Meet Michael Evins

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I am a product photographer. I have been in this profession for the last 3 years and I have worked with many brands in the tech/work from home space. I love seeing something that I create for brands out in the world online and/or in stores. Creating a flatlay with relevant items to the product in my photography is the most exciting for me.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Three take aways for me is your work ethic, drive and discipline. I believe you can’t have one with out the other and each of them are crucial to getting any movement in your learnings and skills in any profession.

My thoughts:

Work ethic: For me this is an important because you have to be able put in effort to do the best work you can at the time. We all are an amateur at something when we start out, but putting in the best work you can with the time have is what’s going to help you learn and get better at what you do.

Drive: This is the second crucial part of the process. You need to be passionate about what you do otherwise you won’t want to stick with it. Drive is what gets you up off the couch to get to work on what you want to accomplish.

Discipline: You have to be willing to put in the time day after day. Most importantly on those days when you don’t want to, you have to make time to do it even if it’s only 30 minutes.

What was the most impactful thing your parents did for you?
I think something my parents did that was most beneficial was to let me do whatever I found interest in and nurture that spark into something I either wanted to keep striving to learn more about or not, and not forcing anything on me. I think this also holds true to when you are older. Sometimes you need to try a bunch of different things. You may think that the first thing you want to do is “your thing” when it may be the 5th or 10th thing. You have to be willing to pivot and move to the next thing when something isn’t working to find the thing that really excites you.