Actually you do seem to waste a good deal of time and energy on that "shit." Nick seems to be enjoying himself and his photography, which I think is very important. Can't imagine why you have this attitude. And while you are at it, please post some of your pictures. I'm curious.
Why don't you tell me where? You seem to be an expert.
Explaining my dislike over a few posts hardly qualifies?
He's just this quite typical douchebagish, slick, charlatan, stealth blowhard, where if you have to
explain the negative traits to people, it's probably because they are smitten and blind to them already in some way, and wouldn't be able to see them, from just having it explained to them in mere words (often interpreting an attempt as just randomly placed envy).
Of course he's doing nothing particularly nefarious or "wrong".
He's just humblebragging and outright bragging, while disguising it as "education" and information in his drawn-out masturbatory videos.
I'm talking not just the spoken content, but the material values, locations and gear he chooses to, casually but prominently display.
He constructs this facade of a nice, down to earth guy, "who also makes mistakes" while those "mistakes" too are carefully curated theatre.
All the while with a bit of experience you can easily see through the cracks, errors of omission and plain lies in his carefully constructed varnish.
I've just seen so many of them in real life and on YouTube I've stopped even trying to outright ignore them.
Constructing a personae and facade of a humble guy who also just happens to be casually "AWESOME" in all these ways, is
very, very hard work, and tells a great deal about his priorities in life and his general character.
As I said in the other thread, all that would be of little importance, if he was a great photographer (who cares if they are primadonnas, as long as they can sing?).
But he is at best mediocre, by any standard and highly derivative (don't start with the old variation of the ad hominem attack "you do better". Ability and right to critique of course needn't have much to do with the subjects own abilities in the field. I'd say that I am a better photographer than him though, and so is most people in here).
Whatever business he might
really have, he sells purely on the face of his spiel alluded to above.
Now, anyone knows that a successful photographer during the last hundred years or so has
had to have
some combination of personal storytelling and charisma to make it anywhere, but if that is not combined with at least a good helping of talent, originality (whatever that is) and personality in their expression, it's impossible to take them seriously as someone to learn from, or even listen to.
