Comments on: First Steps into Photography with a new Canon EOS 40D http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/ Thoughts and Sound of Media Artist and Thinker Matt Searles Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:20:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Matt http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/#comment-657 Matt Fri, 02 May 2008 13:15:40 +0000 http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/#comment-657 umm... I think I didn't put that well.. or that's what I was thinking all last night... (lol, more self doubt) Umm.... Given, I have a lot of self doubt, but I also think self doubt is a natural part of the process. As I write this I'm getting more pics ready to post.. and feeling the doubt fairly acutely... as I see how bad the pictures are. Seeing how bad the pictures are isn't quite the same as self doubt mind you.. It's more like my aesthetic response.. for an artist, your aesthetic response is one of the fundamental keys to making great work.. So I feel like, at least on some levels, my hating my photography is probably healthy. That's a different issue from the bigger picture of having a goal to being good at this stuff.. and sorta assessing where you are on that path.. and how you feel about the chances of you actually getting to where you want to go.. If I have any doubt along these lines.. It's probably along the lines of "do I have the commitment necessary to make that journey?" umm… I think I didn’t put that well.. or that’s what I was thinking all last night… (lol, more self doubt)

Umm…. Given, I have a lot of self doubt, but I also think self doubt is a natural part of the process. As I write this I’m getting more pics ready to post.. and feeling the doubt fairly acutely… as I see how bad the pictures are.

Seeing how bad the pictures are isn’t quite the same as self doubt mind you.. It’s more like my aesthetic response.. for an artist, your aesthetic response is one of the fundamental keys to making great work.. So I feel like, at least on some levels, my hating my photography is probably healthy.

That’s a different issue from the bigger picture of having a goal to being good at this stuff.. and sorta assessing where you are on that path.. and how you feel about the chances of you actually getting to where you want to go.. If I have any doubt along these lines.. It’s probably along the lines of “do I have the commitment necessary to make that journey?”

]]> By: Jennifer Martin http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/#comment-651 Jennifer Martin Fri, 02 May 2008 10:17:14 +0000 http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/#comment-651 You Don't Suck Deal with it. Monkeys may come up with Shakespeare eventually but I second the opinion coined about the Letterman photo. And quit looking at it negatively. It's not how far you have to go - it's how far you've come! You've accomplished something already. And your ambition isn't what needs a tranquilizer - it's your rampaging sense of self doubt that does. I will build a sense of ego in you even if I have to call IKEA to do it. You
Don’t
Suck

Deal with it.

Monkeys may come up with Shakespeare eventually but I second the opinion coined about the Letterman photo. And quit looking at it negatively. It’s not how far you have to go - it’s how far you’ve come! You’ve accomplished something already. And your ambition isn’t what needs a tranquilizer - it’s your rampaging sense of self doubt that does. I will build a sense of ego in you even if I have to call IKEA to do it.

]]> By: Matt http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/#comment-638 Matt Thu, 01 May 2008 21:27:28 +0000 http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/#comment-638 No really, I do suck! Well.. I first started saying I sucked after my first day of shooting.. which was down right awful.. right now I seem to be shooting about 1000 pics a day.. more or less. So its sorta like having a zillion monkey's on type writers.. sooner or latter they'll write Shakespeare! I do like these pics.. and I'm slowly developing a small collection of pics I actually like.. these will no doubt be the ones that show up on this blog.. My feeling that I suck is like.. it's shifted from feeling like.. I was just sooo terrible to.. "damn I got a huge mountain to climb." I think part of it is. my definition of "acceptable" is like.. on the level of some of the art photography I've seen in museums.. or its like the level that my sound work is at.. or my painting / digital graphics at its best moments.. It's like "good enough" for me is something that has "world historical importance." Really good would be like.. Matt's a philosopher and he just kicked Plato's ass.. So it's sucking relative to my ambition.. which should probably take a tranquilizer every now and then.. or something. No really, I do suck!

Well.. I first started saying I sucked after my first day of shooting.. which was down right awful.. right now I seem to be shooting about 1000 pics a day.. more or less. So its sorta like having a zillion monkey’s on type writers.. sooner or latter they’ll write Shakespeare!

I do like these pics.. and I’m slowly developing a small collection of pics I actually like.. these will no doubt be the ones that show up on this blog..

My feeling that I suck is like.. it’s shifted from feeling like.. I was just sooo terrible to.. “damn I got a huge mountain to climb.” I think part of it is. my definition of “acceptable” is like.. on the level of some of the art photography I’ve seen in museums.. or its like the level that my sound work is at.. or my painting / digital graphics at its best moments.. It’s like “good enough” for me is something that has “world historical importance.” Really good would be like.. Matt’s a philosopher and he just kicked Plato’s ass..

So it’s sucking relative to my ambition.. which should probably take a tranquilizer every now and then.. or something.

]]> By: E-von http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/#comment-627 E-von Thu, 01 May 2008 13:24:48 +0000 http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/#comment-627 Dude, you are totally selling yourself short by saying you suck!!!! You definitely don't suck at all!! I see great things ahead with the photography. In fact, the one of your dad in the chair watching Letterman and the chair your mom used to sit in is so....well it's wicked poignant, man. I'd love to see a sort of photo documentary in that kind of vein. WWLODD - What Would Leaf Of Death Do? ;) Dude, you are totally selling yourself short by saying you suck!!!! You definitely don’t suck at all!! I see great things ahead with the photography. In fact, the one of your dad in the chair watching Letterman and the chair your mom used to sit in is so….well it’s wicked poignant, man. I’d love to see a sort of photo documentary in that kind of vein.

WWLODD - What Would Leaf Of Death Do? ;)

]]> By: Jennifer Martin http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/#comment-623 Jennifer Martin Thu, 01 May 2008 11:11:23 +0000 http://mattsearles.com/podcast_blog/2008/05/01/first-steps-into-photography-with-a-new-canon-eos-40d/#comment-623 You do not suck you're just new at it. We all know you have issues. Do not make me come and there and beat you about the head and shoulders with your own camera bag. You do NOT suck! Grow a sense of self-esteem! You do not suck you’re just new at it. We all know you have issues. Do not make me come and there and beat you about the head and shoulders with your own camera bag. You do NOT suck! Grow a sense of self-esteem!

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