Are we too self-impressed? A philosophical question.

[helen.HH]

Hi Kuuan
Thanks for responding...😉
I deleted my post feeling I just sounded like a 'self impressed' fool complaining about my photos 😱
I used the OP's term but I prefer to think of It more as 'Self Absorbed' ... I think the Techno/Social Media has pushed us over the Edge with that malady

I do agree that perhaps the majority of the viewing World prefer more 'pop' and for some the HD look ( which I abhor)

 

[Sparrow]

Hi Kuuan
Thanks for responding...😉
I deleted my post feeling I just sounded like a 'self impressed' fool complaining about my photos 😱

I do agree that perhaps the majority of the viewing World prefer more 'pop' and for some the HD look ( which I abhor)

... I wouldn't put too much stock by flicker, scrolling past a thumbnail seems to count as a view ... and the statistics are all over the place since they made the changes

 

[JChrome]

No comment on landscapes vs. nudes question, but seems that everyone want to take a stand nowadays, not sit in the audience. Yesteryears, there were still people willing to be the audience, their entire lives. But now we have million little stands with a performer/artist/actor on it 🙂

I wouldn't couch it in negative language necessarily. There's something to be said for those who strike a balance between being a producer and a consumer. Photography is producing art. So now we have a million producers because the barriers to entry are so low. I think getting on a stand and being a producer can be healthy (maybe unhealthy if too much). But most often, I see the opposite. Too much consumption/being in the audience.

 

[shadowfox]

We are all born with one perspective: Self.
As we grow, with the influence from parents (biological or otherwise), community, and those we can relate to (we usually call them "friends"), we may or may not gain additional perspectives.

Without gaining more than one perspectives, we cannot choose to behave differently than what the Self perspective tells us to do. This can end up becoming self-obsession, or self-criticism, or even self-loathing. Just like what those words says, they are still governed by this 'self' perspective.

Religions and non-religious philosophies offer this different perspectives. It is up to us to discern which one has more ground and actually maps (or explain) how, we became to be and where we are going. Both personally and as the human race.

Back to photography, I love film, like Margus, Helen, and so many others in this forum 😀

 

[DominikDUK]

One of our first thoughts is tits (= food) and face (Identification of mother etc.. and emotions) this should explain our pre-occupation with nudes and portraits. We apparently never fully grow up 🙂
Landscapes, Cityscapes are irrelevant until we learn to walk before that we only think about food, warmth, sleep and Sh*t Landscapes and cityscapes are simple not us important as our primal needs. As soon as we grow older other things that are related to procreation become more important than the world that surrounds us.

Nudes and Portraits stimulate our extremely powerful primitive side.

That's also one of the reason I prefer film there is some flesh involved 🙂