TTIM 63 – Expert Roundup #3: Newbie Mistakes - a podcast by Ugo Cei and Ralph Velasco

This week’s edition of the podcast is a bit special. Unlike our typical episode, where we have a conversation with a guest, what we’ve done this time is to contact some of our previous guests and ask them one question. We’ve already done this twice in the past, when we published our “expert roundups” but this time we’ve also asked them to record their answer, so you can hear it in their own voice.

The question we asked was the following:

What is one thing you know now about photography that you wish you had known when you started out in your career as a photographer?

We received and collected answers from 18 of our guests, so there’s a lot of information here for you to consume. They shared some great stories and we hope that listening to them will better equip everyone who wants to take up photography a little bit more seriously to avoid some mistakes at the beginning of their journey.

We also have a transcript of all the answers, that you can find below the fold, if you’d rather read them than listen.

Stay tuned for more expert roundups coming soon.

Duration 50m 0s.

Music for this episode: “Zanzibar” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Brenda Tharp is an award-winning photographer, and educator. Her photographs have been featured in major magazines, and accepted into the journals of NANPA Expressions. She has written several books, and is working on a fourth, and still finds time to present frequent lectures on photography, and lead international photography tours and workshops.

“I wish I had known just how to promote myself more effectively. Back then, I remember thinking that if I just got published here or there, I’d be on my way and image buyers would come looking for me! But that wasn’t the case, and I quickly learned that it was still going to be up to me to promote myself. Something that many of us creatives don’t like to do, but it’s necessary. At least today with social campaigns it’s a lot easier to reach a targeted audience of image buyers and tour clients, but it’s still an essential part of growing and maintaining a successful career.”

Brenda was our guest in TTIM 52 – Going Beyond the Snapshot with Brenda Tharp.

Varina Patel says of herself: “There is nothing more remarkable to me than the power of nature. It is both cataclysmic and subtle. Slow and continuous erosion by water and wind can create landscapes every bit as astonishing as those shaped by catastrophic events – and minuscule details can be as breathtaking as grand vistas that stretch from one horizon to the other. Nature is incredibly diverse. Burning desert sands and mossy riverbanks… Brilliant sunbeams and fading alpenglow… Silent snowfall and raging summer storms… Each offers a unique opportunity. I am irresistibly drawn to the challenge of finding my next photograph, and mastering the skills required to capture it effectively.”.

“I wish I had known that being a professional photographer is as much (and sometimes more) about the business side of things than it is about photography itself. I started out as an art student, and my parents thought that was completely impractical. They were right. Not because Photography is an impractical career choi...

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