In this video I would like to address a couple of comments that I got the other day when I did the video that talked about creating meaningful works is how I put at work of value

About putting the thought and the creativity and the effort in to at least make an attempt to

make your images over time extraordinary.

And it was really weird because I think that maybe it was too open-ended or something, but I had several

people that claimed that this did not

apply really to professional photography that the only people they cared about were what

their clients thought and someone had asked me do you think that this kind of creative approach applies to commercial

work? And I want to address that because yes, I think it absolutely applies to that approach.

Before I get into that, let me preface this by saying that I do not make my living doing client work in photography.

I do video work I do an artist series right now where I'm working with fine art photographers and that's what I do.

I am not a commercial

photographer. So if you are a commercial photographer this is a

discussion worth having and I would really like some input from those of

you who do make your living as photographers because I think this is a really

interesting discussion but I think it's important as well. My experience with

photography I've had a lot of friends who are commercial photographers

when I grew up my dad was a commercial illustrator and we had a lot of are commercial

illustrators.

And we had a lot of friends of the family who are

commercial photographers.

It's been very interesting to see how that business has changed over the years.

There are things that stock photography is replaced that used to have

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