Rediscovering the Art of Feeling: How VISBOOM Helped Me Reconnect with My Creativity

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For many, many years, I was constantly producing. I lined up all my project work, client photo shoots, commercial campaigns, and personal projects, which were all part of my creative life, nice and neat on my calendar each and every day. Everything on my calendar looked great. I thought of myself as a very productive, consistent, and technically good photographer. However, deep down inside, I felt there was a void within me. While I had produced many photographic images, I was not expressing myself through them. My photos seemed to lack emotional depth, and I began questioning what it meant to me to be a creative person. Even though I was producing photographs that met the technical requirements of photography, they no longer felt like a reflection of my creative vision.

What I was experiencing was not a typical case of burnout, but rather something that was affecting me more internally and dramatically than anything else. My focus on constantly producing had taken away from my initial intention of creating. After realising that, I tried to shake up my business by experimenting with new lighting techniques, props, and new subject matter. Unfortunately, everything I was doing was very repetitive, and I was focused on finding something new to create without returning to the core of what made me a photographer and my creative voice.

I then found VISBOOM. My assumption about VISBOOM was that it was simply another tool to enhance efficiency in creating projects. My actual experience with the application was quite the opposite of my assumption. Rather than enhance or reduce my creativity, VISBOOM grew my entire creative landscape. Because VISBOOM gives me the ability to freely explore different concepts without feeling pressured to achieve perfection immediately, I was able to analyse my creative instincts in a manner that has not happened to me before.

My initial project using VISBOOM was very intimate. I was interested in investigating what it meant to be a "self" (the definition of self in the constant flow of change between what is "real" and what is "imaginary"). In terms of how I would normally produce this an idea and emotion which is so abstract, I would have to hire a complete production crew (model, lights, crew, etc.), and spend many days building my ideas and emotions before I had anything I could use. VISBOOM allowed me to generate hundreds of different options in just a few minutes. Creating images with VISBOOM was very natural, and helped me develop themes and/or ideas that I previously couldn't articulate. The overall product was soft, ethereal, and introspective; it helped me express feelings and themes of curiosity, loneliness, transformation, doubt, and rejuvenation. My work has not felt this intimate, more honest, or more alive than it does now in the last couple of years.

The newly discovered liberation also transformed my approach towards professional projects as well. I remember creating a portrait campaign for a small wellness brand which was looking to capture images that convey warmth, comfort, and humanity. Before using VISBOOM, I would have spent days creating mood boards, scouting locations, and over-analyzing color palettes to create my vision. Using VISBOOM, I had the opportunity to work collaboratively with the team to determine the emotional direction we wanted to take long before we even shot anything. We were able to share ideas regarding tones, lighting, and how our story would unfold visually, creating a collective emotional understanding. When we arrived at the studio, everyone understood the type of emotion we wanted to convey and the poses, lighting, and composition of the images fell into place naturally. The final product felt genuine rather than staged.

As I began integrating the use of VISBOOM into my workflow, I came to the realization that artistry is more about clarity than it is about being an expert at every single technical skill. The use of this tool took away the confusion of making the final product happen, leaving behind only the core of what I was trying to communicate. Clarity leads to confidence, and confidence rekindles my creative spirit.

At one point during the VISBOOM project, I had the opportunity to go back and look at a personal project I had started but had set aside months prior. The project is called MEMORY TEXTURES, and I struggled to express the feelings I wanted to convey when I was working on it. However, because of my experience with VISBOOM, I was able to see my photographs from a clearer perspective. The soft halos, blurry edges, and subtle background tones of the images allowed them to relate the subtle emotional texture I had imagined. The final form of the project is not perfect; however, it is truthful to what I envisioned, and it is evidence that I never lost my artistic voice. I simply buried it under a mountain of expectations, timelines, and pressure.

Through this process, VISBOOM did not construct a new vision for me; instead, it created a new environment in which I could safely rediscover my original vision and intent. I don’t have anxiety about approaching a blank canvas anymore; rather, I have curiosity. I don’t make artwork to prove anything to anyone anymore, I now have a specific reason for making art, and I am much more thoughtful and authentic in the way I produce my creative outputs. The result of my work now is a product of my sense of presence rather than my sense of performance.

For me, creativity has never only been an aesthetic process, but rather the understanding of a "why" as to why something exists, or more specifically, a story needs to be told. VISBOOM has been the catalyst for helping me hear that inner voice more clearly. The VISBOOM app does not dictate the outcome; it facilitates the exploration of my creative process and allows me to experiment, explore and reconnect with the emotional core of my work as a photographer.

A photograph captures a moment in time; VISBOOM assists me in with pre-viz or imagine what will happen before it happens based on those images. The VISBOOM app has also reminded of the fact that creativity is not a finite resource but rather a lifelong journey in which we rediscover our creativity on an ongoing basis; with every project, image and version we create we rediscover or reconnect with the core essence of our creativity.

Now after several months of experimentation, I feel grounded in my creative process again. I now have an understanding of what I previously did not: productivity without a presence will not result in creativity; as such, I have come to understand how tools like VISBOOM bridge the gap between imagination and actualised expression. Creating at its heart is not about making stuff, but rather being present with those ideas, motivations and emotions that lead us to create.

With VISBOOM, I have not only regained my artistic voice; I have discovered a new freedom in using it.