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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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This is exactly it! It’s not “what is this photo supposed to say to me”, but “what are you trying to say to me through the photo”.
Why did you take it? What made you stop? What did it remind you of? If you can’t answer any questions, then yes you’ve taken an uninspired photo. Rarely is a photo both uninspired and beautiful, but happy accidents do happen! The reality is we all take uninspired photos, and if you shoot enough you’ll have a whole separate life’s body of work comprised of uninspired photos.
Posting the uninspired photos to the internet for critique or for attention is what we see a lot of here, and I think that’s what gets people all fussy.
IDK. I shoot landscape. The only reason I take a photo is because I think the scene or some elements in the scene look pretty.
My goal is to make wallpapers. Something pretty, not too distracting, and would look good as your phone/computer background.
The reason I even got into photography to begin with is when I got my first computer and fell in love with all the nature wallpapers I'd find on the internet.