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Rewind: What does it mean to be an expert?

Rewind: What does it mean to be an expert?

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Rewind: What does it mean to be an expert?

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- Hi, I'm Ben Long. This week on "The Practicing Photographer," we're taking a look back at our coverage of an essential skill that's worth looking at again. I will occasionally see someone referring to a book that I've written, or a course that I have here in the LinkedIn library. And from time to time, I will see myself referred to as an expert. For anyone who's ever referred to me as an expert, thank you, that's very flattering. I'd like to clue you in a little inside information about being an expert. I started writing about photography for computer magazines in the mid-1990s. I wrote my first book about digital photography in the year 2000. So I started my career as an expert before the era of YouTube and social media. But then, as now, to get assignments from magazines, to get contracts from book publishers, to get students to come to workshops, I still had to have credibility. In modern terms, I had to have a…

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