So what you need to try to do, if your aim is to showcase your work and hopefully get new business as a result...is to look objectively at the work. Eliminate all those emotional triggers that you think make the image cool. And try to look at the image for what it is - good content. Forget the personal, even professional, narrative context for how the image was created. Those sentimental reasons and notions are only important to you. Not to the customers looking at the picture(s).
Photographers, especially those starting out, are notoriously sensitive to their photographs being reviewed or criticized. Sorry guys and gals - that's just part of what it means to hang your shingle on the door. Get ready. It's coming. And it won't ever stop. Maybe for some, it will never come easy. But that's okay, too.
It all comes back to infatuation again. Photographers are just too infatuated with their own images. And infatuation means you're too irrational and emotional about your photographs.
Yes... I always say to leave the baggage home. The image must stand on its own.
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