Sarah YOU DID A FABULOUS JOB with the shoot!!
Hey the sign of a true artist is to always question and improve. We are our own worst critics.
I think a healthy dose of "questioning" is good unless it stops you from going.
The proof is in the pudding if they loved the images as I and others here have and paid you happily for them ( I would have happily paid for them if they were mine) then they were a success. I think once that "fear" goes away completely ones artistry goes with it.
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Originally Posted by SarahN
So 2 weeks ago I went to go do an engagement shoot for a couple I know. They were paying me for it, so it wasn't just for kicks and giggles. As I left my dorm to go shoot them one of my friends looked at me and noted that I looked stressed. With great honesty I looked at her and said
"Really, I'm absolutely terrified."
"Of what?" she asked
"I am just so scared that I'll do a horrible job."
" Sarah. You won't."
"Well, probably not horrible, but what if it does? I'm just not confident in my abilities".
She gave me a few words of encouragement, then I was off.
The shoot ended up going pretty well, but still I couldn't shake the feeling that I am a complete fraud, that I'm really awful and have deluded myself into thinking that I'm a decent photographer. Part of this is because I struggle with perfectionism, so nothing is ever good enough, but another part of it is because I am comparing my work with professional wedding photographers who get paid $15,000 a wedding. I look at my pictures and I just think they're crap.
So what can I do to build my confidence? I know it's not good for me to go to clients with this attitude, but somehow I just feel like I'm a fraud. What do you do to be able to look at your pictures and say "That one is good."?
Any and all advice would be appreciated!
-Sarah |