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A short story about an important marketing principal I learned 3 years ago for photography, filmmaking, and creative projects. Perfectionism is one of the most costly traits if it isn’t strictly necessary. Often times we get caught up hyperfocusing on the wrong things–making us unproductive as photographers and creatives.
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Fun Fact: If you go to the very beginning of my Instagram, you can still see some remnants of the AcroYogurt account—before I changed it to my name. It looks like someone else is using the AcroYogurt name how haha!
So anyways, has anybody else experienced this paradox? Comment below a situation where it held you back, how you’re fighting through it! 🙂
Bruuuh, thanks a lot for this
Damn dude. I just discovered you through the recommended page and 3 videos in you’re growing to my new camera favorite dude! So good put together and the storytelling is just 👌🏽 and I watched this while as always overedited shoots for Instagram. Shoot with ridiculous overqualified gear… I will put all this into thought from now on!
Thanks for the inspiration! Love what you do!
Good day again Daniel… this is the second video on your channel that I've consumed today. Wow and Wow! I was supposed to hear this message. Be well, stay encouraged, and encouraging!
This was a spot on! Great post.
I love this.
Just found your channel tonight. You are so inspirational and wise beyond your years. I'm going through a rough patch right now and your messages are exactly what I needed to hear. So thank you and keep up the amazing work; you have a new sub in Japan ❤️
Thanks!
just stumbled on your channel. dude you're killing it! you've taught me a valuable lesson, thank you.
On this note – lose the mic (distraction) use a standard shotgun mic 😉 Content over quality – always! Nice vid!
So refreshing to see this kind of stuff on Youtube
Damn, thats what I needed… 😀
This is so pure and raw… I myself identify living most of my days in the Photographer Paradox.. Daniel, this is a very good video, and I really want to thank you for sharing this… you've opened my eyes. And for thank, I'm honestly grateful… <3
This was exactly needed. Thank you.
Needed this, Thanks!
Daniel your videos are incredible, all of them!
If you continue to make these videos you're going to be an incredible successful youtuber.
Your work and your mindset will be noticed!
Don't stop, Peace!
Wow. This has been the best video I have watched in ages. I am a major culprit of trying to make everything perfect and waste so much time and effort doing it. Thank you for opening my eyes.
It sounds like you have a good friend who is watching after you and giving you encouraging ideas. Great video! Thank you
damn man, whered you go? just as io thought this channel was gonna blow up!
Frick this video is good.
It’s so true. Thank you for this, Daniel.
I needed to hear it. I’m gonna get off my ass
One awesome piece of advice that I realized is 'the relativity of comparison'.
Let's just call it that and I'll explain what it is.
YOU compare yourself to other photographers/filmmakers, while your clients compare you to themselves. So you may be looking at a photo/video and thinking "Oh man, Quentin Tarantino would have done this so much better!" (let's just put Tarantino here as an example of a generic director), while your client may look at a shot and say "WOW. That's amazing. I am so used to my pictures being taken with the phone, this is next level!".
And while my examples are a little all over the place, I hope that you (whoever's reading this) get the point.
Great video and on point! I actually learned this lesson myself while shooting events. I shot one where I used all my fancy gear and got portraits with really shallow dof and everything. And in the correspondence with the client upon delivery she showed me her favorite image. It was a wide angle candid I converted to b&w (because of bad colors in the scene of course) that I remember I shot while walking backwards. But for her it was a moment captured of her family in a significant place. And that's what's important. Period.
Great content man very inspirational!
Don't think I could have done it without the pineapple 😀
I learned a lot today from this video I am blown away.
You're always inspirational and extremely knowledgeable. This confirms what I've been doing lately in my own work. Thanks!
More content please.
this was the best advise and life lesson.
Great video, thanks!
For an amateur photographer like me, running after the perfects and deleting all the nice capturings in the process, this was a nice lesson. Thanks man🔥 have a good one🔥
This ended up being something entirely different than I expected, and more enjoyable/ insightful as well. Dude, I struggle so often, even in my amateur photos and video with the idea of gear and expectations of quality, mine vs anyone else's, hearing about your thoughts and journey are inspiring. Thanks as always Daniel.
Damn it!!! Two thumbs up again!!! Well done.
Your channel is amazing. I'm from brazil and i admire u. keep creating contents that matters, like this video! You're making the diference!
Dude!!! Your videos are so good I can’t get over it. Everytime I press play I already know I’ll learn something new and fresh. Keep it up ‘cause this is the type of content we need, not those boring and repetitive “tips” videos.
Hey Dan…..the timing on my seeing this video is perfect!!! Your whole thought process is spot on. I know I suffer from 'paralysis from analysis', and hold back on starting many projects for exactly the reasons you describe. The first step, typically, is the hardest, right?…why make it even harder on ourselves. Thanks, man!!
Good stuff again. Kicked my butt. Definitely struggle with this paradox
You're so true
Still,inspiring
Wow! It just, hit home hard. The thought of people judging my photos just because of poor composition, bad lighting, etc. is so crippling that I tend to not post my work. However, this video has opened my eyes! Thanks for this inspiring video Daniel!
I am totally blowned away!! Learnt alot!
I needed this. Thanks for sharing.
What’s perfection is the MIC tho 🎤👌🏼👌🏼 Love this message too!! Thanks for sharing! I really feel like Tarzan and I both needed to hear this right now 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Inspired to the core!
I think its more of a rise of your skill level and the quality of work that you have put out. When you first started you had no camera or a canon t3i with a kit lens with a bunch of scratches on it but you still continued making your work better and better.
It just feels as if you shouldn't take that step backwards in quality when you've worked so long to get the quality going up and up and up. You always try and work with what you got but when you see other people out there making extremely amazing content left and right and they keep getting better it makes you want to do the same and NOT post that photo that just feels "normal" to you.
I personally believe you should always be trying to one up yourself and not focus on the marketing aspect of oh these people dont notice these things anyways. If you notice it, its something to address.
I will say it does hold you back though, but hey, great content*shouldnt be easy to make… right???*