It will now be 10 years since I took on my first photography job. It is very interesting how many ups and downs such a journey has.
In the last ten years, I have gone through every possible range of emotions that I could: there were times when I worked in a complete trance state, when there was neither space nor time, only the moment and its beauty. It was also like I was scared because I felt like I was completely burnt out. It was also the case that I was incredibly curious about something professional, and I didn't sleep for a night, just working / thinking about it. There were times when I was so angry that I could have smashed my camera to the ground, because not even a single photo would turn out well. Sometimes a photo turned out so well, I felt so happy that I could catch a bird with me.
But that's how this sport is, they say, in fact, I think every profession is like that, if you do something with all your heart and soul .
By the way, product photography is a very interesting thing in my life. I clearly didn't like it at first. Product photography is a typical industrial activity. It requires precise and accurate work, where you have to polish the product hair by hair exactly as it looks perfectly. There is no side talk in the product photo, it requires a concentrated work ethic . You cannot be artistic, as in many areas of photography, you have to work precisely here, otherwise customers will not choose your client's product based on your photo.
By the way, I am originally a machinist, so I feel some parallels between product photography and mechanical engineering. Product photography is most reminiscent of metalworking, like turning or milling, where if you made a tenth of a mistake, you could throw the entire workpiece in the trash.
Many times, when I took on product photography "out of necessity", because it was like that, I scolded them a lot. I found it boring. But otherwise, looking back like this, he taught me a lot . I learned self-discipline through product photography and humility.
At the beginning, at the age of 20, I often had a tendency to think in a bipolar way: something was either black or white. Now I think about it differently: in addition to black and white, there are ten million shades in life that can be experienced, and often it is not so much a situation that: I like it = I do it, I don't like it = I don't do it. The product photo pointed out that you often have to do things that you don't currently like, because you will learn from them. It is simply happening now so that something more, something bigger will be created later.
I think that if I hadn't learned to take product photos (in my own way, of course, but there are much more skilled product photographers than me), then I wouldn't be who I am, professionally or personally. Today, I look at this area quite differently.
By the way, my short story was an introduction to the product photos of the Apissima Apiary, which I photographed this month.
You can see all the pictures here:
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