yes this is under discussion but that’s bc i needed under something and there’s no rant tag so here we r. i don’t rlly want advice unless you’ve got inspiring words or experienced something similar bc i’m on a thread🥲
i’m in honors photography which is AP but we just don’t submit our work to college board yet. which means we are working on our sustained investigations, which is basically where we experiment with photography while exploring a question ig? i can’t explain it better than that sry. but although i get to use my creativity without too many limits except 1, due dates. i love taking portraits and on top of that am a junior in high school behind in her classes, i don’t have the time to find models that matches my time frame while also working on classes i actually have to put brain into. i have so many ideas for my “hobby” photography and i don’t even have time for “class photography”. i can’t quit for too many reasons i’m not gonna list. it’s just so frustrating. and i have other hobby’s that i have that i haven’t even been doing on top of that.
You may have a bad teacher or you may be running into a reality that all creatives face when they try to take a hobby beyond that… at some point it does become work, and you have to learn how to manage that transition.
I’ve been a pro for 27 years. When I was a student, the gains came so damn quickly because I knew absolutely nothing. A year or two in your gains slow down very sharply and you have to work harder to make those incremental improvements. You can learn 75-80% of what you need to know to be a great photographer in a year. That last 20% is gonna be a bitch. If you want to take it beyond a hobby, you have to realize it won’t always be fun, and you will have to learn how to work at some point. If you can’t get past that jump it may not be for you. …. Or maybe you just have a bad teacher.