This is not the first time this has happened-especially about my photography. Some fears-
- Uh...photoshop what? The last time I used photoshop I had braces, my nose was too big for my face and I still thought shaving between my brows was a good idea.
- What if I'm no good? What if I don't really have "an eye" or "talent" and what I do have is luck.
- Photographing cute kids makes getting great pictures a lock. Can I really just market good looking people and turn away the awkward?-how bad of a person does having this thought make me. Pretty bad.
- How does one even start a business? a business what? Taxes? Website? Marketing? UHHH RUN!!!!
See, my real fear isn't that I'll fail. If I try and fail, then really I'm right back where I started. With a lot of money invested in a camera and gear that sits on my bookshelf in a pretty awesome camera bag. what happens if I learn photoshop and I love it and my business takes off. I dont know anything about having my own business. I don't know anything about really succeeding. I've always done average (ok let's be honest, below average) in everything {other than my job at Inwest. I really rocked that}. I am terrified of success. I am terrified of tapping any potential I may have hidden in me.
But it would be awesome. So who knows, maybe I'll grow a pair-take a few classes, and by this time next year have my photography gig up and running.
3 comments:
Deb you are an amazing photographer. You have an eye for unique and that is something important in photography. I know you can do this and if I were there I would be your first subject.
I think you are pretty successful at being awesome. So you have that to go on :) So you rock at photography and suck a business? Guess what? There are people who are crappy photographers who are good at business. They are called "partners". You'll work it out. Cause your awesome. (see how I brought it all back to that?)
Dovy can get you started. Mr. Entrepreneur here. And I'm already getting hired for design, but I want to be really good, so I'm taking courses online with Lynda. I'll do your business cards! :)
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