I got a letter this week from Erin who is 14 and wants to pursue a career in photography and film making. She asked me what is the most important lesson that I have learned as a photographer.
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Ted Forbes
The Art of Photography
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My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photography that I want to share with you on YouTube.
The Art of Photography is my channel and I produce photography videos to provide a 360 degree look into the world of making images. We all want to get better so lets do this together!
I make videos covering famous photographers, photography techniques, composition, the history of photography and much more.
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Always be passionate…good days…bad days…but in the end…you will never regret it…because you will have been faithful, honest with yourself…
When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding to support the war effort, he replied: “Then what are we fighting for?”
I really like the way your shirt complements your eyes in the given light. Great video, btw.
Excellent response. I especially liked the part about “people trying to prevent you” from following a dream. Most assume we mean out of malice or envy, but far more often their action are unconscious and out of love. Whether the goal is to be a pro basketball player, singer, or flutist (my step sister way back when), those closest to them discourage pursuit of the dream to protect them from disappointment and hardship. Realistically, very, very few will ever play pro ball, sing, or have a paid chair in a symphony orchestra. Just playing the odds, parents and love ones will redirect one to a more practical and viable career path.
Much to the consternation of my step-mother, I encouraged my step sister to pursue her dream, but in Texas (SMU) instead of New York. Within 3 semesters she switched to architecture. She realized on her own she didn’t have the same drive and intensity — and was not willing to make the sacrifices — to play flute as a career. She still explored her dreams and now has no regrets. She and her husband have their own small architectural firm.
This was a great vid.
Ted, thanks for the insight. – RJane Style
Just a thought. When people start and it's fun, it's also because they do not use it to pay the bills, so maybe to keep photography fun as it was at the beginning, would maybe mean not to do it as a career, and keeping it as a hobby. But i know that it might sound a bit sad to hear for a 14 year old.
Don't ever think photography is not important today! When I was a boy we had three channels on TV, no internet, no phones or digital cameras but it was a National Geographic magazine that opened the world up to a 10 year old boy and it still does today 50 years later, the photograph is a gift to humans.
I saw graffiti on a wall in the middle of New Mexico an has rung in my head and carry into my work. “Passion knows no volume” We can do anything if one has passion! Great topic because I grew up with people and parents warned me from going into the arts….but I raised a family doing what I found I had a passion!
I love this video
so nice video
I actually quite liked the hour glass drawing 🥴
Ted, this is the best Youtube video I've seen this year. Thank you!
Good luck Erin, good advice. Like your spouse, never forget why you fell in love!
I ve been watching your channel for years. But this is indeed a VERY FINE vid with I suppose the best one tip I 've ever heard: remember what the fun in it was while starting. Great. This applies to the whole live!
This is very important, Passion is inevitable 📈📊📸
Brilliant and Honest response.
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Ur videos look so good tht I get scared when I open them …. I check in a hurry to see if it changed to 1080p but it's shows 360p! Damnnnnn !
love this clever MAN
Hi! I really enjoy your videos. I just subscribed. God bless
Man that kid is sharp…!!!
Thank You.
I dont understand how anyone can dislike this video. Its so inspiring, positive, so real, intentional and emotional. Thank you for this video. It was not made for me but it felt like it was made just for me. Thank you.
Spot on!
Did you talk about stockphotograpy like istock. Com
I subscribed to your channel…now I want one a day…maybe I'll learn something.
I'm a senior school film photography instructor and this is heaven! Lol, THANK YOU!
Wonderful Advice , Bravo.
Ted the Greatest!
Great Advice Dad! Im 48! LOL!
Great meaningful Info!
farteen? haha
Wonderful!
Incredibly valuable advice 👍
Hi Ted love your work – keep pounding away -it matters – Fireman, doctors and accountants replace by AI, creativity like most professional photographers have AI will need need some help and a battery recharge to hike for 6 days to get the photo. Humans adapt, AI doesn't think outside the square . Erin at 14 still has the world as het oyster she just needs to negotiate the landscape then take the landscape… richard of oz
Well said. Best advice on life and pursuing your passion. Thank you for your thoughts.
man! you re not just a photographer, you re a philosopher! hats off!
Some time ago I chose to pursue a carrier of a statistician. Nevertheless your message is very universal and so beautiful that it made me start crying with positive tears. Thank you.
so my position right now is i want to buy my first "proper" camera, initially was just looking at the DSLR nikon or canon something like a 750d or a d5300/7100 but then looked a bit more into it and seen quite a few pros using mft now and figured if its decent enough for them it must be decent enough for me, the bonus is obviously way more lightweight and more likely to take it with me etc. So i want the camera to still be able to capture the odd bit of action and moving subjects, my interest in cars and motoring so id like it to be able to take some pics of moving cars and then decent backdrops of cars when we go out on a run etc. so far my shortlist is… olympus omd em-1 mk1, fuji xt-1, panasonic gx85, panasonic g7 OR maybe get something a little cheaper like a olympus pen epl7 or a pen ep-5 and put the savings towards a prime lens (id be buying a prime lens with the others to just a few weeks down the line instead). Which of those cameras would you lean towards? i know the fuji is Xmount and not MFT and the lenses appear to be quite on the expensive side compared to mft but they produce some nice quality etc so worth noting. Initially was just going to buy an olympus omd em-10 mk1 or 2 or the em-5 mk2 but was put off them by their lack of ability to be able to focus and take good pics of something that isnt stood still (that seems to be the general concencus iv found when doing my research) so would do you think i should narrow it down to out of that list?!?!
One of the best advice I've watched so far. Lots to learn from this but the two main takeaways are: 1) pursue a creative career if that's where your heart is but at the same time don't be afraid to do something more practical like being an accountant or a teacher and 2) go out there and make mistakes and learn from those experiences because that is the time you learn the most. Awesome response! Thanks, Ted.
I’ve been making some money with photography, I’ve been getting a lot of encouragement 🙂 and have a side job where I get paid by a model to take her pictures, such a painful task 🙂 but as I’ve been progressing, you do come across douchebags and negative vibes from losers! I’ve had people say ‘why are you using a manual lens, that’s for pros’ ‘why are you using Nikon, that’s yesterday’s news’ all sorts of stuff 🙂 I even got dropped from photographing some events after some people complained I was moving about too much? I was using primes 🙂 I wasn’t getting in the way of anyone! I just had negative people on my back? the last straw was when I used a flash? Not much though! it was just a small few people whining? I was replaced with someone who took photos from the back with a zoom lens 🙂 not sounding like a snob, I had s pro camera with decent lens. They had a 300 pound bridge camera with zoom 🙂 sadly, this was work for some church events! not all God followers are nice 🙂
Always great to see people that love and enjoy what they do…