Making photography a career is the dream for a ton of people, but very few find lasting professional success. Why is that? There are many things that make it difficult, but one of the most common and damaging is something we often do to ourselves.
Coming to you from Ted Forbes of The Art of Photography, this insightful video discusses why so many creatives who have a lot of talent fall short in the professional realm. I think Forbes is really making an important point when it comes to opportunity looking like work, especially when that work is not particularly exciting. For some reason, we tend to overly romanticize creative fields — music, photography, filmmaking, the visual arts, and more all get this sort of treatment. And the danger of this for creatives trying to make careers in such fields is that it skews their perception of what the actual day-to-day life is like. In reality, it is often a lot of rather unexciting tedium, just like any other job, and amateurs making the transition to professional life are often surprised by this and end up disillusioned and unmotivated after just a short time, which is why it is so important to have a realistic understanding of the job entails. Check out the video above for Forbes' full thoughts.
