It's over, lads. I've given up on my Instagram photography page. I watched it slowly die over the years, while other snapshitters gained tens of thousands of followers for posting reels of tHe PrOcEsS and talking about how they made the photo, only for the end result to be "in another post" so you had to check out their profiles, or they'd say "I will post the result if this reel gets X ammount of likes". Apparently people like that nowadays. I never really liked to talk about my art and photography. Always considered that a photo has to "speak" by itself. Either way, I saved some of my favorite shots, and I will dump them here. Bear in mind, they are screenshots of my posts, as I never bothered to back them up to any cloud, and recently my SSD went bonk. Was also too lazy to figure out how that data exportation feature worked on Insta. So I hope you can get over the low quality of the images.Cheers, hope you'll enjoy them. Feel free to criticize them if you want. My only intention is to share them with people who might appreciate them before they all get lost in time, like tears in the rain.
>>4502894I dig most of these, but why would you care about other accounts being more popular? It’s something you do for fun, no?
>>4502955true, I do this for fun, will most likely keep doing it, but I won't post them on Instagram to train their AIs anymore. It's not like I care about other people's success, but I do care about people's inability to admire plain photos anymore and let their imagination go at it. Nowadays you have to put in effort to "sell" it and talk about it. I never was that guy.Or maybe it's just me being a sorrow fuck and venting. I don't know who to blame for my page dying. Kinda heartbroken about it, but I'll move on.
good for you for getting off of instagram. i don't think i follow your reason for leaving tho..nice shots anyway. you have good variety between abstract and straight
>>4502961to be fair, man, I'm not sure I know the reason either lol. Let's just say I got sick of posting and getting like only 10 likes. Plus I know that Meta trained their AI image generators on users content without their consent, which I find kinda scummy.
Last image, ladies and gents. Cheers!
>>4502909my fav>>4502921this is pretty cool too
>>4502958Never blame external factors, always blame yourself. Your work receives no engagement because it is not engaging. It is beginner / student / I've had a camera for 8 months tier. It is important that you understand that. Doing shit for LIKES are you INSANE, pull your pussy out if that's what you want. Develop a vision first, then judge yourself on whether you executed that idea. The AI will scan your images wherever they are so just let it go, it's already too late, treat your work like a buddhist sand mandala and throw it in the fire because the goal is to keep creating. Keep it up!
>>4502993Is this some type of copy-pasted rage-bait you guys are doing around this board?>It is beginner / student / I've had a camera for 8 months tierHave you like... used your eyes?Develop a vision first, then judge yourself on whether you executed that idea.Have you like... used your eyes?>treat your work like a buddhist sand mandala and throw it in the fire because the goal is to keep creating. Keep it up!Alright, dude. If you say so, I guess.Goodnight.
>>4502984thanks anon, here's a swimming doggo for you
