"When an egg is broken from the outside a life ends, but when it is broken from the inside a life begins."

    Since I started in the world of photography, I have been blocked many times by letting myself be amazed by those incredible images that I saw on the Internet, many times this has made me doubt my own ability as a photographer, and it is that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't obtain results as magnificent as those of those I followed (and I still do).

    I constantly wondered what was the reason for that and I know that a lot has happened to them. I was constantly in front of the computer monitor watching tutorials on very varied topics as any beginner fills my mind with so many topics (frames, planes, angles, editing, retouching and stop counting), adding to this the hours I spent practicing everything I learned, although the results I obtained were not bad, nor were they the ones I was really looking for, I realized that my photos were empty, technically they were well executed.

    I decided to go away for a while to think why I was failing, it was then that my mind cleared up, I realized the truth, emptying my mind of everything I had learned I understood that my mind had become saturated with everything I learned by spending hours putting into practice all that diverse knowledge that the Internet offered me, it was tempting to go out on the street to shoot with my camera when I learned something new.

    I was diversifying enormously by letting myself be convinced by so many different opinions, as a consequence I forgot myself, I was just looking forward to the next video that would show me another way to go, for this reason I made the decision to stay away for a while and forget everything about photography.

    I don't mean that all those hours of rehearsal and error I went through were in vain if not quite the opposite, thanks to the fact that I saturated my mind with all that external knowledge was when I received a letter of silence which was titled ALREADY ENOUGH! You've heard too much, now you have enough technical knowledge it's time to remember your creative side of what initially made you take this path.

    At that moment I woke up, I realized that the answer I looked for all this time was very simple, now I knew why my photos couldn't transmit any emotion, they had been left empty because I focused so much on the technical, that I forgot to live the moment, my creativity was dying because there was so much noise in my mind, I forgot my own ideas and concepts that I had, although the one who pressed the shooting button was me, the photos were not.

    The most important thing I've learned over time is that you can't transmit a feeling you don't feel, our camera transmits to the world what we see and above all "feel", you can be photographing a happy couple kissing or simply smiling, but if you just take the picture to get out of the way, then your work will be empty, no matter how good it is technically speaking.

    How many times have we seen photos with horrible frames, badly focused, with high noise etc., but that still manage to get us a smile or simply impact us, you see what I mean? When we let all that external knowledge invade us we end up killing our own essence, we stop doing things from the heart.

    ¿You know something? I wish that you also get to feel as well as I do so much garbage and external noise as you can, go out and fail the times you want, because at the end silence always wins and when it comes will make you see things clearly, that's how I found my own style and while it's not immutable, because it continues to evolve over time, but no longer does from an external knowledge, evolve from my own interior and only from there we can be authentic.

           

• See you soon, tell me what you would like me to say in the next post, don't forget to leave your vote and follow me here and in instagram: @samuel_film

 This post is the English translation of my previous publication, it's all content is my authority, I apologize for the translation errors, I'm not good with English.  

#art #life #photograpy #blog #news #photo #work #inspiration