Figuring it out

Some of you may know this, but I haven't actually done any proper shoots in a long while. Even if I've been inspired by this and that, I haven't gotten down to shooting any proper portraits. The reason is simple, to be honest. And it's that portraits have gotten too comfortable, too repetitive for me. All I'm doing is changing the background and the model, the way I shoot remains the same. The way I pose my models remain the same. The way I compose each shot remains the same. Maybe it's because I don't have crazy ideas for each and every shoot, but shooting portraits had gotten slightly boring for me. I attend workshops, but it only makes things worse.

And I'd grown sick of keeping a portraits only feed on Instagram. Because when I'd started this shit, I never had any intentions to stick to one genre of photography. I was largely influenced by VSCO, and its community. And by that, I mean I shot random things - snapshots if you might. Taking a photograph of a nice landscape, a cinematic street shot, a documentation of a haircut, a touristy portrait, and sometimes, a random flower. You get the point. At some point, I started to only focus on portraits, and neglected everything else. Maybe that's why I got so creatively frustrated. I was holding myself back by only focusing on one genre. I wasn't being myself anymore. That was never what photography was to me. Photography was a way of documenting my life. And portraits? They don't do that, unless I'm taking photos of the people who mean something to me.

I got lost along the way of my photographic journey. Sidetracked, misled by this and that. It was a long detour, but I guess I'm back. And if you'd been keeping track of this blog, you'd see how many detours I took, how I've been trying to figure myself out on this blog. It's mad, my mind is everywhere, it's messy.

I like taking photos of anything and everything. I'm not afraid to say it, but I'm a VSCO kind of guy. So give me some time as I figure out the different kind of edits needed for the different kind of photos I'll be taking. 

I don't think I'll be doing any portrait shoots in a while, instead, I'll be focusing on documenting instead. Coffee shots, who I hung out with, a random scenery, nice aesthetics. I don't know what I'll be shooting, and I think that's what I like.