Thanks everyone, I feel better. I was told by a local photog group that my shots were amateur like. Also, "I was being pretentious by using film. Film is dead, your wasting your money". The assignment was to bring 3 to six photos for group critique. Very disheartening response from the group. I had to put my big boy pants on to keep from crying. I was very embarrassed. I felt bullied a little. These were two images out of six, they stopped after the reflection one. I stuck around for the others critique and of course, theirs were great. To me they were boring but I just kept my mouth shut. My 4th visit to the group, been a while. My late mentor was part of this group, he would have probably ripped them a new butt. Very clicky group, will not return. They didn't even tell me what I could have done better. When I asked, they said, shoot digital.
We have a local group that’s similar. I was a member of their Facebook group for a while and planned on attending a meeting, but their pretentiousness on Facebook turned me off.
A friend of mine who I shoot with regularaly attended one of their meetings as a guest judge for a photo contest and said they were ridiculous. Basically if you weren’t shooting full frame with pro glass your photos sucked and weren’t worth displaying.
They try to recruit me at least once a year because “all the local “pros” are members and you should be too.”
I’m all set.
I have my awesome TPF family, and so does JC
