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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'm close to giving up photography (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Weary_Second3871@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Heyoo guys. I have an soul roblem. I fell like i m still bad at photography. I took over 10k photos with a Sony a6000 in 1 year and only few of them are "good". I can t get out of this felling. I just began a photography course in my town, but i still don t think my photos are good enough. I allways wonder about time spent for over 10k, more precise 11 243 shots. And i look at other photographers having only 4-5k photos taken and their photos being so good. I just don t know what to do, i am stucked in this loop...Any advices?

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[–] Vocalscpunk@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

1 Don't compare yourself to anyone else. You aren't them. They aren't you. If you're doing photography to copy someone else then what's the point?

2 compare yourself to yourself, go back and look at your first few hundred shots and you'll feel way better about yourself. I routinely scroll through photos that are a decade old and think "WTF was I doing with this shot/edit" and will sometimes touch stuff up for fun to see how far I've come/how much my style has progressed.

Keep at it, the more you do the better you get, having a plan can really help me when I'm in a 'there's nothing to shoot' mood. Literally just got in the truck and drove hours to a mountain last weekend just to shoot leaves. Break the cycle. See you after your next 10k photos!