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What is subjective is whether or not people willl actually tell you what they really think about your new haircut when you ask them.

And this place is full of people who are loath to say any photo is bad becuse they expect reciprocal accolades when they post their own garbage.

Photography, painting and drawing all have well developed rules for composition, scene selection, point of view which have been developed over hundreds of years. You deviate from these things at your own risk.

All these rules have been "field tested" in juried competions, and in the world of commercial art sales and that is why we have them today.

I wager that you can not honestly say that you had any of those things in mind when you took this shot.

It is just a random snapshot that you thought "looked interesting" yet without mindful application of compositional rules, thematic selection, etc. it just will never rise above being a "random snapshot".

Seeing something that interests you is the beging of the compositional process, not the end.

If it doesn't make it there, the author has failed.

But, jurried competitions, commercial art sales, etc. show that viewers have a suprisingly commmon set of likes and dislikes.

We call those things compostional and thematic rules.

Why be satisfied with "sucking" at photography?

With a minor investment in time and effort, you can at least be "competent" at it, maybe even "good".

Do you really think people take up painting and just say "well, I will take this brush here and some of these paints and put it on the canvas and see what comes out"?

Does anybody interested in being a painter really think that is an approach that is likely to be successful?

(unless of course you are just naturally talented but that is rare).

Why would photography be any different?

Tedolph