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Creating a body of work: Classic Cars
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“Your body of work is everything you create, contribute, affect, and impact. For individuals, it is the personal legacy you leave at the end of your life, including all the tangible and intangible things you have created. Individuals who structure their careers around autonomy, mastery, and purpose will have a powerful body of work.”
― Pamela Slim, Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together
Selling Your Photography, Artwork, Brand – A body of work is what separates the random lucky shot from a consistent effort of producing great images. String together a few years of “lucky shots” create from a continuous effort to improve your art and you’ll develop a serious body of work and find a style.
“Consistent impact over the course of your life on a body of work you care about deeply is legacy.”
― Pamela Slim, Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together
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A body of work showcases what you can do and proves its not about luck but a dedication to one’s craft. A vision, an eye, a style and talent, all developed over time by dedication and persistence.
Finding the subjects, exploring the area, developing the models, getting up early, staying out late, returning to a location time and again to capture the best light.
“Focusing on building a body of work will give you more freedom and clarity to choose different work options throughout the course of your life, and you’ll be able to connect your diverse accomplishments, sell your story, and continually reinvent and relaunch your brand.”
― Pamela Slim, Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together
Learning your equipment, learning post processing, experimenting, testing, developing, learning, teaching, and especially looking. Looking at great images, going to shows, going to museums, looking at books, looking at magazine, looking at the world around you. All the while taking photographs, deleting photographs, editing photographs, reshooting photographs, printing photographs, selling photographs — adding to one’s body of work.
