Don’t Listen To Me Or Anyone Else!

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Don’t Listen To Me Or Anyone Else!

matt_cinque wrote a simple statement

don’t listen to me or anyone else

It’s hard to gauge exactly what Matt was specifically meaning when he said that, but here’s my take.

As photographers, whether you are a photographer by trade or hobby, we are often open to criticism. That’s actually true of any art form really. In truth we look for criticism and help.

Photographers tend to have a thirst for both knowledge, critique, assurance, and for help. These rather technical little boxes we carry around can give us fits and what does that button do anyway?

That’s why there are an abundance of websites and blogs dedicated to sharing the love, knowledge, and scope of our work.

You can post your images on Flickr or any other forum and get feedback on your images. Ask questions and your bound to get answers.

You can spend countless hours googling photography questions and come up with an array of answers from any number of websites.

But why bother?

Why not go out there with your camera and just take pictures of what you like?

Why not just look at images you like and emulate those styles instead of being told what is good photography?

Why listen to anyone at all?

I think Matt’s point was that you just have to do what you like regardless of whether or not some bozo on the Internet says your supposed to do that.

Just do what you like.

Of course I could have it all wrong.

What do you think Matt meant?

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