Hi,
I'd like to make a suggestion.
When the reviewers have been assigned their photos to review they should mail
'their' photographers privately and ask them what, if anything, they want
get out of the review. This should help the reviewers to pitch their comments
at the appropriate level. If the reviewer feels unable to comply - perhaps the
photographer wants unstinted praise and the photographer thinks the photos smell
bad - then, again privately, perhaps they should ask to be reassigned.
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Bob
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Thursday, May 03, 2001, 6:53:04 PM, you wrote:
> I agree 100% Gerald. How about we just assign photos of people who are a bit
> thick skinned to Shel and carry on. You can rip my stuff anytime Shel...<G>
> Norm
> "Gerald F. Cermak" wrote:
>> I've sat back and watched dirt fly after Shel posted his commentaries. I
>> think Shel did a good thing, calling the pictures as he saw them, and
>> offering constructive criticism. The subsequent attacks on Shel's character
>> were completely uncalled for. If the picture isn't inspiring to the
>> critiquer, what does it mean for them to offer a critique that doesn't state
>> that?
>>
>> Come on folks - it's the action not the person we are critiquing here, take
>> constructive criticism as a blessing. The first round of commentaries last
>> month seemed so overly nice, that it appeared people were swooning over some
>> particularly mundane photos. It got so bad, I ignored the latter comments,
>> and felt a little sick trying come up with "nice" only comments about my
>> assigned photographs - i.e. I really wanted to say some critical comments
>> about some of them, but felt I would be "out of line" with the previous nice
>> comments. I'm glad Shel had the guts to do his assignment the right way. I
>> don't think Shel got any particular joy out critique comments, and have
>> interacted with him long enough to know he was truly doing his assignment of
>> critiquing the best he knows - which is probably more than a lot of people
>> could say about themselves.
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