Why no one cares about your Photography - Sean Tucker

[greybeard]

It comes down to why you take pictures in the 1st place. Are you taking them to please yourself or to please others. I know that I take them in the 1st place to please myself and post in the hopes of others liking them. Am I disappointed when no one likes or comments on them? Sure, but I still shoot to please myself because I don't know of any other way. This is why I am an armature and always will be.

 

[ACHILLEAS]

Achilleas, what does it tell you when "Mediocre Crap" does well and yours does not? Basically. you brought a stagecoach to a NASCAR race. You may be the world's best stagecoach driver, but the people there (judges) do not care.

I am trying to understand your analogy. Is that the stagecoach is slower or that is different? So I think I am better than I really am? or my style does not fit with the judges?

 

[ACHILLEAS]

It comes down to why you take pictures in the 1st place. Are you taking them to please yourself or to please others. I know that I take them in the 1st place to please myself and post in the hopes of others liking them. Am I disappointed when no one likes or comments on them? Sure, but I still shoot to please myself because I don't know of any other way. This is why I am an armature and always will be.

It was therapeutic to me. I did not go out much. It started just for me but then I needed validation. I got over it now. No stress to be liked when you shoot only for yourself.

 

[Grandpa Ron]

My point was even if you are the best at what you do, athletics, photography, music etc. there is no reason to believe that others will see it as important.

I do lots of things, including old time banjo, amateur radio, view camera photographs with a 1909 Senaca 4x5 camera I inherited; I even build English style Long Bows for traditional archery competition.

I find all of the tinkering and learning is very fulfilling, but I know the impact on others folk, is often, a strange "that's weird" look. Occasionally, I will meet a fellow hobbyist, which is fun. However, except on the internet, I have yet to meet a photographer, who thinks that dragging a tripod, camera, lenses, exposure meter, film holders, dark cloth and focusing on an upside-down reversed image, just to take a picture, is worth the effort.

I know that if I have to explain it, they wouldn't understand anyway. So, It doesn't matter, I find it to be quite rewarding, while other enjoy sitting behind a monitor and post-processing digital. Photography is a big tent.