It's sometimes hard to keep track of our own progress. Everything we do is so subjective. But I just did something that anyone with more than a year on DPC can do, which really set the record straight for me. Check out the images in your first year here. Then look at your most recent year.
I have just finished my first year here, but you are right. I generally focus on how much I don't know and how much I need to learn. During weeks like this when I have an entry in voting that is doing really poorly I can question if I have learned anything at all about photography. However, if I look back over my portfolio I can see I may make a misstep once and a while but I on the whole I am encouraged by how much I have learned.
The key really is to stick with it, no matter how discouraging it gets. I know it's not fun getting low scores, but those are the images I look at most, to see what went wrong, why they didn't connect. Sometimes there's no answer, and it's just that my tastes are different from everyone else's, LOL!
Thank you, Margaret. Your first images here were WAAAAAY better than anything I posted for the first two years.
When I look back at my past shots, which goes back several years, I don't think I've really changed much. Most of my stuff is still pretty mediocre, as it was then. It took me a while to get over bad scores but I think I'm pretty much over it.
I pretty much shoot what I enjoy shooting and if people don't like it, oh well. If they do like it, it's icing on the cake.
I did manage to get one ribbon though, so I was happy with that.
When I look back at my past shots, which goes back several years, I don't think I've really changed much. Most of my stuff is still pretty mediocre, as it was then. It took me a while to get over bad scores but I think I'm pretty much over it.
I pretty much shoot what I enjoy shooting and if people don't like it, oh well. If they do like it, it's icing on the cake.
I did manage to get one ribbon though, so I was happy with that.
+1 (though I managed to snag two ribbons, it was luck more than anything else).
