Don't you hate how no one replies to your comment replies? It's like once they say their thing, they're done, and don't expect or know how to reply to an intelligent response.
On an unrelated note, I always feel a little awkward when I don't like one of the popular/celebrated deviantart photographers. But really, I think half or more of the trends on this site are utter crap, and in those popular genres the same lame, overwrought, ridiculous themes get trotted out by every hot photographer. But then I find someone who is guilty of this sort of melodrama, but is not just pretty good at it, but maybe the best. In his gallery every shot is perfectly lit and post processed nicely and have wonderful compositions and razer focus (but that's not actually hard at all considering they seem to all be shot at something ridiculous like f/14). And yet it's all hyper-real and utterly false, emotion for the sake of it and not for any real sense of it. No understanding, just shouting. And while it's novel for about 1 page and a half of gallery space, when the same shots and style get retread for 35 pages it gets old fast. Why would you shoot what is essentially the same exact photograph, interchange model, interchange mood: happy/sad/fearful/angry/violent/suicidal and insert splashy visual effect and/or fluids, the same shot, thousands upon thousands of times over.
I won't name any names, but I found 11 photos I really really liked out of 899 in the gallery. Those 11 you can find in my favorites. And if you find the source, I think the worst excesses are on pages 3&7, but there are plenty on every page.
Tell me what you think. Does it rub you the wrong way as much as me, or am I really the only one who thinks some (much) of it might be rubbish?