Hi I'm Tamara Lackey, on this episode of
redefine show for AdoramaTV
I speak with Matt Kloskowski about his work in
landscape photography and education,
and he shares just how powerful it is to do
personal work that matters to you,
whether you're paid in money you could
spend, or feedback if you can keep...
Check it out.
In terms of the work you shoot, all the
landscapes which are beautiful, you do
great landscape work, you already know
that. They're just like.. Of course! You are
not really doing that, well, I'll let you speak
to it, like how are you getting paid to
do that work. I don't get paid to that
work, and I never I actually never did. So
I really went yeah, I really went right
into photo education. I was a coder
sitting writing code behind a desk, and
then I went right into photo education,
and I didn't know it at the time, but as
time kind of came on I realized... that's
that's my job! I'm an educator, and for
years I think I tried to be a
photographer. I tried to get known as a
photographer, you know? Well you are
known as a Photographer. Yeah,
but it's I really rather be known you
know the bet, if somebody would send me
an email, at the end of the day seeing
something good, I would much rather than I
get an email that says "Matt I love your
photos they're amazing", I would much
rather get an email that says "Matt
you're education, like you're... this class
helped me, I get it I never got it before,
this helped me get..." I'll take that email
any day, over telling me that my photos
great yeah that's interesting so so
because you get questions.. that people
saying to you, oh my god, that's amazing
who paid you to go out there. Yeah who's
the client? Or okay nobody pays me, so if
I do go, if I, nobody pays me to shoot
anything I do. Landscapes I mean, good
luck getting anybody to pay you!
But keep going, don't give up.
Nobody.. but I think landscapes and travel
and outdoors that's very approachable to the
people.. that's, that's, what the people
that I talked to were doing.
Yeah and it's inspiring.
A fun soul thing, to get really good at.
Yeah some people can get paid, I don't!
But, but, you're finding that a lot of it
is, it, you're able to then utilize it, as
fodder for your courses. Don't get to say
fodder every day, that was fun!
Good use of the word. As fodder for your
courses, but also a lot of this is
basically what you know will people who
are at the top of the game will say, all
the time, which is, go after personal
projects, shoot what you love! Yeah, go
figure out, find out what you want to do.
Shoot it really beautifully, and then
figure out how to maximize the effort,
and that's when my landscapes took a big
turn. Yeah, because when I worked at Kelby,
I was trying to be everybody, you know
one week, you would come in. The next week
you know car photographer would come in,
next week wildlife, and like everybody
came in. Like okay I'm going to do wildlife,
now I'm going to do portraits, no I want to do
cars, come on and go, all over the place.
You ere shooting portraits and
I didn't know you did
that... you're like 'I don't' So, so, I did, I
tried to be everybody. I was probably
trying to find myself in a way and then
I kind of realized like what do I like?
My landscapes, it was always what I never
minded getting up early for, and that's
what I like the most and
that's what I like to view the most. I kind
of just, I'd set my mind to that, like
whenever I travel to a city and go a day
early, and find something to go shoot, you
know, and just, and that, that, once I did
that, that, once I said that is my goal,
like the, the landscape work, got so much
better. Yeah, yeah, amazing, but where can
people go to find out more about you,
what you do, a lot of your awesome
courses? You ready for this it's going to be
a really long, long, convoluted website,
come on with a name like MattK.com.
I was like Matt K? You got MattK.. I know
that's awesome!
I didn't have it at first, I had it, oh I
has Matt Kloskowskiand, then I
was like, I was buying all the
misspellings of URLs of my name.
40 different websites..Forwarding them and I
went and like Diana, was like, my wife
she was like, why don't you get Matt K?
And I'm like well it's sold like,
somebody owns it. And then she like want
to see if we want to sell it? I'm like
you're good. Oh yeah, so I contacted him
and they sold it how much was it? It's
like 800 bucks. Oh wow! that's great!
Yeah that's a good investment, well back
then, back then, it was! Yeah that was like
she I almost got slapped for paying 800
when I paid it, but it worked out alright!
So do you want to find him? MattK.com
Thank you so much Matt, check us out here
next time on Adoramatv, and while we are
gone from each other,
check out all the amazing content you
can find right here on this channel