Now I am not the guy that do photography to get likes/faves and comments, I shoot the way I like to and when I want to, so I want to get that out of the way to begin with.
Pretty much since late 2014 and up until now almost every image I have posted gets less and less views and faves, even though I know the quality of my work has gotten better and I have been focusing more on shooting interesting shots that has a meaning.
This is just pure facts and statistics, when I started out here on dA it was pretty much unheard of seeing something with 150 faves and 500 views among the most popular at 24 hours.
Adding in the fact that from the time I am comparing I had around 3000 watchers and now it is more than doubled, so the logic would indicated that with more watcher and better work it should get a bit easier, but the opposite is infact true.
I am by no means saying I feel entitled to more views and faves, cause that is certainly not why I am photographing, I take pictures cause I love it, love being out in nature, seeing the changing lights and feeling the elements but is there perhaps something going on with from the side that work in other artforms ?
DeviantArt is pretty the only places where I have heard that painting, drawing, sculpting and so on is true art while photography is not, like say for instance a painter uses 120 hours on a painting, should that count as more valuable than spending months preparing for a photography trip, walking for miles to get to a location, wainting hours for the right light and a week editing and finetuning a photograph ?
I had quite long talk with m-eralp about this which undoubtedly is a great photographer and he shared my views on this, he noticed the exact same trend as I did, better work, more watchers, less views and faves.
If I had been extremely lazy and not tried at all to improve my photography, sure I´d be fine with it, but perhaps it is more about accepting the inevitable, that there isn´t any room for photographers anymore on DeviantArt.
What do you think ?
