Self Doubt and Being a Photographer

KYOTO & TOKYO: A Photographic Journey with David Brookover and Ted Forbes
December 2-13, 2024

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Ted Forbes
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[thisisframes]

Ted, thank you so much for mentioning FRAMES. We do appreciate it a lot.

[ksandven]

Thanks for this episode, Ted. Talking about cholesterol - look into fermented red rice supplements. It reduced my cholesterol from 6, 8 to 4, 7 in just 3 weeks.
Keep up the great work - love your channel!

[hovlandperspective]

I love how you pointed out that what we see from the “greats” or other successful creatives are the final and polished end product but not the process. How we can judge ourselves simply in comparison to their successes and their best of the best.

One book I always recommend should be essential reading for everyone, not just for those with already established self-doubt or imposter syndrome, is Magnum’s “Contact Sheets.” It is a beautiful, inspiring and powerful book that shows you just how many frames these immensely talented photographers shot through to get those successful images that they are known for. I also love how you sometimes get insight into the way they may have cropped the original negative etc.

Anyway, it’s a great book and definitely worth picking up. Whenever I am feeling in that rough spot on motivation and inspiration, it’s one of the first books I pick up.

[jmadsenphoto]

Hi Ted. Thank you for reviewing Bloodwork. Some great feedback. Much appreciated.

[brunopcan]

Coming back from holiday and seeing my book featured on your channel has really made my day. THANK YOU as always for your support, Ted!

[michaelharmon]

Self doubt is a daily issue for lots of people. How each person handles it is a personal choice. Here in China it isn’t an issue at least not for me. Another great video Ted.

[JohnHPettigrewFujishooter]

Hey Ted, I have watched your channel on and off over the past five or six years, I just wanted to say the title of this video is what holds a lot of photographers including myself back from taking the next step with photography, I am 61 years old and started shooting with a Nikon EM back in the day, I am passionate about photography but have never pushed myself towards doing what I have always wanted to do and that is make a living from photography, God I would be happy to sell a print LoL. I just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration to you and the talented people you feature on your channel. I have procrastinated too long it is time to create something. Thanks again for sharing.

[markpitocco]

Working in photography, for me, is kind of like riding a roller coaster. Long stretches where things move along at a normal pace and my feelings about my work are reasonable. Then comes the climb up a hill and the excitement increases as I see work of mine that feels good to me...until the inevitable downhill where my feelings lose their moorings and my anxiety about bs-ing myself come to the fore. My answer? Just keep going and keep the faith...

[dianeschuller]

I love these so much. How great to see Tomasz's FRAMES zine.

[LeeZee-btdq]

Thank you Ted for the information about Squarespace - construction is on the way for my first gallery ever! Been shooting for 52 years and now that I'm retired and living in Thailand I need to start selling my artwork.

[MichaelLaing]

As a neurodivergent photographer with serious rejection-sensitive dysphoria, depression and anxiety are probably the two biggest hurdles I have to face as a photographer. The issues I have are not logical, but anxiety isn't logical. I could win a major award one day, and the next feel like I am a fraud and failure.

It is easy to say to have to deal with it, but for the most part it is like trying to climb a mountain with 100lb of rock on my back and a landslide heading towards me.

[Photobuffeddy]

Wonderful Ted ‘ Great honest Feedback to those on going photographers - New comers . I hope to see you at Apple Park ‘ Tomorrow . I plan be at Apple Park + Watch The Apple live event ‘ Plus See YouTubers . Nice Videos . I am local to SF Bay Area .

Photographers ‘ can all be archive the unthinkable . We are all human

A human - Touch ‘ ❤

[jaughnekow]

i deal with self doubt a lot and it sucks but i do try to work through it to work on photography as a form of art. it is not easy but hopefully we can get over it.

[oldschoolcollodion]

It’s ok to have self doubt, it’s not necessarily a bad thing, the point is, do it anyway.

[Poverello]

Self doubt can be crippling, but in the end you can please all the people all the time, so you might just as well get your work out into the public and let the chips fall where they may.

[sfmoe]

"by viewers like you" had to check if i was watching PBS lol

[edruttledge]

"Self doubt" is a very western thing. I think Kaizen is much the same minus the Calvinistic gloom.