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Anonymous10/12/25, 23:25No.4474356What creatives are actually like
Maybe nobody cares and maybe I'm dumb to be surprised but I just want to stress how unglamorous actual pro photographers - and creatives in general - are.
A lot of them are kind of losers. The image I had of photographers being cerebral, well-rounded and cultured guys has not proven to be true at all.
I work in healthcare but I run a small business doing sound engineering work. I do very specialized work recording live concerts and classical music, usually working alongside photographers/video crews. A lot of them are honestly just fucking weirdos, at some point I probably was too. It's a bit like pic-related (apologies for normie meme)
I mention this because prior to this I did much more paid photography gigs, but I got sick of it because a) the profit margins are a joke and b) I didn't fit in with the people there and they knew it. I'm not saying I'm better than them, but it was not the focused, intellectual crowd I hope for.
An anon here once saidA that he got into photo-journalism because it is a field that vagrants and ne'er-do-wells can get into and I 100% see it.
Older guys are good though, they're always helpful and polite.
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Anon10/12/25, 23:46No.4474359
intelligent people are weirdos. creative people are intelligent people, and weirdos.normality is stupidity. normality is more animal than spirit. normality is a brain unencumbered by all the details and patterns in the world so it just stumbles into a marriage, a career, and 2 kids without getting derailed or asking why.if you were put in a room with the top 100 artists and top 100 scientists in human history you would 1: not be able to tell which was which 2: get, as they say, "the ick"
that feeling they're basically not even the same species as you, you're on different frequencies, and they can't even speak your language.and they would feel the same thing. but maybe less viscerally, because 190/200 of those people would have a weird fetish or outlook a normal person would be conditioned to want to commit murder over.
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Anon10/12/25, 23:57No.4474361
You work in healthcare... But you have a career in music production?What are you, some data input drone?Well photography itself has a low entry barrier. All you need is to not think like a cheapskate and buy gear, an entry level used DSLR is enough for that requirement and that's kinda rare among the general populace.But photography doesn't require thinking, doesn't require calculating, doesn't require predicting. Just be there, and so photojournalism and street photography are done by, how to put it, nobodies.Now the shit that shows up in NatGeo, guys who shoot models etc, they have a mix of introspection and low inhibition. Can't say introversion outright because of the low inhibition factor. They ARE weirdos with low empathy who think visually and that's that.For example in the Photographer tv series from NatGeo, there was one jeet who took pictures of parasites, not because the parasite is relevant, interesting or anything, but because it hadn't been done and he found out he could. Then he opened up hatching chicken eggs and taped the exposed embryos without caring they'd get infected, and he filled them with mineral oil to solve an optics issue.In the same series there was an adrenaline junkie woman who thought of rigging led lights in a crack and shooting the silhouette at night. In her mind and speech the only things that mattered were climbing and the image.I'm not a photographer more than snapshitting animals as if they were pokemon, but in scenic places I think of where the moon could be a specific day at a specific hour to have it look cool. I never go through it because i care about safety and what my family would feel if I got stabbed or kidnapped. Career photographers don't.
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Anon10/13/25, 12:50No.4474497
I don't give a fuck really about anything
I just take my camera go out and shoot
I don't get money or recognition for it and I don't pretend to be anything other than some faggot with a camera.
I don't care about culture or technique or the history of photography, or any particular styles. I don't care.