When you are a professional photographer, your life is often extremely busy, and it is common for the fact of creating and taking pictures to go from an act of passion to one of work. And that can be a rather sad and even detrimental thing for both your professional work and your satisfaction as a creative. This insightful video essay discusses the issue and why it is so important to keep being a hobbyist photographer, even when you are a professional.
Coming to you from Ted Forbes of The Art of Photography, this fantastic video essay discusses the importance of remaining committed to the hobby of photography, even as a professional. It is no secret that turning a hobby into work can often suck the enjoyment out of the experience. While it is sad to lose one's enjoyment of the craft, it can also be detrimental to your professional work. Any career that requires creativity needs that creativity to be continuously nurtured in order for that person to thrive. This is so many top professional photographers never stop advocating for the importance of taking up personal projects, as these are where you will find most of the ideas you use in your paid work. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Forbes.
So glad the cell phone came along and made it easy to always have a camera with me.
Ted isn't talking about photography as a hobby for professionals so this article is misleading. He is talking about the labels professional, amateur and hobbyist and explaining why these labels really don't matter. He goes into more detail about it and I fully agree.
If anyone is interested Ted talks about it around 9:18 in the video.