Regeneration has landed!
I’ll be running it for the first time soon and updating with my impressions.
Let’s talk about Limitless.
I manifested a photography mentor. Someone with 30 years of experience in their field.
I spent most of the day with her learning how to shoot and Photoshop. Both of these things I’ve been teaching myself.
While I’ve noticed an increase in my ability to maintain information and my desire to study, self-teaching is hard for me. I persist because I love what I do.
Today though I got what would have taken me weeks or possibly months worth of learning done in almost 7 hours with someone who shares the same passion as me. When you really like what you do, the time absolutely flies by, and thats what it felt like. My experience of time while learning felt like maybe 2 hours, if that.
Along with the learning I got critiqued on my work which really helped. She commended me for the amount of skill I’ve been able to obtain in just 70 days of owning a camera.
I usually take praise (and criticism) with a grain of salt, but I’ve found another 4 people who are photographers that I also speak to regularly and they’ve all said the same thing. I’m inclined to believe that Limitless has rocketed me far above what I would have naturally been able to achieve on my own.
Another thing that happened during our critique was she mentioned my photography technique was weak in some aspects. The improvements she suggested were actually always things I thought of first.
I would have the idea and then dash it for one reason or another.
“Would a professional photographer do that?”
“That’s not enough content for a picture,” etc etc.
I think its time to trust my creative vision and stumble and fall and learn by being myself. Otherwise I won’t grow. Its definitely very fearful to do so, because I’m now aware that I’m not doing so only so I can deflect blame when I don’t succeed. Something like “oh they didn’t like that picture, but I was only doing what I read in the book, so they’re not really critiquing me.”