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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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Perfectionism is ruining my drive to take photos (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by alpinab10v10@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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My photos rarely come out how I want them to (because I don't take enough pictures), and that puts me off taking any more photos because they all seem 'bad' to me. It's a sort of reinforcing cycle.

I try to take pictures of interesting subjects, in interesting lighting etc., but find myself putting the camera back into the drawer for another 2 months before I pick it up again and go through the same cycle. It's almost like I'd rather take no pictures than bad pictures.

Is this normal, or am I just insane? I neglected taking my camera on my last trip abroad because of this feeling.

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[–] Upstairs-Toe2873@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

It might be silly but I find that you need to have a good relationship with your camera, film and digital. You gotta get to know it and work out the right buttons to press to get along.