>>4495503
Buy photo books from photographers that inspire you. Keep them on your shelf most of the time. Pull one out with a cup of coffee and some music when you have some free time. Works for me (though I'm not much of a photographer).

move to video nigga
or AI gens

photo is fucking done and buried

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>>4495503
>average 4chan poster
Many such cases

I haven't lost interest I've just been working 90 hours a week and getting my dick slapped by life.

>>4495539
Lol I'll never get over the cat basedjack. What a cutie patootie

>>4495503
Well, it is winter with snow, darkness and cold here so yeah, my will is gone at the moment, but I can understand a general feeling of losing interest as everything is overly saturated these days which means you will have to work even harder to get any sort of feedback or reaction, but this again can elevate your photos. Also youtubers suck anyways.

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>>4495503
Funny how that works, for me photography brought me enjoyment and the will to live.

>>4495538
: (((((

>>4495559
Don't listen to him and continue honing your craft of analog film photography and printing. The pendulum always swings back. Just watch.

>>4495542
Vit D supplementation can help with SAD.

>>4495540
>90 hours a week

You need to look at maybe getting a different job mate. Working extremely long hours is not good for your mental health. I know, I've done it. I know that switching is undesirable and stressful. But it would give you a new freedom in life if you did at least shorten your hours.
I switched from working long and lonely hours, to working with a few other people, on shorter hours, for the same money, and it was a far better experience.

>>4495561

I'm trying but it's just one thing after another. I'm getting a new clutch apparently and that's 5k. I'm breaking even at best and I need to get some money saved up so I can get out of this thing and have a life again. Every time I get a little bit of money something breaks and I'm broke again.

The good news is, at this rate I'll have a new truck by the end of the year. The clutch was one of the last wear items left. All I have left now is the injector six pack and the gearbox itself and the engine internals.

If I did the inframe, six pack, new cylinder head, new oil cooler, EGR cooler and 13 speed upgrade, I would basically have a new truck good for another 1m miles. It will cost me drastically more than that to buy a new truck.

The good news is, now I'm going to have to come home at some point and move my Jaguar now that I got it repaired so that will give me a shot to do some shooting.

>>4495572
Fascinating! Can I read more about it on your blog? I'm so interested in your car rebuild.

Yes. Had a year and a half break. Then I got a nice camera and begun taking photos every day again to justify the purchase. Got me back into the rhythm of it. You probably just need a break OP

>>4495503
cut way back on your social media time. go outside and find things that visually inspire you. watch movies, listen to music (actively), go to museums, go to busy public places.

>>4495503
I didn’t lose my will to be a photographer but I got very camera shy after I realized my photos are boring and suck dick. A real punch in the dick after nailing the easy technical stuff and getting into analog, developing and scanning my own stuff.
I bought some Magnum photo books and the new print of The Decisive Moment and instead of inspiring me it just made me sadder at my own lack of skill.

>>4495503
I did, i took a break for months and watched bunch of movies and music, eventually you will get back to it if you have a small camera to experiment.
Took me 4 or 6 months, give or take.

>>4503612
>my own lack of skill
>Magnum and Decisive Moment
Those are milquetoast books, most Magnum shooters are quantity > quality people and had someone else develop for them, Cartier-Bresson was a hack and did the opposite of what he taught, do not be beaten down.

>>4503612
Loser mentality.
>>4503663
M43 sparked joy for tog to resume their journey

>>4503664
Who are some good photographers to focus on?

>>4495503
I haven't been able to get into it since covid. I keep trying to, but I have little to show for it.

>>4495503
Once. One day I quit. I tried to find one specific important photo and had to sort through 30 folders and 3000 jpegs to find it. So I quit. Why this?

I had a small camera on me. At the park. At the store! At home. In the backyard. Driving to work. I took 3000 worthless snapshits because THE ONE YOU HAVE WITH YOU. That meme is mind fucking poison. Small cameras are antithetical to worthwhile photography. They’re always there desperately wanting to be justified snapshitting worthless uninteresting trash that belongs on an iphone camera roll.

Looking back, small camera heroes like garry winogrand really did not deserve success or recognition as photographers. Their photos were just as shit and what little good they did, they went out of their way to stage and therefore could have brought a bigger camera. They only stood out because it was unusual for someone to waste that much film and actually know how to use a camera (googling a tutorial wasnt a thing yet, and inflation adjusted, film was as expensive as it is today and yet less accessible pre-1hr photos)

Most of us look up to fake winners who would be losers today, barely deserving of 15 minutes of social media fame if they could advertise a product. Like admiring the smartest monkey on pre-human earth.

So I got a bigger camera and soon the average photo in the monthly jpeg folder was 300% more likely to actually fucking mean something
And 300% less likely to be worth wasting on /p/
I also life more without an x100v weighing down my pocket or smacking me in the ribs, bugging me to put it between me and the world every time the sun sets and I’m near the corner of a brick wall or some pigeons act silly.

>>4503668
I would heavily recommend, at first, to just pick pictures you like and understand why you like them, i learned the hard way that's the better form of studying to improve your own preferences so you can replicate work that you actually like. Imagine studying stuff you don't really like that much or didn't care a lot.
Obviously you would need to know a little bit of technical stuff but i think that's obvious, if it is not obvious then re-learn the basics with a short book or a tutorial. How much DoF does it have? are the colors too muted or vibrant? heavy emphasis on shadows? etc.
Then look at where they captured such instances, was the guy in a national park? did he go to war? etc.

Now you will stumble upon some photographers in which their work will be constantly within your tastes, when that happens you will do the same as before, knowing why you like them, AND THEN you will read how they did it often, and there is where you will find lies or misconceptions.
Alex Webb is a favorite of mine and the guy is quite realistic about his work, he says that for every decent picture he likes he took a thousand or more shots, he doesn't spray but he needs many, many situations until he captures one that he thinks is good. Cartier-Bresson championed several things but the guy had practically infinite rolls due to his status, so he sprayed a lot rather than "wait for le moment" and also was known for posing scenarios which is against his supposed "candid" shots, he has great pictures but he captured them using behaviors quite against the ones he's famous for.
My point is that you will see that often, focus first on why you like the pictures rather than the guy behind. All Magnum OGs were staff photojournalists and they were rampant sprayers and propagandists rather than artists, only later they started searching for good examples like Ansel Adams or Ernst Haas.

Look into photogs when you do it for leisure, in terms of getting skill look at photos.

>>4503681
>Small cameras are antithetical to worthwhile photography
Reminds me that I fucking hate my Rollei 35 and need to sell it, absolutely hateful camera. I would rather EDC my Soviet bricks than that thing.

>>4503698
Why do you hate it? Picked one up for basically nothing recently and I'm working through my first roll.

>>4503681
Having a camera with you doesn't mean you have to use it. When see you something interesting, most of the time you should realize that the photo is not worth taking without even bringing the camera up to your eye.
If you're annoyed that you didn't take a single photo after going out with a camera, you're doing it wrong.

>>4503695
>simply ask about names of photographers
>wax poetic for huge paragraphs
>shit on Magnum
>only recommended photogs are Webb, Adams, Haas

The tism is strong with you, how new to photography are you?

>>4503681
Sounds more like you lack discipline for shooting and basic file organization
Where can we see some of your photos?

>>4503819
>simply ask about names of photographers
I know too many, i tried to give you a better plan rather than indulge in your namefagging behavior which won't make you progress
>huge paragraphs
Learn to read nigger, i have nothing else to say to your dumb ass

>>4503796
I'm retarded and keep fucking up loading it or rather, I did once and now I get paranoid every time I load it. Also I have the viewfinder model (I've stuck a cold shoe rangefinder to it) and it's just kinda slow and finnicky to operate, plus the shutter speed dial is stiff. I didn't pay much thank god but it's possibly my most frustrating camera to use. I actually took it out this weekend, just couldn't enjoy it, never felt confident that I knew I was getting what I was shooting.

It's mostly my skill issue but I think I just prefer SLRs and would rather carry the extra weight.

>>4503832
>I know too many
All you had to do was list some, you wanted to turn into something else lol
I know plenty too, and I bet I've been doing photography a lot longer than you have, I just wanted see who you would recommend