Motivation. That is the theme of today's video. And a couple days ago I put the first video up in our series of photography assignments that we're going to be doing and this met with a very positive response and I'm really excited about it. People had gotten in there and said, you know, this is exactly the motivation I need as

a photographer. I'm really excited to get going. That makes me feel really good

because I feel like we've got a project that's going to be a lot of fun to work on

and that we're all going to grow together as

photographers and as artists with our approach to photography.

And I'm really excited about this.

I also asked in that video if you guys had questions to leave them, you guys left some great questions,

I'm going to address some of those, and I had some people that had contacted me that I think there's a little motivation

required and that's what I want to address today.

So real quick, if you haven't seen that video I will

link it up at the end of this video but in a nutshell the first assignment

deals with this idea of variations so the assignment is is to find something to photograph and then do it 10 completely different ways.

Find ways that you can vary it up and do things that you haven't done before.

So the idea here, theoretically, is by the third or fourth photograph that you take you're going to exhaust all the things that you normally do with your approach to photography and then after that you're kind of in no man's land and it's going to be very experimental and you're

going to have to challenge yourself to come up with ways to make that different and

it's going to be hard sometimes and what we're going to do is collect all

these into our little journals just get them printed paste them put them in there

allow yourself to be messy and most importantly is that we're going to give

ourselves permission to fail and that is the most important part if we't make mistakes, we're not going to learn from them.

There's going to be some bad work involved. I'm going to submit some very bad work. I can guarantee you.

But that's the point. If you're not seeing bad work, then you've got nothing to learn from you're

not pushing yourself hard enough and I think that is the big key here so real

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