>>4358963This is generally true, and the decision to post it in /gear/ is poignant. The wording is comically aggressive, but it applies.
You can be a normal, successful person and never shoot portraits but a friendless incel with a camera is something else. You are sick, you are holding the cure, you're not taking it. Why?
I'll add some other peeves
>Endless stream of meaningless monosubject junk200 photos of your girlfriend at home? 2000 photos of your stubby legged mutt in grass or next to a bush? 20000 photos of your cat? More than 1 photo of a toy? These photos all have the same content. If photography were literature you would be filling pages repeating a single word. You are not outdoing your last photo. You are not replacing your last photo. They are taken days, sometimes minutes apart. Why are you uploading this? Just to be "le hasphoto"? You're posting the same photo over and over again like a ken rockwell or dustin abbot lens review... but you're not reviewing a lens and using consistent subjects for comparisons.
Someone will scroll to the middle of your 900000001 cat photos, pick the one they feel is most representative without being m43 tier quality, and delete the rest. You could at least keep the action and locale changing and tell us something about it. You could at least make it a time lapse project. But you're not doing any of that.
>"Wank"These are photos that may be unique and occasional but say nothing and have already been done by others like "bokeh animal". Essentially you are practicing, but not accomplishing, it's like playing a scale on an instrument.
>The landscape of DSCF42069A place without a name, not even an approximate location, not even the "nicest mountaintop in central colorado", you may as well have generated it with AI. No one has time to look for where you took a photo. If they find out it'll be from someone who took a better photo of the same spot and gave it a fucking title. The glowies already know where it is btw.
