你為甚麼會投入攝影？因為你被那些出色的作品、精彩的影像所吸引，但是當你開始拍攝的時候，一定會失望，一定會發覺，你的作品與你的期望相差很遠很遠，為甚麼？怎麼辦？這段影片，是每一個攝影新手都必須看的 (有字幕功能)︰

這是來自 2009 年 Ira Glass 的訪談內容，在這兩年廣為流傳。大概的意思，其實就是指，我們是受到自己的「品味」所驅使，於是會投入創作和藝術，卻正是我們的品味，讓自己察覺到作品的不足，現實與理想出現一道鴻溝，是每個人的必經階段。但只要我們忍耐並不斷創作，始終會收窄差異。(雖然很多人中途就放棄了)

以下是原訪談全文︰

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you.

A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work.

Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through. –Ira Glass

這裏還有另一段最近才出現的影片，使用相同的獨白，表達更簡潔︰

各位攝影新手，每年確實有很多人買了 DSLR，半途就放棄，但請不要灰心，堅持下去，你始終會成功，你要相信起初讓你接觸攝影的那份品味與熱情。

via PetaPixel