First 2,500 Hours of Deliberate Practice Learning the Art of Photography
This post marks the one quarter point of my 10,000 hour photography apprenticeship, which is an emotionally challenging milestone. In some ways this seems to have happened very quickly. Yet I am also very aware that it has taken me nearly 20 months to get this far, and at this rate I will not finish for another five years (60 months).
Objectively, I have achieved the following in the 2,500 hour of work over the last 20 months:
- Pressed the shutter release on my camera tens of thousands of times
- Achieved Licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Society
- Become familiar with the works of over 100 of the most famous photographers
- Studied painting and other forms of visual art in addition to photography
- Written posts about the nature of art, photographic composition, colour theory, etc.
- Moved stylistically from straight photography to a frequently semi-abstract style involving long-exposures, multiple-exposures or intentional camera movement
- I have carried out 5 commercial assignments for a high-end residential builder
- Have had an image accepted into an International Salon.
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