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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 1 year 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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[–] lorarc@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

But why are you taking pictures? I can name at least 4 reasons:

Memories
Hobby
Career
Art

And so:

Memories - doesn't really matter how good the photos are. They could be better but it's more important you took a photo of your trip to a different country and you can recall the good memories looking at them
Hobby - Having fun is all that matters, you can take the worst pictures but it's important that you're having fun. If you're not having fun then think of different hobby. I'm in this category myself and I sometimes don't even check my photos when I get back home. And I have multiple rolls of film waiting to be developed because I didn't feel like it yet
Career - This can be tough. If you can make living by shooting photos you're good enough. If you want to be a professional photographer but think you don't have the skill to it you may rethink your career
Art - Most artists take years to develop their skills and there are plenty of artists who never got "discovered". And there are plenty of artists who are famous but are not happy with their art. Art is difficult when you have some vision but the results don't match it but the only thing you have left is to spend more time practicing your skills