How do you feel about your photography?
I enjoy doing photography, but I don't feel like an artistic person the slighest bit
I always liked looking at nice photographs, appreciated when a photographer showed something in an unusual way, things like that. When taking photos myself, I was just a point and shoot kinda guy, not paying any attention whatsoever to subject, composition, light, etc.
This changed about 2 years ago, when I started to follow a few landscape photographers on youtube, and started to try to take photographs (landscape) more intentionally, trying to use what I learned from watching the videos. I never did anything artistic or even creative before in my life really, I have always been a technical person.
When I hear photographers talk about their photographs, they often mention feelings and vision, and stuff like this, which is very strange for my technical mind. I never have any vision, or feel anything (well, apart from enjoying myself) when I'm taking photos, I feel like my main motivation is that I just want to take nice pictures that look pretty. Boy, that sounds dumb. :D I can't even give a creative title to my photos, I see a lot of folks do that very well, but I can never come up with anything apart from literally descripting the image, so I never do that.
Does anyone else feel like this? Is it perhaps just a natural thing for a beginner in photography, or do you think some people are like this by nature, while other people are more artistic, in the sense that they feel the need to create, they have a drive to express themselves through their art? Do you think you can create good photos without being the latter type?
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