Do people with really expensive cameras actually care less about posting their photos?
I was recently around a family friend who has what must be $20k+ worth of Leica gear and I assumed his Instagram would be insane but he barely posts. He takes his camera everywhere, shoots constantly, prints a lot of his photos and has albums going back years but most of the pictures never leave his house. Family gets some, close friends get some and apparently he has a little Kibu group where he sends photos from trips to a handful of people.
I asked him why he spends that much on cameras if almost nobody sees the photos and he looked at me like it was the dumbest question ever lol. He basically said the whole point is that he wants the pictures not an audience. That stuck with me because I think I’ve gotten so used to photography being tied to posting that I almost subconsciously treat taking a photo and sharing a photo as the same thing.
For people who have been into photography for a long time did you eventually start caring less about showing your work to everyone and more about just keeping it for yourself?