In a message dated 5/3/2001 7:15:34 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Despite your last comment about camera clubs, you could be a damned good
*photography club* judge!
Ed
> Actually - that is not harsh criticism, it is just plain boorish behavior.
> Ad hominim(sp?)?) comments are not necessary but unfortunately are often
> used by critics who are more interested in making a point them in providing
> feedback. The above message could have been conveyed via something like "if
> you look at the work of the following acknowledged masters . . . you will
> see that they typically . . . under these conditions. If you were to . . .
> then your image would have the following strengths . . . As it is, your
> image has the following weaknesses . . ." Much more informative, and
without
> casting meaningless aspersions of amateurism (excuse me, but since when is
> this a forum restricted to "PROFESSIONALS"?!? What union do you have to pay
> dues to in order be considered a "PROFESSIONAL?!?)
>
> By the way, I haven't followed this thread in great detail, but I gather it
> was started by some comments Shel made about John Mason's "Night Train?"
>
> 1. One part of the criticism I saw quoted was to the effect that it is
> harder to take pictures like this that show peoples faces. Implied judgment
> that harder is better. In this Shel is joining Tanya in a very strange
world
> view that equates quality of outcome to effort required. Remember Tanya's
> reaction to Mark's positive judgment of her one portrait? He said: "you
> could charge $500 for that one image . . .", she said "Oh, but I just took
> that, it didn't take any time at all!" So what Shel? So what Tanya? I will
> judge the image by what it does for me, thank you very much, not by what
you
> did or didn't do to put it in front of me. Did you crawl on your belly
> through the swamp, fighting off alligators and killer bugs to get that
> close-up of the heron on the last frame of your last roll of film with your
> P&S? Or did you step out of your air-conditioned car, put your $27,000
> 1500mm f/3.5 lens on your carpet-fiber tripod, and fire off 100 shots at
> 4fps with your Professional camera? Frankly, I don't care.
>
> 2. By the way, when I did my first scan of the PUG thumbnails last
night
> when I got home from my trip, the one that caught my eye first was Night
> Train. I like it. I like the reflected lights on the platform, I like the
> cocked head of the one looking down the track, the general mood. I would
> consider it a near miss; almost a keeper, but unfortunately the lamp post
> growing out of the one person's head looks just too painful. But hey, the
> fact that a person commits the mistake that every photographer has
committed
> numerous times is not a hinous sin.
>
> Lighten up guys. This is not a camera club. Thank God!
>
> Stan
>
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