Ken Archer wrote:
"Do you
really want to be known as the woman here in town that takes great
pictures, gives great service and she is CHEAP?"
Ken, I am not sure why it was your comment in particular that hit home with
me, but I just had something else come to mind; on many occasions, I have
had people say to me (about many things, not just photography) "geez, that
is soooo expensive, but it's worth the money". I guess this is the point
that you guys are all trying to make to me here, and that this is the way I
should be thinking. I just need to gain the confidence and the trust in
myself to believe that what I am doing IS "worth the money". Hopefully, in
time this will come.
However, (now please don't attack me for being naive or over-sensitive
here), as most of you know, I have alot of stuff posted on Photo.net. NONE
of my stuff has ever received a critique rating of above 4 or 5 on that
site, I have this guy here in town (yep, the one hour guy again,) who
constantly looks at my stuff and picks it to pieces without ever having
anything nice to say, and I also have a good friend in Toronto who is soooo
talented and yet living on the bones of his arse cause he can't get any
work. I am entering some competitions later this month (locally/regionally)
and I am hoping that should I find any success with these, it will be a
little reassurance that I do have "what it takes". I know, I know, I
shouldn't rely on these sort of things for determining my "market value"
(hehe, sorry, that was a really bad joke from Temptation Island if any of
you watched it), but I just need to be sure that I can stand out from others
in my own right. Parents are easy to please, as long as their kids look
good, they don't care about the technical stuff, but I just want to be sure
that I am doing at least some of the technical stuff correctly too. I
haven't had anyone teach me anything or "mentor" me face to face, I have
learnt everything I know from books and the internet over the passed 9
months or so, and I guess this is where I get my insecurities from.
Sorry, rambling, yet again....
fairy.
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