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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Where do I find good photography to look at? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Quiet_Nectarine_1740@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Hi, so lately I've been going through a photography block for months and because of saturation of images on social media like Instagram, I was wondering where do you find like genuinely good photography to look at? You know something that really resonates with you and sparks your love for photography again...

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[–] RedHuey@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Go to a library and look at books. Books come from an ancient time before the internet told us all to think with a hive mind, so they can be useful to discerning actual ideas.

Look for photography collections. Preferably in B&W, which will both tend to be older and focus on concepts like telling a story and composition.

All the internet gives you is ten million examples of hyper sharp, over saturated, millionth of a second exposures, of birds doing something birds do, but that the lucktographers couldn’t be bothered to actually try to photograph.