Can you describe your life as a photographer?

During the New Year's holidays, relatives and friends gather, and photographers come to take a photo. There is a photographer here, let the photographer shoot, and the photographer must shoot better than us. To be honest, I'm a commercial photographer, and I really can't take pictures by the fountain on the square road where the lights are messy at night in the hotel restaurant, maybe my skills are limited.

I really don't want to touch the camera at any other time except for work. In my spare time, I just want to shoot some small things quietly, and I don't like to shoot people.

Tired, in addition to being tired, life is not guaranteed to be the most terrible. When business is good, there are times when the film is repaired until the hand cramps, and there are also times when it is opened two or three times a month, or even once or twice. My husband and I both started our own businesses, and although we were not poor to the point of being bare-bottomed, our living standards were significantly lower than when we went to work before.

I may be a little luckier than the average independent photographer, in February last year, my husband vacated the old house for me to make a studio, which means that I don't have to go in the wind and rain like other photographers, and I don't have to worry about the rent every day, plus the old house is in a good location (city center, historic buildings in the concession), although it is a hundred years old, it is well maintained, and the interior is also very complete. ‍‍

I'm a photographer, and this industry is the same as any other job, making money to support my family! It's just that there will be more fun in life (maybe only in the eyes of photographers), such as going out to shoot blindly after the rain, such as going out to find interesting things when you are bored, just put two pictures on it, without watermarks, but I hope you will be merciful.

I seem to have been a photographer for several years, and my feelings have been changing since I was a child. To sum it up, it can be summarized as: full of curiosity - full of enthusiasm - take a picture of everything you see - feel quite talented - self-confidence - (at this time began to try to sell ** for money) - was hit - started to study again - kept taking jobs - began to feel tired - exhausted - began to doubt life - went to nmd photography - calmed down - continued to study - bowed to the forces of Party A - tepid for a long time - enthusiasm was exhausted. ‍‍

I made photography a profession because of my hobby. Please remember that this is a profession with poor competition. Because too many people think that if there is a camera and lens, he is a photographer, and the threshold for entry is too low and too low.

You join a local photography group, and you'll see a bunch of people touting some somehow describable **, as if there were a group of Adams and Araki a**. You organize for the first time, and you have to be prepared to be crazy to diss your mind, because you will know how difficult it is to turn "ideas" into "reality", and you will also discover how big the aesthetic gap between people will be. When your skills improve a little, you will be obsessed with equipment for a period of time, but a lot of equipment is not only expensive, but also wearable, and many people will stagnate at this stage and the previous stage, and become what we call keyboard warriors and old mages.

2022 is coming to an end, and looking back on this year, the thing that brought me the most joy was my hobby: photography. The joy that photography brings me includes making my spare time more fulfilling, expanding my knowledge and allowing me to fully appreciate the beauty of life.

1. Photography makes my spare time life more fulfilling and I feel very happy.

At first, I came into contact with photography because I wanted to take pictures with a camera, a simple need, but in the process, I gradually felt the fun of it, and began to like photography, in 2022, most of my spare time was spent in photography, which made me feel very fulfilled and happy in this year, and I was happy every day, so photography is the happiest thing I have in this year.

2. Through photography, my knowledge has been newly expanded, and I feel very happy.

Photography is an art that requires a wealth of knowledge and skills to master. In 2022, through the study and practice of photography, I have learned new knowledge, expanded my knowledge, and felt very fulfilled.

3. I fully appreciate the beauty of life through the hobby of photography, so I am very happy.

Each of us hopes that we can live a good life and continue to pursue it, in 2022, I fully feel the beauty of life through the hobby of photography, whenever I go out of the house during the break, record the bits and pieces of life with the camera, I will feel very happy, feel that life is full of fun and hope, and full of confidence in the future, because I have a good attitude, so I have a good attitude in this year, whether it is work or life is very smooth, I am very happy, so photography has become the happiest thing I have ever felt in 2022.

You dream of making money, and I make money to support my dreams. ”

When I saw this sentence in the circle of friends half a year ago, my heart trembled.

Because I know that this is a true portrayal of many of my independent photographer friends around me.

We are all ordinary people who will not be able to control our own destiny for about a lifetime.

The most normal track in everyone's eyes is - honest work, honest promotion, honest wife, honest childbearing, honest service to the old.

Independent photographers are going the other way.

Most of the work-related events they do do not have company authority, brand endorsement, job premium, large project achievements, and experience accumulation.

There's just one person, doing what he likes to do.

It's like a child playing a building block game, and adults always feel that it is worthless, but the child knows that he is building the castle in his heart.

Recently, I spoke to nine independent photographers: How are you doing as a photographer?

At the same time, I also want to ask you through the story: Do you, who also like photography, become the ideal version of yourself?

If you've become a photographer, do you remember the first time you picked up a camera?

Twenty and photographed, thirty and standing".

Photographer Yanzi once wrote a book called "Why Wait for the Afterlife", which said:

I want to walk, I want to run, I want to see the scenery. I want to love, I want to hate, I want to remember everything. I want to shout, I want to scream, I want to cry. I want to let go, I want to be brave, I want not to wait. It's all the same, go and go, why wait for the next life. ”

It's like photography that we've always wanted to quit and do.

Maybe there will be constant self-doubt and denial in the process, maybe you will be poor and aggrieved for a while, but this time in life, if you really want to do it from the bottom of your heart, what reason is there not to do it?

If you go to work in a job you don't like now, doesn't it feel like saving your sex life and using it later in life?

Don't compromise so quickly, and don't give up the world to the people you despise.

If you are still unwilling, then go all out.

In the game of photography, everything that rises will converge.

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As a wedding photographer, when I first started this profession, I was very curious and excited. Now a wedding, I took hundreds of photos, but I only kept one in the end, and I just want to commemorate how many weddings I participated in before it will be my turn.

I'm in a bit of a wandering period now. Young artists all need to set off with their cameras and need inspiration, this is the attitude of photography, hoping that they can grow on the way.

What I understand is that photography is a way of getting along with the world, a part of life. She was like my girlfriend and integrated into my life.

As far as my current work status is concerned, it is still quite good, I work in a photo studio, just complete the fixed photography work every day, and I can get off work, post-retouching, and there are professional personnel.

As a photojournalist of a party newspaper, I only send 4 articles a month, and I can't hold endless meetings, and the better thing is that I can't be fired if I don't go to work.

A handful of bitter tears, repairing the film until midnight every day, I couldn't move for a few hundred yuan before, but now I am very happy that a few hundred yuan is enough to run for a day.

I used to love photography, and I took my camera wherever I went, but now, I don't want to take my camera out of the house when I'm leisure.

I'm a travel photographer and a professional photographer. There is a sentence that I understand now, "In this life, people are already very happy to be able to do what they like." Yes, I got the life I wanted, doing what I love and making a living from it on my way to explore the world.

I want to say the most important point, it's hard to find a partner! It's really hard to find, it's especially hard to find, am I not good enough? No, it's too good.

Let me tell you about it.

During the Spring Festival this year, my parents and I came to my grandmother's house for the Chinese New Year. During the Spring Festival, I had a very happy time, and many interesting and unforgettable things happened here, one of which left a deep impression on me.

The second day of the Lunar New Year was the day to celebrate my grandfather's birthday, and everyone elected me to be the "photographer" on that day. I was ecstatic and quickly begged my dad to take out his baby, the camera. Under my father's guidance, I learned some basic knowledge of photography in a short time, and I couldn't wait to go out and practice.

Our family walked along the riverside road, where the scenery is beautiful: the flowers are in full bloom, the rockeries are graceful, and the river water is ......crystal clearSeeing this beautiful scene, I couldn't help but pick up my camera and take a few photos in a row. Walking and walking, we came to a small square composed of flowers, ** in the shape of a big guitar, my sister was very curious, and ran up to "visit" it as soon as she saw it.

I took this opportunity to adjust to the "kid" mode and snapped a few shots of alignment. My mother and aunt couldn't bear it anymore, so they asked me to take pictures of them, so I switched back to the "smiley face detection" mode and chose a beautiful angle to take a few photos for them. We continued to talk and walk, and came to Fuhe.

The water surface of the Fuhe River is very wide, the water surface is quiet like a mirror, the surrounding scenery is reflected in it, and several pagodas and small buildings are faintly seen in the fog in the distance, it is really like a fairyland on earth!

After seeing this beautiful scene, everyone asked me to take pictures of them. I made them pose super cool, and I used my camera to capture the beautiful moment ...... themWhen I got home, I turned on the computer, plugged in the USB flash drive, and checked the ** just now. Everyone kept complimenting me on how well I lit up.

I smiled embarrassedly.

It was a joy and a memorable event. Because I learned photography and was recognized by everyone. I believe that in the near future, I will definitely become a true photographer through hard work!