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>>171714 Is that sarcasm or genuine hero worship? If the former, fuck you. If the latter... actually, still fuck you. There's nothing wrong with lecturing me. And he raises some interesting points :-P
>>171710 >This makes me want to ask what should be considered real or acceptable (hobby/amateur/art) photography? Doesn't matter. The key is to take pictures you enjoy.
What you'll find is that If you shoot enough, and if you look at enough other photographs, you'll start to get a feel for what makes a good photograph. Like you'll find that the more basic light-trail photos you look at, the more you're bored by basic light-trail photos. You'll start to identify the sorts of things that good photos have in common (good composition, interesting subjects, no distracting elements, etc).
Keep going, and you'll start to identify the things that *great* photos have (multiple layers of interest, especially interesting subjects or just finding the one interesting angle that makes a boring item look amazing, etc).
Eventually, you'll look back on your older pictures and notice that most of them are pretty lame. It's not that you're now just mindlessly trying to please your peers or that you've "sold your soul to the niche that feeds your bills", it's that your tastes have matured and the things you thought were super keen when you first started out just aren't enough to hold your interest anymore.
So what makes a *good* photo? It's one that you like when you take it and still like years after you've taken it. The main peer you should be trying to impress is yourself in the future. Impressing others is often a side effect of that.
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