Is anyone starting to find the perfection of current photographs boring?

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I often visit the Sony alpha sub, and look at the top monthly posts. Every picture is immaculate, great focus, amazing subject matter, fucking godly backlighting, usually beautiful scenics, and while I cannot nearly even take a picture this well(props to those guys I probably never will) the perfection makes them seem less visually interesting to me…I also feel the images are a little bit over edited which makes them feel not even close to real. I also get the same feeling when I can tell the timing is made for a perfect photograph. Every image is perfect and beautiful and so so visually uninteresting. It almost makes me guilty thinking that someone probably spent countless hours to take this one photo then countless MORE hours to post process to create this visually stunning photo and I just scroll by it like it’s nothing.

There’s only so many golden hour / astral photography / breathing taking scenics you can see. Pretty photos are pretty but does that make them visually interesting?

Is reddit photography just geared towards certain subjects or what?

Has anyone felt this way? What the heck is the solution?

Posted Oct 29, 2022, 8:24 AM UTC · edited

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