Comments on: Be Who You Is

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:19:57 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Mark. It's a great reminder to me too. I think we all go through phases and this is the stage where you are defining yourself. So enjoy the process and explore! Oh, have you built your trolley bag yet? 🙂

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:49:01 +0000

Hi Jenny,

It was great to have met you as well the other time. Definitely won't be the last time. Thanks for sharing your thoughts as well 🙂

By: Jenny Sun

Jenny Sun — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:49:24 +0000

ps: it was so so lovely to finally meet you in person and your gf recently!! Hopefully it wont be the last time! 😀

By: Jenny Sun

Jenny Sun — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:48:26 +0000

hey mark!! I am totally ALL for the BE YOURSELF motto in this market. When I first started years back, I felt the HUGEST need to conform – especially since I am a girl. I had the worst remarks thrown at me, and was laughed at, so I tried really hard to be 'all things'.

now I realise, be yourself. And get your clients by being yourself! 🙂 If clients are booking you, for YOU, that is the biggest compliment. Besides, its hard pretending to be someone you are not for the next 10 to 15 years! 🙂

And don't be down about where you are heading. Its so funny, i was just talking to some other photographers in the last two weeks, and it seems like everyone is feeling the whole 'everyone is going places, but I'm being left behind' phase…It was so encouraging to talk to them and push them along, and vice versa. TRUST me when I say that i totally believe EVERY photographer out there has these low moments… even me! I had my most recent phase last week which I hope to blog about next week… so lets pull together and encourage one another. Its not about being the best out there. The sea is too endless. Its about being the best YOU can be 🙂

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:49:36 +0000

Andy: I will make a blog post of it when I actually start working on it. Plan to get the luggage tonight as I saw some shops have 50% off on some bags which are quite cheap.

Ian: Thanks bro! I definitely need more practice as well.

Nicholas: Think of it this way, as a musician myself, I might use the same chord progression as the other masters but the feel and the style I play those chord progression will definitely be my own style. Same goes for photography, you might pose couples the same way as other photographers but how to pose them, how you set the setting and how you post process them, its all part of who you are. I can definitely elaborate a lot more on this as well 😀