When you are a professional photographer, you can easily end up spending all your time working on things for clients and letting your personal work fall by the wayside. However, personal projects can be crucial not only to your own creative growth, but to your business as well. This excellent video discusses why you should carve out time for personal projects to help grow your business.
Coming to you from Spectacle Photo, this great video discusses the importance of personal projects to growing your business. It is certainly easy to get bogged down in work for your business, but clients hire you for your creative skills, and personal projects are both where you can develop those and where you can develop the kind of images or video that will attract future customers. In fact, many of the most successful professional photographers I know frequently cite personal work as the thing that led to their biggest breaks. On the other hand, you certainly do not want to experiment too heavily during a paid shoot in case something goes wrong. Given the current situation, now is a better time than ever to work on personal projects at home and develop some new techniques and styles. Check out the video above for the full rundown.
