Photo Failure
It is far too easy to fall into the trap of only broadcasting the good things about ourselves; our happy days, our successes, our best lives. Be it in conversation with others or more often than not through social media we want to prove to everyone else how good we are.
Photographers can be especially guilty of this. We don't want people to think we're not very good. With the trillions of photos there are there we're each trying to get people to pay attention to our images more than others. This does help to create a false impression of success rate though. It can look like everything works out perfectly each time. This is far from true though, with many having far more failures than successes.
As such I wish to start occasionally sharing some of my photography failures, starting with this real slap to the head moment. It was September 2013 and my early days of going on photo charters. Barrow Hill Roundhouse Railway Centre is a wonderfully atmospheric place and I was really looking forward to my first photography event there.
I finished work and made the dash up to Derbyshire, arriving just as the event was getting going. At the gate I handed over the money and parked up, eager to start. So I opened the boot to get my gear, unzipped my camera bag, looked at the empty space where my camera should have been, zipped up the bag and shut the boot.
I was really annoyed at myself and felt incredibly stupid. There was nothing I could do about it though so I had a quick stroll around the site to stretch my legs then headed home.
These things happen though and I laugh about it now. I imagine many of you have similar stories even if you may not want to admit to them. Not everything we do is a success but we should accept it though and show the world that the bad moments happen just as much as the good.
Photo Failure
It is far too easy to fall into the trap of only broadcasting the good things about ourselves; our happy days, our successes, our best lives. Be it in conversation with others or more often than not through social media we want to prove to everyone else how good we are.
Photographers can be especially guilty of this. We don't want people to think we're not very good. With the trillions of photos there are there we're each trying to get people to pay attention to our images more than others. This does help to create a false impression of success rate though. It can look like everything works out perfectly each time. This is far from true though, with many having far more failures than successes.
As such I wish to start occasionally sharing some of my photography failures, starting with this real slap to the head moment. It was September 2013 and my early days of going on photo charters. Barrow Hill Roundhouse Railway Centre is a wonderfully atmospheric place and I was really looking forward to my first photography event there.
I finished work and made the dash up to Derbyshire, arriving just as the event was getting going. At the gate I handed over the money and parked up, eager to start. So I opened the boot to get my gear, unzipped my camera bag, looked at the empty space where my camera should have been, zipped up the bag and shut the boot.
I was really annoyed at myself and felt incredibly stupid. There was nothing I could do about it though so I had a quick stroll around the site to stretch my legs then headed home.
These things happen though and I laugh about it now. I imagine many of you have similar stories even if you may not want to admit to them. Not everything we do is a success but we should accept it though and show the world that the bad moments happen just as much as the good.