Comments on: Four Skills Needed to be a Photographer https://www.slrlounge.com/four-key-skills-successful-photographer/ Photography Tutorials and News Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 By: William Irwin https://www.slrlounge.com/four-key-skills-successful-photographer/#comment-628999 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:19:33 +0000 https://slrlounge.com/?p=355790#comment-628999 In reply to Ralph Hightower.

My brother took Dale Carnegie classes and that seemed to help him as well.

]]> By: Ralph Hightower https://www.slrlounge.com/four-key-skills-successful-photographer/#comment-628961 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:57:14 +0000 https://slrlounge.com/?p=355790#comment-628961 Great article.
For the soft skills, I recommend Toastmasters. I’ve been a member for several years and stepped out of my comfort zone as an introvert and served as an area governor and a division governor.

]]> By: Paul Wynn https://www.slrlounge.com/four-key-skills-successful-photographer/#comment-628954 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:41:35 +0000 https://slrlounge.com/?p=355790#comment-628954 Good overview and of course, beautiful images as ever. Thank you.

]]> By: William Irwin https://www.slrlounge.com/four-key-skills-successful-photographer/#comment-628930 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:41:46 +0000 https://slrlounge.com/?p=355790#comment-628930 Good post. I recently looked back over some of my film negatives and got to thinking about when I first started doing photography. I was extremely shy or what you would call painfully shy due to my Deafness.

I started breaking out of that shyness and acquiring the skills that enable me to do what I do today. Many of the soft skills did not come easy to me early on. That has changed. The one area I still have trouble with is some areas of communication. This is more a limitation that I have to learn to deal with and work around. For example, I am great working with Customers via text or email and can often close the sale for a shoot this way.

When it comes to talking to Customers on the phone I still struggle with this since I communicate through Video Relay Service. Its often the Customer perception problem or my inability to articulate properly through ASL interpreters that kills my sales. My primary language is English not ASL so I am not 100% comfortable communicating this way. I have no choice as my hearing aids broke recently and have not been able to replace them yet since it will cost me $2500+.

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