Hi guys, 

It’s been so long since I’ve written a blog I’ve almost forgotten how to type.

Basically I’ll cut to the chase. I’m someone that whenever talking about work or art, I typical start or end with “But that’s just my opinion” - or “That’s not the way I would do it.” 

The reason I do this is not because I’m not confident in my own work or know what I want, it’s because I don’t really see many “rights or wrongs” in art. 

I read a few online photo magazines and folks will post a photo and open it up to comments. And there’s always 3/4 comments that say “You should have done - blah blah blah.” I might be thinking the same thing these people are commenting it, but I think it might be best to phrase in a bit more passive way. The point of us all creating is so we can do what we want (excluding of course when you have other clients / etc. to please). I’m not going to tell someone how to shoot a photo of a barn, that’s their photo. Do what you want, I could tell you I might do this, or I would have done something a little differently, but that doesn’t mean their photo is any less “good.” Notice I’m putting good in quotes because “good” is an opinion.

I guess I’m ranting about this because I’ve seen people take truly beautiful images on their iphones, and I’ve seen people not able to even get a picture in focus with a Canon 5d Mark IV. And when someone posts a fine photo then 5 people comment on it “do this next time.” I just don’t like that. 

I understand that a lot of people want advice and critiquing, and that’s good. Just please make sure you aren’t killing their own creativity and trying to force them into shooting like you. 

Thank you for reading, and thank you even more for ignoring all of my typos and grammatical errors. 

Until next time,

Matt

PS. I’ll probably be shooting something today not exactly how you would, and that’s probably how it should be.