Photography

Yes friend. Most professionals wouldn’t have ego and would actually be helpful. If there’s a way I can help you let me know. I’m sorry that you had a bad experience there.

No, what you're seeing here are people who won't be honest with you and stroke your ego, and you loving it because you can't take the truth. You're seeing and hearing what you want to.

Stop going to social media sites, and try forums specifically tailored to & for photographers, but only if you want honest opinions. If not, then you're right where you should be.

Outside of Reddit? There are countless of those people inside Reddit too!

Welcome to the internet.

Every form of social media seems to suffer from this.

Opinions are like a-holes. Everyone has one and most of them stink.

Tell me you shoot Sony or Canon without telling me you shoot Sony or Canon.

Lol

There are a lot of toxic egos everywhere. Especially on internet forums. The internet is garbage in general. I don't even know why I'm here. At least it's better here than over on YouTube where I would have to watch Manny Ortiz do his next cum tribute to the camera he's switching to this week.

Sadly you find them in any kind of group. Look up Dunning-Kruger Effect and add in some brand snobbery and you get my point.

You should see r/beatmatch

I think photography and music have a higher chance of attracting already insufferable people, not that it makes them that way. It's an 'easy' way for people to come off as creative and artistic, and you can walk around with a high-end camera as an accessory without any effort. That pollutes the pool of people who genuinely want to use photography as a tool to create art or do it professionally for work.

Not just outside of reddjt

I have such a bad experience meeting other photographers in the wild. Telling me my way of doing things isn't right, that my gear isn't good. Like dude, I didn't ask.

I don't know your experience, but there are some incredible forums on Flickr. The only "toxic" one I've come across is the the Street Photography group, which for some reason seems to be part of the gig when it come to street photography.

Some readers have lots of experience and what some readers take as ego is actually a simple fact. Some also have opinions born of that long experience. Some are tired of answering silly questions and they often come off as a bit too harsh. I seldom critique the images I see because they are terrible for any number of reasons. I see a bad image and I keep my mouth shut because some posters have thin skin.

I am set in my ways and I know how wrong some people are. Still, I remain quiet about certain things.

I always try to be polite.

honestly man most people who spend a significant amount of their free time on forums is probably miserable in their real life.

you lost me at "outside of reddit". I see many egos here in reddit too. dont let it despair you and never care about downvotes. This is just a website.

That’s people everywhere. Also many of those who are toxic are just insecure about their work.

I don't know if the people are more 'toxic' but there are a lot of the blow-hard gear dweeb types in the community.

This sadly isn't relegated just to photography but almost all hobbies and professions. There are a lot of insecure gate keepers who wish to keep newbies out and protect their fragile sense of falsely gained superiority. Thankfully there are also a lot of amazingly kind helpful people too if you look. But you can very be scared off unfortunately.

If you insert literally any word before forums, then you have the basic ideology for the entirety of Reddit.

Best place to get advice is in a book. Takes a hell of a lot to get published in a non-fiction field. That is burden of proof alone. How can you ever trust anyone from Reddit? I don’t even trust myself.

I have ran in to this on the app Threads. Very condescending and opinionated. Unfortunate

That's just called the internet.