The Super Bowl is coming. For many of the players, this game will be the highlight of their careers - and they've been preparing for it since they first touched a football.
We tend to forget the hard work behind these players' success, the thousands and thousands of hard, boring hours at the gym. All the training sessions. All of those far from glamorous games.
Becoming good at anything takes time and consistent practice. This applies to football, and to photography.
While it's true that anyone can make a good image by being at the right place at the right moment, doing it in a consistent way requires great dedication. There’s an insane amount of work behind a photographer's portfolio. Talent and luck are factors of the equation, no doubt, but perseverance is the key to create good images in a consistent manner.
As photographers, we need to train: get out to keep your eyes and mind sharp, to build some momentum, to get to know your camera even better, to discover a new location, to get better.
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In last week’s newsletter, I talked about the images that don’t exist yet and the anticipation I feel the day before going somewhere on a photography trip. In this video, I show you what I captured after a day looking out for fresh snow.
And more snow… we got tons of it yesterday. Roads were not in the best conditions so I decided to stay local and just walk around town with my camera. I ended up spending the whole day out, and the result is a few images I really like.
If snow was one stealing the show last week, the cold is going to take its place pretty soon. Temperatures might go below 0 (and that’s F, so around -18C) and beyond. I’m very excited because that means Lake Michigan will finally start to get some significant ice. I’ve made a few images in those conditions with the Bronica, but I’m looking forward to trying with digital.
I hope you can take advantage of whatever conditions you might be getting now, wherever you are.
Thanks for being there once more, talk to you next week,
Adrian