’ve definitely taken the break, I’ve had a bank of ideas to shoot I’ve been writing down.
My CZcams took a pause shortly after I found out I was pregnant as I just got so tired working full time and trying to CZcams too 😂
I repair cameras. It doesn’t matter if you are commercial or not. It’s a life cycle. Do what your gut tells you.
There's a landscape photographer in the UK that I also follow on CZcams (Thomas Heaton), and he too cannot do his talking pieces to the camera if others are around. Of course if you have the luxury of waiting until no one is around, great, otherwise you need to get over the self-consciousness...and most definitely if your channel is a critical component to your revenue streams.
Content is King for me.
Great video, my brain went to over load with all the topics you mentioned. In response, maybe we should change the title/position you all are not just a CZcamsr 😂. You said yourself you’d rather watch CZcams than tv. You all are CZcams Influencers, CZcams Personalities you literally have your own tv show that we enjoy watching and you have great ratings and you get paid for it. 2ndly you could fulfill your love for photography by demonstrating the beauty of using your classic camera collection and showing us the results. 3rd a lot of artists have some level of being an introvert and don’t like being on camera. Not sure how much money you made in the 30 days compared to commercial 8:44 photography (paying crew, dealing with clients and scheduling) , speaking of the stress level here. but it may be worth another try later in life.
If you are not evolving then you are stagnating. Look forward to seeing this new journey unfold with your new agency/studio etc.
I subscribed because i believe what you say is real
I think for some of us Photography is jst in our DNA. I left my Commercial Photography career behind in 2014, closed my studio jst because I couldn’t take the stress of the amount of money I had to have coming in on a monthly basis. Luckily for me I was able to move into Professional TV and Feature film production at the highest level. Then the pandemic happened and now the writers strike and I’m relaunching my photography career after walking away from it for many years and not claiming Photography as my career. I will say Pro or Commercial Photographer doesn’t have same clout as it did even around 2005 or 2006, I would say CZcamsr today has more and if you continue this path you can make as much or more as a top tier successful CZcamsr as a Commercial Photographer. I know CZcamsrs pulling in $15/20k a month doing CZcams. I think doing both is prime and ideal. I like Dad always told me never have all your eggs in one basket.
You sound like you’re more or less where I was by the end of the 1970s: you have put everything you have into photography, you have made a success of it, but now you are burning out. The bronchitis is just the start, believe me, and if you’re not careful you’ll ruin your immune system. I did, and I have suffered the consequences the rest of my life. I changed tack completely, but it sounds like you are going to continue with minor changes. All I can say is be careful and listen to your body. I am 73 now and have had a great life all told, but I wouldn't have made it to 40 if I'd gone on as I was.
I want to get to the level like yours where I keep my gear in the refrigerator 😂
“ I get embarrassed talking to a camera !”… I get embarrassed talking to the mirror 😂😂
Here I am perfectly content talking to myself! 😂
That unpronounceable surname… it’s really Schrödinger The CZcamsr - doesn’t exist if anyone else is in that studio-box.
In fact, starting to wonder if Scott is really just a very advanced bit of AI video 😅
If you can afford to do so, then do whatever the hell you want. If it doesn't make you happy, then don't.
Re CZcams, I'll listen to whatever you decide to turn out.
Try the old theatre trick of imagining everyone around you while you're filming is naked.😮😬
Why did you tape over the Canon F1 logo on the front?
I was doing some street photography and wanted to blend in more
Done the same for years with my Ricoh GR, my Sony Rx as well as my Canon gear as apparently it makes it less noticeable and therefore “attractive” to potential camera thieves.
Barry Makariou’s work is indeed very impressive IMO.
Does that mean it’s time to apply to LPA?
Haha cheers Scott 😅
Yes his work is great. and probably a pretty good time haha
Doesn’t matter, most professors don’t practice any more but still teach
I notice on the Agent-at-large there's loads of people who do "Drinks" and now you're focussing on drinks too. What's your reasoning behind this? Is it that they simply have so much work they could do with someone else to recommend? Seems like adding more noise to the crowd in a way. Interested to know your thought process behind it.
P.S I think Melissa Reynolds may like your work a little too much ;)
We all do very different things within drinks which is a huge industry
Scott, I think you are wrong with using the word 'youtuber'. Guys like Wite haired Tony sre youtubers. You are an educator and more importantly a "passive" coach (=you are not coaching me directly - but inderectly yes, me and hundreds, thousands of others). CZcams happens to be you platform.
If you weren't a working professional commercial photographer your youtube videos wouldn't have that much value for me.
Embarrassed talking to a camera, welcome to the club
I didn't get a chance, but I also take pictures not for the money, and I would still take pictures even if nobody else saw them. Do I have a long way to go, yes I do and have heaps to learn.