Hard Work

Where do I start? How do I gain clients? How do I build my portfolio? How can I become successful as a photographer?

Do work. Don't Stop. Do more work and do it hard.

The best way to get more clients and actually get your business hoping is to PHOTOGRAPH. Just start photographing. Whatever it is that you are going to specialize in, just do it. Find friends to pose for you, couples, take a drive and find a landscape that you love. Cook some food and take a photo of it.

If you don't take action nothing is going to happen.

Yesterday I asked my friend and her boyfriend if we could do a little photoshoot. The sun was setting, we had a couple beers to lower the anxiety, and BAM, images for my website, samples for future clients, portfolio being assembled. Another positive of you photographing in public places is exposure to other possible clients. If someone happens to walk by in need of a photographer for the future, give them your card! Tell them your name. You are putting yourself our there while building your brand.

The hardest thing is just starting. There are no excuses. The only person to blame is yourself. Make the moves to move yourself forward. You are the only thing standing in your way. If you only get one photo our of these shoots you are doing, you are one photo closer than you were yesterday. Don't let yourself get down on yourself. If you suck, your photos suck, get better. The only way to get better is to do it. Over and over again. Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes you better and then you have to keep getting better. Learn from each shoot. What can you improve on? You don't know if you don't try so just DO IT (thank you #nike).

The more you do the better you will feel. Don't get caught up in the game of procrastination. Don't even let yourself go there because it is a rut where excuses rein supreme and everything becomes more important and you never start. Everyone was where you are now. The only ones who make it are those who work their butt off.

"The struggle you're facing is a test to see if you're truly committed to the life you say you want." - Unknown

EKA