Be better than you are

Do me a favor, do the human race a favor, and don't coast through life.  Enough of this good enough shit, don't just settle for mediocrity.  I've never been that way, and I can't understand those who are.  More, I can't understand those who encourage that kind of behavior.  Look, if someone is bad at something, just tell them.  They need to be told because they don't have the ability to self assess.

Look, if you're a photographer, and you put out your work and you think it's good, or good enough, or acceptable, and you have no reservations about it whatsoever, then you should find another profession or hobby.  You should, at the very least, step out of the profession and just shoot selfies or your stupid vacation no one cares about.  Seriously, the people you're shooting for as a so-called 'photographer' are the ones losing out.  Because your shots suck, they do, they absolutely fucking blow and there's nothing good about them.  They are marginally better than a cell phone shot but the color is wrong, the exposure is off, whites are blown out, the fucking thing is crooked, you're too far away, too close, wrong lens so they're all distorted.  Please stop.

I have no problem getting work.  But I bet you there's some good photogs out there that do have more trouble getting work and you're fucking it all up for them.  Your clients deserve better photographs and those photogs deserve clients.  You're probably fucking with photography pricing in your area too, by offering it for free.  Just stop.

Keep in mind, some of your clients don't know what a good shot is, and they are easily fooled.  They actually assume that those shots you see in magazines are not possible for mere mortals like them.  But that's just not true.  A real photographer, probably a dozen or so of them in your area, can do that for them if you weren't spreading your shit show all over social media.

And the rest of us, the real professionals who see through your charade, we can see your work, and we think it sucks, we know you're faking it.  We'd tell you, but it's poor form, and would reflect badly on us.  Instead, I urge you to go fucking learn what you are pretending to be good at.  Get good and stop watering down photography.  You make us all look bad.  Idiots.