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

My friend, you are doing fine. I can't pull up Imgur at work, but I don't think I need to. You are just a year in. This is kind of to be expected, don't let it get you down.

If you can manage one photo a month that you are happy with then that is a good goal. You don't see the tens of thousands of bad shots everyone takes every day.

I picked the hobby back up about 6 months ago and I'm sitting at about 14k images taken and out of all of those there are probably about 5 that I consider great, and a bunch that I consider to be okay.

Also, don't discount the ones that don't speak to you today, you may review them 6 months from now and find a gem.

Another thing that has helped me is to spend some time studying art, color theory, and composition. I found it a lot easier to learn from the perspective of someone who paints/draw and then translate those concepts into framing an image.