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

I’ve been doing this 23 years. The number of shutter clicks is irrelevant. A year is not long enough to get good.

You’re getting the technical skills under your belt. This is great. You’re on the right path.

Your images really are fine. A couple of them even verging on good. This is a particularly challenging subject matter.

Focus some attention on studying composition, storytelling, and the decisive moment.

Digital makes it way too easy to take way too many images. You’re wasting shutter clicks.

Give it another year or two while spending more time seeing and less time clicking. You’ll get there. As long as you don’t give up.