How to Overcome Feeling Like an Inadequate Photographer
Posted: May 09, 2017
No matter how many great images you take, there may be a moment when you feel inadequate as a photographer. Seeing images of other photographers who seem to have it all together can compound that feeling. Doubting your skill is something that happens to just about everyone, especially those in creative fields. Try these few things before hanging up your camera, and your career.
Olivier Duong, writer for Digital Photography School, shares what to do to overcome feeling inadequate.
Frustrating isn’t it? No matter what you do, some days you just don’t
feel like a photographer. You feel like hanging up the camera for good because you ask yourself, what’s the point of it all? In other words, you feel sorry for yourself because you feel inadequate even calling yourself a photographer. Well, the good news is that you are not alone even if it seems that way.
Go on Facebook and Twitter and all you see are people showing you how great and happy their life is. Seems like every one of these photographers has their stuff together while you, poor soul, do not. The funny thing is, from time to time all of those social media superstars post something that reveals a different picture: Sometimes they are not happy, sometimes they are downright depressed.
See, here’s what nobody tells you; feeling down about yourself, your work is an integral part of the creative process.
“I am not a painter.” Guess who wrote that in his diary? Michelangelo. No, not the Ninja Turtle, but one of the best painters that ever lived. It’s crazy to think such an able artist would have so much self-doubt, no? What do you need to DO if you feel so much self-doubt or inadequate that you just want to abandon your camera? Let’s find out.
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