5 Learnable Skills That Every Professional Photographer Must Have
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- 03 Aug 2022
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As photographers, we often are bogged down in what gear to buy, what lens to choose, what has better specs, and so on. To everyone's satisfaction or disappointment, these things will only make a marginal difference in most cases. As a photographer, you need to have more skills than gear. I am here to tell you the five most important ones.
Skills you need to have as a photographer might seem like the old list of being able to expose, compose, and remove people from a landscape photo in Photoshop. While there is no denying that these are all valid things you need to do as a photographer, they are very basic, and in order to really gain a competitive advantage and set yourself apart, you need to have more transferrable skills that are not industry-specific. This list is of skills you need to hone repeatedly in order to master photography.
Learning and Unlearning Fast
I don’t believe in art education. I do, however, think that everyone who can get a bachelor's and master's, should get one, not because the knowledge is particularly useful, especially for creatives, but because being in higher education is a crucial time in your life where you learn how to learn. The ability to take something, wrap your head around it, and then use it is something that people undervalue a lot. Take something as simple as a new camera: the faster you can learn it, the more advantage will you have. The “old guard” that shot film well into the digital age because they didn’t want to learn the new technology has gone out of business.
The same applies to unlearning. Just because you did something one way for 40 years doesn’t mean it will stay like that. One of the beautiful things about having an art career is that there are new things coming out every day. Being able to keep an open mind and unlearn old ways of doing things will certainly help you be a much better photographer. Read More...
