There are plenty of ways you can improve your photography. You could get inspired, learn new stuff, go out and shoot, make mistakes and learn to correct them… But you know what else you need to have if you want to become a better photographer? “Patience you must have, my young Padawan,” as Yoda would say. In this video, Pierre T. Lambert gives you five ways patience will help you to raise your photography to a higher level.
Why patience is crucial for street photography
Sometimes you have to build your own ‘decisive moment’, and it can take some time.
It was another normal saturday park walk, my camera was carelessly hanging from my right hand as I walked with a few not-that-great shots on the memory card. By that time I already had made peace with the fact that the day would not bring me any amazing images but then something caught my attention, I noticed that someone had written a sentence on the wall of the park’s pedestrian bridge (the sentence is in portuguese, I live in Coimbra, a lovely city right in the center of Portugal):
It is not normal for a woman to be afraid of walking on the street alone!!!
