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I should have some balance at least, to be in a forum with all your photos critiqued which shows nothing good you did also not always what we want, and really i should do less mistakes with few photos if i took critiques seriously, what will be the point if i shoot million shots with some [more or less] critiques if those critiques didn't help then to improve?!!!That depends on your goal. If you just want praise, post on the other forums. If you want constructive criticism, post here and other forums where they give fair critique.
My goal in being here is to learn about equipment and technique, and to develop my art. If I don't get praise, then so be it. If I can earn some, I know it is real here. On some forums I get lots of praise even for photos I see flaws in. That doesn't help me (well, it helps my ego ).
Also i agree that if someone really want to improve then he has to show his work to experienced people who can show him the weak points and also pointing the strong points in his work so he can do better and better, but really sometimes when those experienced critique a lot and they have some work that need critiques as well but they try to cover their some weak points with some reasons that may not work then we can feel that are our work really bad to them or are they just want to show they are close to perfect so they critique us to keep us lower than them?
Now the question is, in any forum, how can i find or know who should be the trusted critique guy to listen and follow his C&C? i don't know who are the best experienced trusted here, so i am not sure who i will take his C&C until i see his work and know about him.