>>3329600>>3329600>Why are you pointing out flaws to people that aren't asking for it?I don't know where you got this idea I point out flaws to anyone, at least not outside of /p/. On /p/ it's expected as stated in the sticky, I don't go onto people's personal Instagram, Flickr or Facebook pages trying to critique, because not only do platforms like that not invite it, but it's assumed if you're a pro photographer/seasoned hobbyist you're posting final images to those platforms and did the self-curating thing already.
>of course there are flawsYeah, some little part of the image is blown or crushed, a little tidying could've been done, subjective tastes, I get all that.
But based on the responses here, it seems like even people on /p/ don't wanna hear an ounce of criticism. But my frustration isn't even with that. It's that people are so eager to do the fist-name-last-name photography thing that they don't actually sit down and learn basic things. They spend more time marketing their work than they do actually improving it, because so many of today's photographers care more about likes, favorites, and followers than they do about putting in the time and effort to really try for great photographs, and it shows. It shows in the way they're content to let photos with bad light, sloppy composition, etc. get uploaded on their personal page with their watermark/branding, because they know someone's going to "like" it. Even though most of the time, people just "like" a photo of something they find pretty or interesting, and don't know enough better to be critical of the photo beyond that. Or they just like the subject in spite of of the image quality itself. This is why people think photography is "easy", and why it's not really taken seriously anymore, because "everyone is a photographer".
