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What’s a good place to see and share photography?
I miss photography subreddits. I don’t miss Reddit as a whole at all though, and I think smaller forums like Tildes and a couple Discord servers have helped bridge the gap in a lot of other areas. But I just have not found a good replacement for r/analog in seeing other hobbyists’ film photography and share my own. Where should I be looking?
I use Discuit for this. It's small, but the photography communities are rather active and not idling.
This looks neat, just made an account!
Probably not going to be the most popular answer here, but for seeing other people's work and getting inspiration, Instagram is still a pretty good place for photography. I follow more established photographers as well as folks with smaller followings, amateur photogs, etc. as well. I get a pretty good mix in my feed, and it ends up fitting more what I like than I got on r/analog. Now, posting on IG definitely can feel like screaming into the void, especially if you don't want to play the games to "grow a following" (I certainly don't). I don't have a great answer for you there. I'd love to get some photo sharing and critique/discussing going here on Tildes.
Instagram is still the place, unfortunately or not. With the focus on reels, if you want exposure from the algorithm, you'll have to make video content, which you can do as a stills photographer still, but the days of getting viral with merely a nice photo are over.
All the other platforms are dead or never alive. Glass, flickr, and all that.
I just can’t stand the way Instagram jumbles everything around on the feed, and I don’t think it’s great for giving and receiving questions and feedback. I definitely post stuff on there and follow some photographers I like but I’d like some other platforms for variety.
IG posts are not a good place for q&a/feedback, but IG stories are definitely a popular format for it. My girlfriend's art studio gets to see a lot of that through there, there's no better platform in terms of network, even if the format is not ideal.
If you're in to the whole fediverse idea, Pixelfed is pretty solid. Very similar to Instagram, but with way more photographers and less influencers.
The main instance at pixelfed.social has some great photographers on it.