What if the stuff you want to shoot is too far from the mainstream. I mean honestly, where does one find the teachers that could help you shoot two female tennis players tearing each other to shreds playing an epic grudge match with light bulbs?

I mean its a sort of Catch 22…on one hand you have to do stuff that catches their eye enough to have them let their guard down enough to really teach you the stuff that they have discovered over the years of trial-n-error…but by catching their eye…you’ve already allowed them into your walls of creativity. I don’t want to redo Anne Geddes, I want to push past her to the point where SHE thinks “why didn’t I think of that?”

Excellent advice. I once took a workshop with Robert Maxwell and he wasn’t the best of teachers. He liked getting stoned and tried to get the girls in the workshop to shoot nudes.