>>4055587Nah. I don't brag. Especially not on /p/.
Let me ask you: Have you ever taken a photo? Maybe not. So let me take a moment to explain to you how it works. I'll be specific about this shot, and we can then extrapolate from there into general principles.
I've got thousands of photographs of quail. (Not just any quail, these specific tribes of these specific quail.) My interest in photographing them for the past year and a half has been to learn more about quail. Going out and spending time with the quail is the goal. The photos are just there for fun and as an excuse. I'm not a professional wildlife photographer. (Wedding couples don't move as fast or erratically as quail, so it's good practice.) But for this shot, there was a female quail hauling ass in front of a pretty backdrop of well-lit grass.
My primary "goal" was to get the grass in the background. (Because it was pretty, as per my thoughts on what "pretty" entails.) When sitting down to survey the results, I am left with a choice as to which I am going to post to my low-volume Instagram feed: Do I choose the one with the one with the better background, or the one with the tack-sharp eye-reflections of the quail? I chose the former. Obviously, this didn't meet with your exacting editorial standards, and that's okay. Why? Because there is no photo that I could ever take and post to /p/ that would not be met with condemnation.
This is why I come to /p/, though. I use you unpaid slaves as a source of free market-research. Should I ever encounter one of you autistic nophoto creatures in a professional context, I will have all the information I need to deal with your cunning shut-in wordcel wiles. I transmute your nophotohood into a kind of gasoline and armor. The more you type, the more photos I'll take, the better I'll get, the further the gulf will widen, and I will continue to make happy customers, while you continue to languish on literal fucking four channel.
Type more.
It feeds me.
Do it.
