Trust your Gut

  

2011 © Suzanne Révy

Interesting post over at Conscietious this morning called Photography and Trust. Trusting your pictures is, as he says, important, and allowing your doubts to sap that trust can lead to what he refers to overcompensation with craft, using too many photoshop filters, 19th century techniques or toy cameras, for example, can lead to making pictures that look a like gimmicks. Ouch, feeling a little pang of doubt as I read it, because I've been using toy cameras lately.

Granted, all these techniques have their own look, and are hard to make your own, but having used a toy camera for the first time this past summer, I've decided to trust it. It allowed me a freedom to shoot in places and at times that had been more difficult or simply impossible for me with more traditional camera gear. I'm going to trust the pictures I made with it, and trust that the small portfolio that I have been working on lately, and trust that the pictures aren't a gimmick, but reflect the mood I was in last summer.