Street Photography and Mental Health: 5 Tips to Beat the Blues
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- Do you ever think your street photography needs work? Beat the street photography blues with these reminders.
I was feeling down about my work in Italy, until I visited a photography exhibit in Rome where I remembered four important ideas.
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** CHAPTERS **
00:00 Introduction
01:43 My story shooting in Italy.
03:17 Visiting the Peggy Kleiber exhibit in Rome.
04:13 Photography as a way of life.
05:48 Photography as a form of art.
06:45 The contact sheet reminder.
08:13 Photography as language.
09:58 The final point.
10:12 How do you deal with the street photography blues?
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Commit to the process, and not to the outcome. That’s what I try to remind myself frequently. And if it is really starting to give me pain to look at the crap I produce, I take a break - both from taking and consuming photography. Good video! Thank you.
Commit to the process. Good words.
I never thought the feelings I have or had were anything to have to cure or even dwell on. I always thought they ( my feelings) were part of the creative process whether it be positive or genitive. Just part of what makes photography a deep and meaningful endeavor. The deeper and darker the better .Jim
Man.. I'm on the same boat, we attack ourselves so hard sometimes, me even pushing myself to have the last equipment (without money, I live with the essentials), I ended with a Canon R6, and now using a Canon EF 85mm 1.8 USM and my mind always is like "you will not get good photos with that one, go for the EF 85mm 1.4 II, or the heavy Sigma 85mm 1.4, or at least the RF 85mm F2" and my anxiety always like that, I'm not enjoying photography some time ago because of my own uncontrollably manipulation (that comes to be in the deep side just marketing manipulation), and I don't have time to go and shot other than maybe some Saturdays, now I want to stay with the 85mm that I already have and push myself to get good results, this video helped me to see that I'm not the only one who doesn't like at least the 50% of my own creations, keep trying is my advice, we will have randomly amazing shots.
100% know what you're talking about. "Keep shooting" is excellent advice. Thanks. I think some of us blame our tools (no thanks to ads and the marketing and the media) for not being good enough. Plus, we place (too) high standards on ourselves. We are our worst critic. But you (your vision and experience) and your tool (that camera/lens combo) are good enough! Create for the sake of creating. And trust yourself. Join the Discord server and show me some of your work! Thanks for your honest comment!
Brilliant presentation and very true words and thoughts.
Thank you, Graeme!
This was great Jeremy! Really captivating storytelling! Here for more!👌
Thank you, Hugo! More to come.
@@jeremybassetti nice!
Hope you're feeling better now. I miss traveling to Italy. The dark and light spaces in life as well as in photography help us grow, there is nothing wrong with feeling either way. It's the cycles of life, just embrace, let go and carry on. Thank you for showing your feelings and your art.
Thank you! I am feeling better now. Getting it off of my chest also helps, in a strange way (despite feeling more vulnerable now than before - ha!). But yes, “letting go and carrying on” is a powerful help.
I feel like I'm in a little rut right now but knowing I'll find my way out helps me not let it get to me. I shoot my way out of ruts; I've been here so many times. Something will materialize; I have faith in the process. I'm probably the more senior person here, one who started in photography before digital (way before). The ratio goal taught in the art school photo programs was 50:1 - 50 shots to get one keeper. I hear digital people who have started shooting film say, "I shot a roll of 36 and only got one I sort of like!" Well yeah, that's about right. In an interview with Martin Parr who shot like a maniac, he said he only gets one photograph a year he really likes. We put too much pressure on ourselves to make a masterpiece. It's also a really good idea to just not look for a while, like weeks or months. Go back to things you shot a few months ago once the memory of the situation has passed. Get some distance, you gain some objectivity by looking at photographs that feel like someone else took them. When we had to wait for film to come back from a lab or you came back with rolls to process yourself, the distance was built-in. This was a good video. Thank you!
Thanks, Dorie. I like the ideas behind the 50:1 ratio and what Martin Parr said (I hadn't run into this quote before), and your idea about getting some distance from the work is key. Thank you!
@@jeremybassetti I was also going to mention this but my post got long. I was an art teacher for 25 years with a BFA in works on paper (I was a printmaker). Just try to tell a bunch of teenagers who are so afraid to put their pencil on a piece of paper that everything they draw is not going to be a masterpiece! My challenge was to try to get them to understand the purpose of making sketches - for every painting you see in a museum, there are piles of sketches somewhere you'll never see. We should probably consider those shots that don't quite make it as sketches and really study them, too. Self-critiquing is a difficult thing but necessary.
Agree 100%
Olga Karlovac is a great photographer that uses a lot of heavy contrast and blur to compose her images and it's really inspiring. Technically her photos aren't "good" because almost none of them are sharp or clear in the subject matter. But they still create these beautiful dark scenery that, in my opinion, works incredibly well.
Thanks for the comment. I’ll check out her work!
Incredible work. Thanks for sharing.
@@jeremybassetti of course! Thank you for even looking at her work! I love sharing artists if I can get the chance too!
Thank you
You're welcome!
well looking at this agin helps a lot today!
Hope you can shake it!
Wow great video. Thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this video! I enjoyed it a lot. Its good to see the other side of things, when photography can bring you down, but isnt that what life is - ups and downs. Photography as a way of life and it doesn't provide you with constant stream of happiness, it provides you with constant stream of meaning though
Thank you! I agree 100%. “A constant stream of meaning” is a great way to put it.
If you lived locally, I would buy you a pint, hi5 Tim
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If you’re stepping out the door with the millstone of social media around your neck because of your need to please those “followers” then it becomes a chore.
Yes. I imagine social media is one (strong) source of anxiety and depression for some photographers. I suspect some anxiety comes when they see influencers with thousands of followers/likes and they compare themselves to them. Chasing likes and not following your own course will create mental health issues; we are seeing this happen everywhere (not just in creative circles). Thanks for the comment.