I am going to be honest anons. I am highly ambitious photographer and have a strong desire for critical acclaim for my work but I am not getting it and it is causing me lots of mental stress. I can't mange to live with myself. There are very minimal prospects of getting published from where I am. There is a deep rooted fear in me of fucking up and making mediocre art. I am not even "putting myself out there" because I loath myself that you still haven't forged your style, your education and practice is not complete and also because people scare me. I keep saying to myself one day things will fall into their place then I will be ready to take my shot. I don't know how to get myself out of this pit.
>>4471250Don't focus on being successful. Focus on just doing it. If you don't even have a defined style, you're getting way ahead of yourself by deciding you want recognition for your work.Forget all that shit, or at least put it to simmer on the back burner while you actually up your skills.What does your work look like? Post some examples so we can see.
The problem you have is you shoot for vapid likes and social media clout. I don't have that problem because I don't give a shit what people think, especially on faggot ass social fucking media. I have seen what makes them happy and I'm not at all impressed. These cocksuckers are obsessed with figuring out if you're a Democrat or a Republican before they cast judgement on your work. Go shoot what makes you happy and report back, stop giving a shit about your peers or even what retards here think, most of them are too busy arguing DxO scores and dumb shit like toneh and meganpickels and muh SONEEEEEEYYYYYI have a style and you either like it or don't, and whatever you think, I don't give a shit. What are you going to do, reach through the computer screen and slap me in the dick? Are you going to call my employer (me) and tell them my picture I took sucks and they should fire me? Who gives a fuck what some strangers on the Internet think, you go do what makes you happy and don't give two stinking shits about what some bedwetting teenie boppers on a Malaysian post card exchange BBS think about it.Don't even listen to me I'm fat and retarded.
>>4471250Post some of your best pics so we can meaninglessly nitpick them to death.
>>4471250post your snapshits to instagram.see which snapshits get most views.post more snapshits like it.repeat.
>>4471257Sugar, your landscapes suck and you're pretty cringe sometimes.But your nudes are actually pretty good and you're alright sometimes.
>>4471263come on I've had a few good landscapes, what about my cave work.thank you btw
>>4471250statistically speaking you're very likely to do mediocre thingsjust jump infront of a freight train
>>4471250Put your photo on instrgram, go spend $100 on fake likes and comments, and thats it, you are now just as successful as everybody else on there. You will also then realise that anyone you thought was successful was just doing exactly this and then you won’t care anymore. Once you have brought them yourself you will know exactly what fake likes comments and followers look like and suddenly realise that’s all 99% of anybody’s profile has.
>>4471250>Guys help I can't get famous doing <irrelevant, niche, forgettable thing>The age of photography is gone anon. Even at its height you were pretty fucked due to the barriers to entry like cost and knowledge. The barrier to entry is now gone and with it every Ching Chongnese with a phone is flooding the internet with ""content"".You're fucked. Not in a mean way, just like, you're plain fucked. The photography you conduct is likely of decent or better quality, but it no longer matters. All you can do is network your way in like a Joo.We are in the age of videography. More specifically short-format, vertical videography. I hate it, most people here hate it, but your audience (the masses) don't give a fuck, and if your video is longer than 20 seconds you're more likely to get famous by blowing a bunch of dudes and advertising it on facebook. Photography currently sits several notches below that. It sucks but it's reality.
>>4471278It’s just stagnant right now, I have not seen a single photo I’ve not seen before for years now. Somebody needs to create some new tech.
>>4471250With authority of a hobbyist with no public ambition I suggest: work for living and do art for yourself. If you have artistic talent you will develop a style by keeping on it. Even I did. (My 'style' appears to be abstract graphical nonsense with no general interest. But I do like it.)Photography or art in general likely is not the best choice for a living career if you can't comfortably interact with people and you are afraid of doing standard slop work. Because that's what those scary people pay you to do.
