Sadly, I tend to agree with you, you can always learn something new from others, but little from a paid seminars. I done a lot of travel photography, in many corners of the world, and it is 10% about photography, 80% about having the nose for travel and experience and people, 10% is just luck and opportunity.
This sort of work is mostly about "shut up and go and do it", it is nothing you learn in a classroom or an a guided paid tour. It is about experience.
A good learning is to read when others have written and look at what others have photoed. Then try to copy it, go there, wherever, and enhance yourself and the result.
It is sort of getting along with people more than using a camera. Noticed when you come somewhere, pull out that big camera, and everyone freezes up and shun away from that "paparazzi". Have some fun "with" people on a location, don't document them as objects.
A seminar is a bit like a social meeting through, something like sharing a good bottle of wine, when it is over it is gone. That is maybe a value though.
Just a few thoughts.
On 02-Dec-2010 9:18 PM, Peter Forsberg wrote:
I think running workshops is mainly for those who have failed, are too tired to take more photos/come up with more ideas, or who just can't make the ends meet shooting stock (no offence WHATSOEVER meant to individuals who do run workshops or teach!).
I also doubt that taking part in a course teaches anyone anything - I have never in my life run into anyone (in any field) who would have taken a course and then gone on to become something extraordinary in that field. Besides photography, film, and literature, I have been schooled/involved in tennis, football (soccer), journalism, writing short stories/novels/factual texts, and some others.
A few months back a friend of my wife's took part in a course that taught "photography and travel journalism" (sounds appealing to many). I told my wife that her friend was wasting her time (despite the photo exhibition that was held at the end of the course and the diploma you can hang on your wall!). She said I was mean and arrogant. Now that about 5 months had passed since the course ended, I asked her was her friend now writing and taking photos for a living. No, she's teaching English and thinking about going to a kibbutz in Israel :) (and no mention of her ambition of last summer's to be come a writer and photographer)
Peter Forsberg, those who teach, those who can... etc
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "sjlocke" <sjlocke@...> wrote:
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> --- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Yarvin" <brian@> wrote:
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> > > I'm not sure what marketing yourself to other photogs gets you, unless you give
> > > workshops or sell stuff they want.
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> > Sean:
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> > Are you sincerely unaware of just how many people would sign up for "Microstock
> > Photography Workshop With Sean Locke" or a "Lifestyle Photography Workshop With Sean
> > Locke?"
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> > Really?
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> > > Marketing yourself to buyers, now there's a thought... :)
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> > ...a very important thought too...but in your situation, not quite as exciting as those workshops
> > would be.
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> > Brian Yarvin
> > Author, Educator, Photographer
> > http://www.brianyarvin.com
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> Ok, stop that, you make me blush. Point being though, that I'm not interested in training others right now, so building up a fan base of photographers is a waste of my time.
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> Sean L.
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