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If you’re doing commercial photography in a professional manner, the answer to this question is clear: you have, to a certain degree, to follow the client’s vision.

But what if your photography is all about creativity or you don’t have a client to worry about?

I’ve had contact with photographers that could not care less about photography "rules" and would pursue their creative vision on every shot (independently if this would make them more or less attractive to others), and I’ve had contact with photographers that are thinking most about how their work is going to be perceived by others and try to make it attractive to as much people as possible, even if that means going away from the "inner" expression..

Both ways of photographing have advantages and disadvantages and the best would be if your vision is similar to the rest of the world’s.

So, my question to you is in which category do you see yourself. Are your photos mostly for yourself or are you thinking more about how others judge look at your work?

I know that you’ll probably would like for a third option - Both. But I’d like you to really be introspective and see in which of the two groups you fall the most.

In any case, this should give some interesting results…

Thanks for your participation, and if you have any comments on this, as always, please do so.

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