Quote - how many hundreds of posts do the perennial "is Poser work art?" threads attract?  and how many people go on and on about creativity and tools and photographs?  but i've literally never seen a photo community with a gallery as unvaried in content and message as this gallery.

Photographers are pretty limited in what kind of work they can produce. They just don't all have access to the exact same model. And even if there are a lot of them who can reach one particular location, they're never there on the same day, with the same light and weather conditions, looking at a scene from the exact same view. Variety is an unavoidable component of photography, and trying to reproduce others' work with as much precision as possible is one of the best ways to learn the trade because it's actually hard to do.

Not that there aren't photography forums filled with what looks like the exact same unspectacular sunset posted over and over again. There are lots of those. But they tend to draw almost no attention and fall off the front pages into obscurity.

I expect that the galleries here and in other similar places are lacking in variety is because, despite everyone saying that they only produce or should produce art for their own pleasure, the neurotransmitter hit to the reward centre of the brain when we get a lot of views or comments "from the masses" is simply too strong for most people. So they make art -- and buy stuff that helps them make art -- that pleases the masses. And when it comes to poser art, the masses don't seem to have very original taste.

At least, that's how it seems if you look at the galleries here.

I think, though, that there is some truly spectacular art in the galleries here.  But OMG is it ever hard to find.

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