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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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I don't know what to do with my photography (alien.top)

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I've been taking pictures for about almost 4 years. I used to uploaded on Instagram and Facebook so other people could see it. But right know with the Insta bad algorithm I'm trying to find what to do with my pictures, because I love sharing them. One option I thought was to print them and gift them, but thats a little expensive and I take too much photos. Also I was thinking on making a website for store them like a virtual gallery or maybe a blog, but I'm not sure if it worth the time.

What do you do with your photos?
And what could you recommend me to deal with this feeling?

Sorry if I'm a little vague with my feelings but its the first time I feel like that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately Instagram's algorithm has changed a lot in the past few months and it's very difficult to get exposure in there, unless you use certain tricks (certain keywords that act as hooks, certain techniques like "read more in caption" and other crap)

This is one big reason why I don't really post too often myself.

As to "what do I do with my photography", I just ... keep what I like. The ones that I edit and export, I keep on my phone (in case I ever want to post something, or in case I want to show anything to someone), and the ones I don't edit are in an album in Lightroom.

But then again, i`m not a professional photographer so I don't make any money out of it. I just do it as a hobby and for myself :)