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4-5 photos for an intro photography class. Advice on which are the best / shoop ideas?
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>> Anonymous
uhhhhh....
>> Anonymous
fail
>> Anonymous
>>171602
are you serious or just trolling me?

my heart sank... are they really that bad?
>> Anonymous
Photographs tend to be better with a subject =/
>> Serenar !m827jEgWi.
It's good that you got this out of your system early in your life. Now never take long exposures of traffic again.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>171603
Light trails like this are something really easy to do, and really hard to do well. Like flower closeups and sunsets.

Pretty much every photographer goes through a phase of shooting 'em, but they soon learn that nobody else cares. They're just not that interesting to look at long term.

But you're in an intro photography course, so you're at about the right level for 'em.
>> Anonymous
>>171657

This makes me want to ask what should be considered real or acceptable (hobby/amateur/art) photography? Professionals of course have already sold their soul to whatever niche pays their bills and can be excluded, maybe excused.

Personally i have defined my goal in photography as "one perfect picture." Naturally i dont consider that possible, with all the subjectivity and zen in the field, so i would be very happy to produce even something that would be regarded as a generally good pictures.

Then there's the aspect of people caring. Honestly, net is so full of photos. Even if you excluded 99% as crap, you'd still be left with many more photos you would ever want to go through. And this leads to a situation where even excellent photos have been done again and again, and will be boring to the viewer, who would likely stop caring. So.. Who in the end really cares about non-commercial work?

Now, i suppose that sounds a bit bleak, so here's the bright side for the amateur: You aren't a top player in the field. Frankly, you more or less suck. So, you can have fun while trying to improve your photography. Stick with your peer group and you can share and compare your equally more or less non-perfect and sucky pictures. Maybe you learn things. Maybe not. But it's fun.
>> Anonymous
>>171710
you dare lecture ac?!
>> Anonymous
>>171714

Actually i agree with ac, but what he said got me thinking. I linked to his post as a reference. Rest is addressed to anyone who happens to read it. It's also an opinion piece, not a lecture.
>> Martin !!ve2Q1ETWmJH
>shoop ideas

Dont shop, you'll impress and stand out against the others if your images are quality, straight from cam.

>>171598
this is also my favourite out of the 5.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>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.