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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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I don't know what to do with my photography (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Di-ebo@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I've been taking pictures for about almost 4 years. I used to uploaded on Instagram and Facebook so other people could see it. But right know with the Insta bad algorithm I'm trying to find what to do with my pictures, because I love sharing them. One option I thought was to print them and gift them, but thats a little expensive and I take too much photos. Also I was thinking on making a website for store them like a virtual gallery or maybe a blog, but I'm not sure if it worth the time.

What do you do with your photos?
And what could you recommend me to deal with this feeling?

Sorry if I'm a little vague with my feelings but its the first time I feel like that.

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

I'm in the hobby for me, not other people. The world and I has seen so many pictures it's very hard to be unique enough to show interesting pictures. I see lots of beautiful pictures over the last 30 years but I've seen them before in so many cases.

I used to worry about it but decided photography is so much more than a picture, it's about the experience of the getting and editing them.

So when a picture pops up on my 15" electronic picture frame, it brings back memories for me. I don't care if it's not something unique and different.

Those from trips that my wife and I really like, we print and hang them.

I've watched a lot of You Tube videos on a wide variety of photography genres to learn lots. One of the key takeaways is you're not always going to get the shots you want and to take the time to enjoy the experience. Just don't snap, snap, snap. And to be flexible to take pictures of something else and enjoy those pictures for yourself.

So I have my pictures on my hard drive, I put them on an SD card and load them on my picture frame. Straightforward, easy to do and maintain as I keep a folder on my PC for those I put on the frame.

For my most favorite pictures I'll be getting them together and transferring them to my phone. If people ask me about my hobby, I can show them. Maybe 30 to 50 pictures that I'll keep changing up. Because after that, nobody will look at them anyway as there's just too many and as I said, they likely seen something similar before.

It's allowed me to relax and renew my interest in the hobby again.