Do you need inspiration for your photography?

[@danfiorephotos]

Ted, great way to share the creativity of your audience… this format is a “keeper” . Thanks & take care, Dan

[@AndresGonzalez-nj5ky]

Hi Ted, what a great way to showcase what to do with failure or mistakes. There's great potential in these "crisis" as we forces us to look at our work from a fresh perspective, it takes off our blinds and helps us approach things differently.

[@susanneh2207]

Glad you found the energy to redo this video! Looking forward to the next one!

[@chrispatmore8944]

What needs to go hand-in hand with inspiration is motivation, and I don’t mean what pretentious actors are always asking to have explained to them. I get inspired with great - and not so great - ideas all the time, but finding the motivation to get off my arse to actually do them, or follow them through to the end, is another matter entirely. Conversely, when I’m not feeling inspired I will just go and do something and see if it will get the creative juices flowing.

[@johnhawkins1606]

Love to see this format again.

[@photomitch]

I'm always inspired, my problem is getting out to do the work, but at times life gets in the way.

[@masscollective2415]

Thanks for sharing our work Ted, we really appreciate your kind words about our zine .. keep up the great work you’re doing for the photography community!!

[@francescorusso4379]

Great stuff!

[@henrywoide2578]

Cheers Ted!

[@alexanderpons9246]

If memory serves me right you did a video about not being perfect years ago, but yes glad you mentioned what one of the viewers who sent you his worked said "allowing myself to fail and try again" is part of growing in any form of Art. Glad you erased the video clip that pushed you to make an even better one. Thank you Ted Forbes for loving Photography and for this wonderful channel you created!

[@BrettOssman]

That part that caught my attention most, was finding something that leads to creative options. Then it's not the boring, same old, same old, anymore. I started a Facebrook group last week about "unusual" photography. I was hoping to get posts of something "unusual", be it subject, composition, perspective, post processing, etc. Anything goes.

[@Viator19]

Hi Ted. yes love the format of mail and subject to talk about. Great work

[@andrewchambers9752]

The mail videos are my favorite as well. Thank you for sharing what everyone shares with you.

[@amyverhague1491]

I love it when you do the mail videos!

[@chunglinglo9687]

Love how you connect other art forms as a source of inspiration! Beautiful books!!

[@cevisuals]

This is the topic I enjoy hearing you discuss Ted - Thanks!

[@PeteCocoPhoto]

Love this video, Ted! I come from a similar path. All of my formal schooling is in music (I'm a double bassist), but about 2 years ago I started my journey as a headshot and portrait photographer and recently launched a photography KZbin channel. Musicians make great photographers, I've been told! I thoroughly enjoy your insightful and thoughtful content.

[@NatyMidnight]

Funny enough, I am here because I need inspiration outside from the travel/gear/day-to-day similar photography stuff I follow :) I bought a fuji ex-4 simply to take photos of the mundane and hopefully in that to improve the way I see light, composition, and to be inspired from the boring things in life.

[@davehandelman2832]

This is great Ted. Love seeing what people send you!

[@davehandelman2832]

@Text me on telegram@TedForbes awesome!!! Get FUCKED

[@gnuhapi]

Excellent, Ted, great subject and examples of those who respond to their inspiration. More, please...

[@R8135003]

That horrible feeling when I thought I had deleted all of my daughters Uni graduation photos. I saved the day but I know how you must feel. A wise man once said, "The harder I work, the more inspired I get." Be lucky stay safe.

[@AristeidisSfakianos]

I am such a big fan of all your work Ted! You have been a great inspiration to me! I hope some day in the near future I will print my own zine and send it to you!

[@sbai4319]

Thanks Ted. I would love to see more videos of all kinds. Long term subscriber from Australia 🇦🇺

[@jasonblackman]

Yes I love today’s episode. Thank you for going forward when stuff enters a fan. As a suggestion, a Squarespace tutorial would be kinda cool. I have one as well and am running into a few weird issues. Also I have ideas for the site, but not sure how to go about it. As you’re going through your site, it may assist our design journey Lastly, one of my favorite things you do is the mail haul. Seeing what everyone is working on is so inspiring (not that you aren’t). Keep doing your thing, Ted. Your channel keeps getting better.

[@charliewaterman816]

Love this brother! And such a good topic. It's funny how people think of failure. It's nothing to be afraid of! It means your trying, and provides great learning points. And happy you didn't just do a quick knock out of the same video you did yesterday. Even not seeing it I can tell this is a much better video for the topic at hand! :)

[@jamesurzykowski4918]

It sounds the the first stage of old age. Welcome to the club Ted. I have always enjoyed your videos showcasing other peoples art work. Keep it going, when you have the time.

[@jeffoffej]

Ooh, I really dig this format Ted. It is inspiring to see how others are getting their work put together and out into the world. Love the Chopin Noctournes. I come from a background in writing and a favorite quote about inspiration-maybe along the lines that Matt commented about-comes from William Faulkner, “I only write when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes at nine every morning.”

[@alma175w]

Nicely done - really appreciate the intent and the form of the video. Inspiration doesn’t always have to know the outcome, I think that’s the message that I heard.

[@RR-bd4bm]

Thanks Ted, this was really nice. Your tech stuff is good too, but I think you really shine when you do philosophy of photography or inspirational ideas. Keep these videos coming!

[@HiddenLight]

Glad you made the video again - even if you weren't particularly inspired!

[@JOBAfunky]

I do like it when you present and review viewer content.

[@ArminHirmer]

very interesting, thank you Ted

[@GuitarRJP]

Ted, I needed this video! I just found out that I am off work on Friday, and the weather is supposed to be decent, so I am looking forward to go outside and take some photos and videos, and hadn't really thought about the "what" I was going too shoot! I actually have a new lens that I bought this winter, but haven't used it outside yet, so I think I will take that out and get inspired!

[@michaelmauch3112]

Damn Ted. It’s been a minute since I’ve seen an AoP video and was struggling to find a creative focus for a while. Then out of nowhere I decide to check this video out and I feel all these creative ideas coming back. Appreciate it man and hopefully soon I’ll have something to send into a mail vid

[@ULATAN.]

I really like this format Ted. More like it please 🙏

[@subrotomitra]

Thank you, Inspiring indeed ..

[@billgreen1140]

Yes, I like this type video. More please.

[@davekosiur5162]

I did t know if anyone mentioned this in another comment, but - speaking of nocturnes - don't forget the paintings by Whistler titled nocturnes. Yet another aspect to the word.

[@Manu-ho3bw]

Great work!

[@kevinl1492]

Do more of this!

[@gerryphilpott9766]

Very nice. I enjoy the approach and always good to mix things up and keep it interesting. Always a big fan of new and established work being exhibited whenever possible. Keep up the good work.

[@bigshooter461]

This is funny I had a similar experience on micro level just this morning, loosing "my work", I was writing a very heartfelt and creative message and as I got close to the end my phone died and I lost the entire message, it was very complex and tied a number of ideas together in a creative way that came to me in the moment, and flowed, it all just came sequentially, it was a very inspired moment. When my phone powered up again I just didn't have the inspiration to try to recapture what took me nearly half an hour to write and refine and expand and tie together. All that said when it comes to inspiration it really can be the birthplace of increadible work, but, I think I love Chuck Close's quote best, I came across it for the first time when Christopher Neiman sighted it in a documentary oddly enough someone who knows a little bit about Abstraction aswell, but the quote he sighted wrang very true with me. I had heard Annie Leibovitz say as artists we sit around waiting for inspiration and I just had to dissagree, I mean I wish I could turn that on, but I think Chuck hit's the nail on the head, when he says " inspiration is for amateurs, The rest of is show up and get to work" that's really just a part of the quote but it's true. There have been times when I had work to do and I just wasn't feeling it, and I mean sometimes you really gotta feel it to get in that flow, but when I just pick up and get started I find as I begin to shift focus, those ellements and details of the work begin to shift your focus and even if you aren't scrambling to write down ideas that came to you in an epiphany and loving every minute of what you're doing, as you begin to get it in gear and get it rolling it's surprising how it starts to come together. You never know where those first steps take you and how intuition, experience begins to dirrect you as you begin to come in tune with the work, even when you don't have some bright shining star of inspiration to lead the way.

[@david_allen1]

I loved the content of your video -- it was well inspired, and I especially liked the display of other's art that you showed and gave encouragement for, and the comparison of music and photography, two passions of mine as well. I had to slow the content down to 80% speed because your speaking pace is so fast and I began to feel overwhelmed with everything coming at me -- there's very little breathing room between thoughts (due to editing?) which allowed scant time to absorb what you were saying, before you were on to the next thought. Well worth seeing/hearing. Thank you!

[@marcmeinke9690]

I love the format Ted, your videos always inspire me to try out new things. I especially love how you introduce photographers art, since they always let me see thing from a different perspective. Similar to Alec Soth's YT Chanel, it would be cool if you could take a closer look at your viewers work (with their consent).

[@mikemichaeld2259]

I love your videos yep there great, I am a photographer and I am lucky enough to get to collaborate with beautiful people and love to work with beautiful music it's so awesome to get on the same vib and then have the music lay its flavour on the images that you can see in their eyes

[@TimberGeek]

I like the mail videos.

[@gordw6402]

Your videos really shine when you bring YOU in (ie.music knowledge). Couple ideas. Self publishing options. Copyright application procedures(US).

[@stefanski8620]

what services print those photobooks? they're really cool

[@minisla]

All I need is the weather to play ball....

[@Francois_L_7933]

You know, there is such a thing as un-deleting. Even formatted cards can be recovered using programs like Recuva as long as you don't write to them in the meantime.

[@UR-manden]

Ted... Let's get some tunes (from you) as an intro to the next video... I would like that... been so many years since you did that.

[@romainriviere4997]

Yeah !

[@louhautdavid6451]

Success and failure are certainly a requirement to build one's own coherence but doesn't always match to the viewer's opinion. All this is under the iceberg and the public rarely cares about your sweating. So there's no way out enjoying the process.

[@MaiElizabeth]

To me personally, inspiration usually comes from a photographer who talks more on technique rather than the equipments because equipments are usually the things, one of the things that makes me less inspired to be better.

[@antonroux6737]

Anything that is talking about art and artists and methods or techniques is better than videos about equipment. Also when there are so called reviews about equipment they are only really useful or meaningful to the extent they compare in relation to other equipment. It’s great to hear about the Leica M11, but how do its images compare to Hasselblad X1DII or GFX100S, or any of the other full frame systems? This simply should not be ignored, otherwise it is tantamount to advertising. I suspect Leica may not be so keen on this given the price involved but it can be compared on price to compact medium format which is closer but still cheaper but I think you kind of owe it to your subscribers to be truthful and informative. Agree? So I would welcome a gear review or comparison that is genuinely helpful in that regard. I’m any case, opening mail videos are fine and an obvious way to show a level of engagement with your community

[@adamborwick1246]

Are there any recommendations for photography books to find inspiration from?

[@markhckidz87]

by the way, what gear did you use to record this video?

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

I really like this subject/format but would like more time to see and digest the submitted works.

[@mralexlex]

Thank you for inspiring video!~ :)

[@BADHABITSGOODTIMES]

this was a good video...

[@asdkant]

This is why people who make money with their cameras like dual slots =P

[@farhandabu1401]

build a museum

[@chrisecker9341]

Everything has been photographed in every way and style. There is simply no room for further development. Today photography is all about copying and imitation of shots we have seen before next to many facts that photography lost its status anyways. I can‘t see new upcoming artists who can be compared to the big names of the past. Art market is all about shots from the past with a few exceptions like Gursky. Pro photographers struggle with income and amateurs are more into gear which keeps industry alive. „It‘s what I‘ve never seen before that I recognize“ D. Arbus. More or less, photography is dead.

[@Hamzakhan-dt3gv]

Nice video

[@artemhvozdkov7072]

Dear Ted. Im your great fan from Ukraine. In Kyiv . Please tell your audience that Russia attacked my country, tell your opinion ! I want to shoot photographs , not to shoot people. Dont be neutral. People must know

[@PeteCocoPhoto]

Hey Ted you've got a scam account going on - look at the reply to my comment below. There is another account with your name trying to scam people FYI.

[@john-lenin]

The rent

[@NoosaHeads]

I suggest you slow up your speech to approximately half your current rate. A lot of what you say appears to be incoherent babbling. If you want examples of excellent speakers, check out Enoch Powell (British 1960s parliamentarian) or John Howard (ex Australian prime minister) these two people are the finest examples of cogent orators. I'm sure you could become greatly improved with minimal effort and practice.