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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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Do you share pictures of yourself and get personal on your photography page? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by 2deep4u@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Is your photography page personal, as in pictures of you, things about you, or etc, or is it impersonal; mostly anonymous, just your pictures, not much information about the actual photographer(you).

I ask because I can see benefits and disadvantages to both and I’m wondering what is better.

Having a personal page let’s people get to know and get closer to the photographer which is good if you want to shoot people for example

Making it impersonal just tells one about your photos which is great too, and affords you privacy.

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[–] cruciblemedialabs@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Sure. If you want to attract business as a freelancer, you have to build a personal brand. This goes double if, like me, you're a journalist that is paid in part because of their particular voice and point of view. Of course I don't mean you should shoot your mouth off about politics or whatever, but it's important for people to see behind the curtain a little bit. It makes reaching out to them easier because you know who you're dealing with and that they aren't just some faceless hired gun.