Staying motivated with any activity can be hard sometimes, especially when it’s not going as well as you wanted. In this episode, Blake Rudis and Matt Kloskowski talk about a few simple ways to build positive habits and stay motivated with your photography and photo editing.
Side Note: Below is the graph I was speaking of during the podcast if you listened to the audio only version.
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.
Enjoyed this podcast. I learned on PS 3.0 with a book and took one lesson a week (during a very cold winter) and after a lot of practice I am comfortable with it. Truthfully I do watch your videos and do not retain it if I don’t use them. So appreciate the masking tools & Camera Raw. Sky replacement is great – LOL at the pen tool, hated it.
I’m 81 years old and if I haven’t learned this stuff by now I never will. I agree with you guys. Practice makes perfect. I would add that to get really good at anything one must be anal.
This has been such a good motivational session thankyou.
When I was learning PS from your Learn PS video I did just that: I created a Word doc for the instructions. It became my go to quick sheet to remember what I had learned from the video. Very helpful as it is so easy to forget something you may not use constantly.
I’ve been playing guitar since I was around 10 or 11, I’m 68 now. Even though I’ve never “stopped” playing, I’m not by any stretch of the imagination as good as today’s Nahsville studio musicians. But I can guarantee you that I can play things on my guitar that a Nashville studio musician can’t. I practice playing a couple hours every day. I’ve not been “playing” photography near as long, only since about 2007. I love both hobbies. Great analogies in this podcast – music, golf, painting, thanks to you both! (U.S. Navy Submarine Vet too.)
Many thanks Blake and Matt for this podcast and all videos you make. As a retired Office applications and Windows administration trainer I agree on everything you said. I can see from fellow photographers that the majority wants to learn and get quick results when it’s already too late e.g. when they want to create that Xmas wishes card… I do explain not to try to know everything from LrC masking all at once, but work on one tool at a time. Once they start to understand, they can combine them. It is an investment.
Thank you for taking the time to create this road map for us. We were reminded to take notes, build on what we already know, strive to be in that top 1%, try new features until we master them and take a few risks. I liked the analogies of golf and survival training…it makes us problem solve our way through the maze. I actually needed this pep talk because I feel like the struggle to stay creative can be overwhelming, especially when you are trying to find balance between work and life. Looking forward to more of your insights!
Well Well! First, thanks to Blake and Matt for this podcast. This is the first podcast I’ve ever listened to. Have tried one before and thought I was just going to listen to this one for a couple of minutes and turn it off like the other ones but, I watched all of it and it was great! Things that were said made me compare watching a podcast versus learning PS. I stuck with it and really enjoyed it. Just like PS, I put it off and then forget about where I started. Matt, I’ve had your PS course for years and never gone thru a fourth of it. I’m just thankful for LrC!!!
Thanks for the motivation, I really needed it!
Dan
I have Matt’s PS course too. I use it more like a “how to” when I don’t know how to do a particular task or edit.
I just stumbled on this podcast. Great Stuff! Love the graph and all the analogies. I’m a PS instructor at an art center. I know it wasn’t your intent, but both of you inspired me to become a better teacher. BTW, I’m hardly competition!
I’ve learned so much from both of you over the years. Thanks,
Jim Signorelli
P.S. Whistling Straits is the Bomb!
I understand the “temporal” aspect of the valley, but I know people (not just one or two) who have played golf almost their entire life and they never go past the valley of disappointment. I don’t know if it is the nature of the sport (obviously I am not a golfer) or what it is, but it must be very frustrating. Having said that, I know that you won’t stay there forever, Matt 🙂
Thank you for taking the time to do this inspiring presentation
Thanks. Now it’s time to learn more about Photoshop!
Thanks guys enjoyed the talk.
I love the Cartier-Bresson quote – My first 10,000 pictures were my worst.
Where do I find your podcast