This is dumb and I know it shouldn’t bug me, but it does…
When someone takes a similar photo as me, but it’s not nearly as good, and it gets more appreciation than mine.
I do filming location photography, and there’s a while group of us in IG that do the same. I take time to get nice clear high res screenshots and will meticulously line up my shot to perfectly match the scene from the movie/show, edit it for color and lighting and make the whole thing look real nice to compare the 2 and I’ll get maybe 50 likes on IG or reddit.
Then one of the others makes a post where their “screenshot” is just an out of focus picture of their tv and their comparrison shot is clearly trying to match the angle but it’s off pretty bad, not editing is done, it’s just a poorly lit cell phone snap, and they get 300 likes.
Again, I know it shouldn’t matter and in the end it really doesn’t, I do this hobby for me, but it also kinda sucks putting in all this effort just for people to appreciate a pic that barely has effort put into it
I know how you feel. In high school I was in a photography class and we were covering shutter speed and aperture and I really wanted to showcase my ability to capture movement so I planned a shoot with my friend who was in the drama program and I had everything set up and I was pleased with the results I was getting they were beautifully exposed with rich colors from the stage lighting that I programmed specifically for this shoot. Then I submitted my work for critique and I was eager to get feedback on how I could improve but only three people commented on my images and they said the most shallow of things I’ve seen. Slightly annoyed, I went to look at my classmates work and I was shocked by how they essentially just put their slightly blurry vacation pictures and cliché instagram photos on google classroom every one of them had ten or more in depth comments.
I don’t pay too much attention to how many likes my photos get. Sure, it makes all the happy brain chemicals hit, but people are so fickle.
For instance, I shoot a lot of astro. Several months ago, I posted a single shot nightscape that was way over-fried of a local landmark. Got a little over 10k likes. A ton for me as a novice. Well, I just posted a large-format version of that shot with proper post processing, much higher resolution, much clearer…
This is dumb and I know it shouldn’t bug me, but it does…
When someone takes a similar photo as me, but it’s not nearly as good, and it gets more appreciation than mine.
I do filming location photography, and there’s a while group of us in IG that do the same. I take time to get nice clear high res screenshots and will meticulously line up my shot to perfectly match the scene from the movie/show, edit it for color and lighting and make the whole thing look real nice to compare the 2 and I’ll get maybe 50 likes on IG or reddit.
Then one of the others makes a post where their “screenshot” is just an out of focus picture of their tv and their comparrison shot is clearly trying to match the angle but it’s off pretty bad, not editing is done, it’s just a poorly lit cell phone snap, and they get 300 likes.
Again, I know it shouldn’t matter and in the end it really doesn’t, I do this hobby for me, but it also kinda sucks putting in all this effort just for people to appreciate a pic that barely has effort put into it
I know how you feel. In high school I was in a photography class and we were covering shutter speed and aperture and I really wanted to showcase my ability to capture movement so I planned a shoot with my friend who was in the drama program and I had everything set up and I was pleased with the results I was getting they were beautifully exposed with rich colors from the stage lighting that I programmed specifically for this shoot. Then I submitted my work for critique and I was eager to get feedback on how I could improve but only three people commented on my images and they said the most shallow of things I’ve seen. Slightly annoyed, I went to look at my classmates work and I was shocked by how they essentially just put their slightly blurry vacation pictures and cliché instagram photos on google classroom every one of them had ten or more in depth comments.
I don’t pay too much attention to how many likes my photos get. Sure, it makes all the happy brain chemicals hit, but people are so fickle.
For instance, I shoot a lot of astro. Several months ago, I posted a single shot nightscape that was way over-fried of a local landmark. Got a little over 10k likes. A ton for me as a novice. Well, I just posted a large-format version of that shot with proper post processing, much higher resolution, much clearer…
Barely getting any traction.