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"Overthinking killed my happiness. Insecurities killed my self-esteem. Lies killed my trust."-unknown
I saw something like this on weheartit and also from Matt Wisniewski so credit goes to them:)
JUST SHOOT IT.
Be like Nike — just shoot it.
The biggest mistake we make in our photography is that we overcomplicate things. We read too many books and theories on photography. We look up to our idols on Instagram. We try to put on the perfect filter on our photos, to get more likes.
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1. What is a photographer?
But at the end of the day, being a photographer is to make photos. To capture moments. To capture the souls of your subjects in your viewfinders.
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2. Why do we over-complicate things?
In art, we need to just make art. We need to just do it. To not share our art project ideas; but to open up Photoshop, Illustrator, open up a pen and a pad, and to put your ideas onto paper (digital or analog).
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3. You have all the tools necessary
Photograph your morning routine. Photograph your loved ones. Photograph yourself.
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4. Just shoot.
Let’s keep it simple.
Just shoot.
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5. Practical tips to shoot more
If you suffer ‘photographer’s block‘, some tips:
a. Shoot only with your smartphone for a month
Use the simplest camera possible; your smartphone. Use the default camera app. Upload one photo a day to Instagram or Facebook, or your own blog (I recommend wordpress.com or medium.com for free sites, or make your own wordpress.org blog — signup via bluehost.com).
b. Don’t think before you shoot
Turn off your brain with your photography. If you see something that compels your soul to make a photograph. Just click the shutter. Figure out whether to keep it or ditch it later.
c. Just photograph your house for a day
We all complain that our environment is boring. So use it to your advantage. Make the most creative photos in your (boring) house.
If you shoot film, shoot one full roll of film (36 photos) in your house in one day.
If you shoot digital, shoot 36 photos inside your home.
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Conclusion
Unsticky your trigger finger. Don’t overthink photography. Keep it simple.
Make photos that are personal, mundane, and simple.
Don’t overthink it. Just shoot it.
Always,
Eric
After a very long day ... This is all I want. With you Kane xoxo
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Lyrics:
On the nights I’m feeling anxious
Overthinking everything
Darling I just wanna thank you
For the way you comfort me
Only you can stop the madness
Only you can still the air
Only you can show compassion
When the world has none to spare
Won’t ask you to fix it
Or make it right
Don’t need you to know all the reasons why
Don’t have to sing me a lullaby
Turn down the lights
And hold me
Hold me
Come and lay your head down beside me
Let me listen to the sound of your heartbeat
Baby just hold me
I need you to hold me
When nothing else can make me feel worthy
Wrap me in your love, tower over me
Just hold me
You’ve always been my sanctuary
Make me feel just like a child
You take away the weight I carry
For just a little while
Won’t you hold me
Hold me, hold me
Hold me
Come and lay your head down beside me
Let me listen to the sound of your heartbeat
Baby just hold me
I need you to hold me
When nothing else can make me feel worthy
Wrap me in your love, tower over me
Just hold me
Hold me, hold me
Hold me
Hold me
Come and lay your head down beside me
Let me listen to the sound of your heartbeat
Baby just hold me
I need you to hold me
When nothing else can make me feel worthy
Wrap me in your love, tower over me
Just hold me
October in my local area is quite the same as it was last year, with no rain in the second part of the month. Therefore, there is not much atmosphere in the morning when I go for my early walks. Also, the colours are just starting to appear, but the greens are still predominant.
Unusually to me, I missed a couple morning walks this month because Autumn is still not here. At least I thought that until this morning when I decided to visit a few forests and look at how nature progressed in colour change thus far. To my surprise, in a few days that I didn’t visit a few places where I like to go, the autumnal colour progressed pretty nicely. I was also rewarded with some gorgeous morning light to fulfil the overall feeling.
I am quite impatiently waiting for at least some rain. Mornings are pretty cold, so I’m convinced that the first morning after the rain will be foggy and atmospheric. It is so nice that the Autumn is finally coming. I’m really looking forward to capturing some colourful photos.
I’m seeing and reading that in many places Autumn is at its peak as we speak. So if you are reading this, and living in some of those countries it may look strange to you when I wrote about greens in October, but it's been like that for a couple of seasons now.
As far as this image goes, when I saw the conditions this morning, for some reason I wanted to check this forest. I felt that the light would be nice here. And I wasn’t wrong. I actually wanted to edit and post a different photo, that is a bit more complex having more nature elements in it. There are many photos that I got from this place, obviously, because I need a reason to overthink about what to edit, what to post and so on… I’m just joking, but I am in that way often. Anyway, I am aware that the photo could look a bit heavy on the left side, unbalanced, but I think the light on the right softens that a little. I deliberately chose this photo because I like the scene immensely. And I hope you do too.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HAVING A LITTLE HOPE. WITH HAVING A DREAM.
CORONA SUMMER
This summer was really tough. We are not sure of what coming next and taking too much precaution. I was never like that before. I'm a spontaneous person who always lives a simple life far away from light. It was hard for me on several sides.
This series represents my state of mind during this awkward period. I'm not here to show the beauty of our country because we know very well it's beautiful as much as any country in the world. I’m not going to discuss any subject on these pictures. This series will be different from all my precedent works.
Trying hard to catch up, fancy getting stuck on your own topics. Overthinking the subjects I think.
Anyway here I am Hear no evil Speak no evil and See no evil. Software used Gimp 2.10, Free download.
Deep Reflections
on the days intentions
Some were left..Most were met
Fitting all in
to please the masses
No time for ME
I ran out of passes
All I have is this time to second guess
Did I do well and give my best?
I'm jumping into something I'm absolutely not sure of. Something I want so badly, but still scared to try. I'm jumping into something I do not know what will bring me. Frustration, tears, happiness, joy? A sense of accomplishment, or total failure?
Anyways, here is photo number one of threehundredandsixtyfive.
I hope you will follow me on this yearlong journey, and see where it may take me. I'm so excited of fear! And definitely overthinking everything.
PLEASE VIEW IN LIGHTBOX!
Don't overthink and exaggerate everything! Just enjoy every moment today, things of yesterday are the business of yesterday and so are those of tomorrow!
If not, you are wasting your life!
Did I say something wrong? Did you hear what I was thinking?
Did I talk way too long when I told you all my feelings that night?
Is it you? Is it me? Did you find somebody better?
Someone who isn't me, 'cause I know that I was never your type
Never really your type
Overthinking's got me drinking
Messing with my head, whoa
Tell me what you hate about me
Whatever it is, I'm sorry
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I know I can be dramatic
But everybody said we had it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm coming to terms with a broken heart
I guess that sometimes good things fall apart
When you said it was real, guess I really did believe you
Did you fake how you feel when we parked down by the river that night?
That night?
That night when we fogged up the windows in your best friend's car
'Cause we couldn't leave the windows down in December
Whoa
Tell me what you hate about me
Whatever it is, I'm sorry
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I know I can be dramatic
But everybody said we had it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm coming to terms with a broken heart
I guess that sometimes good things fall apart
Souls don't have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to be with one another. This is the reason why you miss someone so much when they are not there. your soul only feels their absence. It doesn't realize the separation is temporary.
CORONA SUMMER
This summer was really tough. We are not sure of what coming next and taking too much precaution. I was never like that before. I'm a spontaneous person who always lives a simple life far away from light. It was hard for me on several sides.
This series represents my state of mind during this awkward period. I'm not here to show the beauty of our country because we know very well it's beautiful as much as any country in the world. I’m not going to discuss any subject on these pictures. This series will be different from all my precedent works.
Polaroid Week AW 2024 - Day 1 #1
Symonds Yat, and the River Wye in the English county of Herefordshire.
Been saving this imperfect triptych pretty much since the end of the last Polaroid Week in April, so it's been a long wait!
Taken on the Polaroid I-1, and without a tripod. It was just one of those days that I had a lot on my mind, and I needed somewhere like this to go away and forget about things. To be honest, right now, whilst I am posting this, I am once again, trying to combat myself not overthinking.
However, I do think that things happen for a reason, and if they are meant to be the way they are, they will be.
My second diptych for the month (and ever!).
This time, I think I the the story is clear and the photos are sufficiently different (unlike last time). The right-hand side shows espresso ice cream - hopefully that's clear!
What I wish I had tried now that I look at these next to each other is shooting the espresso cup from above and maybe putting it on the upper left to create more of a diagonal line across the two vs. the horizontal line I have now (or maybe I'm overthinking it?). I also wish I didn't have some of the melt and condensation in the bottom of the bowl but I worked as quickly as I could.
It took me a while to edit this one but I've decided to stop editing and stop overthinking it.
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How you love the things I hate about myself
That no one knows, but with you, I see hope again
Oh, I'm a mess
When I overthink the little things in my head
You seem to always help me catch my breath
But then I lose it again
When I look at you, that's the end
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2 years and going w my baby <3
Hi guys, how was your first day of the new year? I hope you got to spend it with people you love. Any new year's resolutions? I have many which I probably won't be able to keep all but I will try. They are all rather serious adultlike resolutions, and it occured to me that I have become a very serious person. I have always been a serious person, but also a very silly person. Depending on who I'm with. :) But in the last years I have lost some of my silliness and my ability to just have fun without overthinking every single thing. I am a worrier. I am the queen of worry. I mean, I worry about things that will never even happen. And I'm rational enough to realise I am just making life harder on myself. So one of my resolutions is to worry less, to have more fun, and to try to feel and live in the moment I am in now.
I'm back to posting consistency again to complete this project, i lost my way for a while and i think that's due to overworking, overthinking and the need to better myself every day. Even though all of these have benefits they each also have their drawbacks and have done for me. Taking pictures everyday has been task, one that has made me the happiest and at times very unhappy. But the unhappiness stemmed from my own thoughts, from things such as not thinking my work is as good as somebody's else, or feeling down about not taking a picture that i like. We all have bad days, heck we all even have bad weeks and even months but i promise that whatever goal you've set yourself is worth trying for because at a time it was something that made your story different from everyone else's it just takes to fill up the pages.
300 days to go
this was taken at the other end of yesterdays photo
i need to stop overthinking my pictures if i want to be able to get through this 365
thanks for the support everyone!
Apparently, the best way to photgraph me is not to tell me I'm being photographed. That way I don't start to overthink. I had thought last week about trying for a sexy lingerie shot. Then I began to ask myself was I too old to make it work. Then I started to think could I ever have made it work. You see the problem...........overthinking means that instead of a dubious lingerie shot of me stretched out seductively (?) on the sofa you get a much safer aproned woman in her pleated skirt and pearls cleaning the mirror.
(2025)
Hi all, it’s been a while but I’m happy to be starting the new year with a photograph I took during the first week of January. Our weather has been very up and down here, so during a pocket of clear, cloudy weather, I ventured off into one of my favourite places (the forest), wearing a new flowy dress (the best kind) to spontaneously capture something. It can be easy for us to overthink and get into our heads, but sometimes we’ve just got to let things go and see where the wind takes us 🍃
81/365
I should probably say something profound about the tragedy in London today, but I am not feeling great right now. Not in an ill sort of way, just in my head. I feel like my energy and motivation has sort of sapped away. It has happened before, and it usually goes away after a day or so, but it is just like there is this raincloud and no matter how hard I try, and I really do try, I cannot step out from underneath it into the sunshine where everyone else is. I think it is easier when I am talking to people to be able to push it to the back of my mind, put an umbrella up so to speak, but it is still there, casting its dull grey shadow. It is times like this when I start to worry about things that do not need worrying about. I start to overthink things.
A person could go insane inside of my mind. I think sometimes that maybe I have already.
(The hands are my dad's - we were mounting cross-stitching onto cards for my mum's business.)
Those of us who have anxiety know how it can at times consume our minds and seem like it's taking over. Overthinking even the slightest tasks, doubting, and silly insecurities will team up against you, trying to break you down. Anxiety feels like literal monsters in your head breathing down your neck, poking and prodding at you. Expecting you to meet their demands, you're trapped in your own personal hell. I wanted to create this for people like myself who deal with anxiety. We all have our demons, we all have our faults. You are not alone with this.
I can't believe it took me exactly seven days to start doubting myself. Really tired, my soul weeps and questions if I made the right decision. Will I learn anything from this project? Will I find myself? It is a big commitment, I know. Maybe all I need to do is relax, not overthink it and wrap myself in blankets of patience.
“They say, "Look before you leap." So look. But do not look for too long. Do not look into the void of uncertainty trying to predict each and every possible outcome, to evaluate every possible mistake, to prevent each possible failure. Look for the opportunity to leap, and leap faster than your fear can grab you. Leap before you talk yourself out of it, before you convince yourself to set up a temporary camp that turns into a permanent delay on your journey into your own heart.”
― Vironika Tugaleva
A visual representation of how it feels when my brain just doesn't shut up at night.
4"x6" watercolor. I wanted to do a couple of pieces really fast, and without overthinking. Really fun excercise.
Big Smurf little Smurf, my entry for week 46 challenge. I think I have been overthinking this one, still not happy but needed to post something.
I have this love-hate relationship with staying home.
Between taking advantage of my home days by being extra productive and taking the same advantage by doing nothing, a lot of time gets lost with me sitting in the same spot at home, just overthinking in a loop of feeling down, sinking in silence.
Thinking about it, it turns out that this relationship is not with being home, but with having the time to think … or maybe not.
It's magical and tiring how the human brain can prove a thing and its opposite at the same time.
However,
dear home, thank you for containing me.
What place do you think about when asked where you would like to be at that moment? for me, on the shore alone with the sound of the waves rushing against the sand and against me. Not thinking about anything and see the view is the strongest weapon for mine "overthinking".
Overthinking ...
Done at home, in my garden.
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