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>it's another episode of /p/ overvaluing the concept of originality
News flash, literally none of you faggots are unique or original. Literally not a single one of you. In fact, the more you know about photography, the less original your work becomes. If you know about basic concepts like the rule of thirds, leading lines, etc then you're already following a set of guidelines, the same set of guidelines that millions of other photographers are already following. The end result of course is that you'll end up composing your photo in the exact same way millions of other photographers have already done. Does this make your photo unique? Absolutely not. Is your photo still good? Depends on how well you executed it.
In fact, the only truly original works are snapshitting retards who don't even know how to operate a camera because these people aren't bound by the constraints of established compositional theories. The types of people that'll take a crooked photo of the statue of liberty with half of its face cropped off. Any photographer who knows their shit would never purposefully take a photo of the statue of liberty in that way because they know it's poor composition. So the snapshitter ends up taking a more original photo, albeit a bad one, than other experienced photographers.
Fuck, this even applies to the best photographers in history. Originality isn't what makes their photos good. Its the content of what they photograph and their ability to be there to capture it. Look at pic related. Tell me what you think is original about its composition. Fucking nothing, and that's okay. A photo doesn't have to be original to be good. This photo in particular is great because of the context of when it was taken, not because of how original it is.
tl;dr None of you are original. The best professional photographers are not original. The best photographers in history are not original. No one is original. Fucking kill yourselves, retards.
