Top 30 Lessons I Learned in Photography School

1.  Your camera is good enough

2. Don’t leave home without it

3. YOU are good enough, be yourself

4. Shoot what you are most interested in

5. Break bones, not joints

6. Show me something I didn’t see

7. “ The thing that is limiting you , is you”….

8. “ Get people interested in what you are doing and take some risks.”

9. Workflow: download and upload after every shoot and back up, back up and back up.

10. Seven Mantras:

    1. Light

    2. Access

    3. Self-portrait

    4. Ritual & Routine

    5. A room of our own

    6. Network

    7. Dream Big 

11. Shoot in Raw

    Jpeg – 8 Bit – 256 shades between pure black and         pure white

    RAW – 14 Bit – 16,384 shades between pure black and white

    You have more information for post processing

12. “ If you want to get better, you have to shoot.”

13. Discovering your voice:  “if we do what we have always        done, we’ll get what we have always gotten.”

14. “ If it bends, break it.”

15. “Passion is not a plan, it’s a feeling.”

16. “You create life by living it.”

17. “To live a life of meaning and value, you don’t follow your passion, your passion follows you.”

18. “Passion is not a job, a sport, a hobby, it’s you full force of attention and energy that you give to what’s right in front of you.”

19. Let shadow be a key component of your work, the more light the less drama.”

20. “ The eyes should learn to listen before they look. “  Robert Frank

21. “be curious”

22. “ You have to be willing to seek. “ Pharrell Williams

23. “ Don’t forget, no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.”  Charles de Lin

24. “ If you want to be a better photographer stand in from of more interesting stuff.”  Jim Richardson

25. “ Our job is take those unknown places and make people care about them.”  Jim Richardson

26. “ Eye, head, heart come together for a moment.” - Henri Cartier Bresson.

27. “ Life is once, forever.”  Henri Cartier Bresson

28. “ Always have a personal project, that body of work will mean something to others in the end.”

29. “ Life is bigger than a paycheck.”

30. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself,   not the life others expected of me.”  Bronnie Ware