Forum: Photography


Subject: how to get noticed

NMDesertRat opened this issue on Jun 12, 2005 ยท 12 posts


Wivelrod posted Mon, 13 June 2005 at 7:23 AM

Good shots help :D - but obviously that doesn't help if your looking for help on improving and your not yet the ninja photographer you want to be. I do my best to comment on photos and post here in the forums, but photography isn't the only thing I do in my spare time, and the time I have to get my name noticed is limited. The sad fact is that you may have to get used to being dissapointed about the number of views and comments you get on your images, at least in the short term. If you have the time (unlike me), keep posting and commenting and hopefully you'll make some friends here and you'll get more and more feedback. I've even started posting on other sites to get a more feedback than I know I'll get in any one place. It's something you have to work on of course. Just posting photographs isn't enough. I've seen tons of awesome images here from photographers that get so little recognition its almost criminal. But people can not check everyone elses work all the time, there's just not enough hours in the day to keep on top of it. Heck, I have only 10 or so artists on my watch list, and I cant even comment on everything they post! Most people will only religously check the work of the people they like (be that personally or artisticly :oP ), and browse the rest randomly, its very easy to have your work buried by the other hundreds of posts. I find it dissapointing myself, especially when I put images up I'm realy proud of, or want feedback on, and then get little or no feedback. But I'm used to it by now, and I'll keep plugging away and posting regardless :O). Philosophically, one comments better than none. This may have been a bit of a ramble, but I've been thinking on this myself for some time and thought I would share my thoughts ;) Luv ya'all :P