EX110 Limiting beliefs

Limiting beliefs may be the root cause of being stifled creatively. They are the sort of things we really don’t notice until we bump into them or intentionally work on them.

Basically, if we believe something is true then it is true for us.

There are so many possible limiting beliefs that may effect our lives in so many ways. The beliefs may be internal about us, or about the way the world works, or even about other people. We may even have beliefs about how art works.

In this weeks exercise, I ask you to spend some time over the week thinking about what ‘Limiting Beliefs’ you may have. For this exercise we are looking for ones that relate to your practice as an artist, though ones to do with the rest of your life may also come up. Once you are able to identify a few, you might like to prioritize them. I think it would be most helpful if you only worked on one. Creating a long list and trying to change them all at one is asking too much of ourselves. It may also be harder than you think to change them.

There are many ways of changing them. Re-framing them is one good way. Tackling them head on by creating artworks that challenge them may also be another good way to addressing them. It is this last one that I would love you to try.

Lets put it in steps:

1. Identify some limiting beliefs that interfere with your art practice as a photographer.

2. Prioritize the list

3. Work on the top Limiting Belief

4. Identify how you will reword, change and modify this belief

5. Take photographs that work towards the new re-framed approach

6. Post three photographs and tell us about the limiting belief that you were working on in the forum

Here are some examples of my limiting beliefs that I have worked on over time.

1. You can only take a good sharp photograph on a tripod

2. Taking too many photographs is a sign of weakness

3. Never put anything in the centre of the frame

4. Cameras are meant to be used in a certain way

5. The sliders in the post processing software should only be moved a little bit

6. I am not good at colour

7. Colours need to be accurate to my memory

8. The light is terrible

9. There is nothing to photograph here

Post your photographs in our forum at the post here https://lensclub.discussion.community/post/ex-110-limiting-beliefs-11652439?pid=1325323793#post1325323793

Video of our discussion is included bellow in two parts.

The Pieman River, The Tarkine, Tasmania