I'm with you Dave. The PUG has taught me how to be better. If you look at some of my original PUG contributions you will see how much worse I was. I'm just happy to have crawled up to mediocre! Average here is a whole lot better than Very Good in a lot of places. (Even the snapshots are a cut above.) Regards, Bob S.
On 12/16/06, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All thoughts comments a while back, about only submitting images of > the utmost quality to the PUG are a crock IMHO. Post the best you can > do, and await any constructive criticism. > > If I relied on the comments of friends and family, I would have > stopped trying to do better 10 years ago. > > As a mediocre photographer myself, post & submit images I say. It's > one of the better ways to help improve your work. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > On 12/16/06, Malcolm Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tom C wrote: > > > > > A good 50% of the photos displayed here are nothing more than > > > stinking street shots of homeless people or mere snapshots > > > with very little if any consideration given to composition. > > > > Sadly, not living in an area of great natural beauty like your good self, > > it's very easy to travel a very short distance and see such images which > > would easily become photos. What we have here is a photographic conflict of > > interest. You've also raised this in part in earlier posts this year in the > > quality of images submitted to the PUG. > > > > I've submitted very few images in the last twelve months directly as a > > result of the comments surrounding PUG and other submissions here. Most of > > the submissions are of a very high standard - well beyond competition for a > > mediocre photographer like myself - and the constant 'raising of the bar' > > makes it very difficult not to compete, but to find a place for those of a > > lower standard to discuss what's gone right and what's gone wrong with a > > particular shot - perhaps this no longer exists or is welcome here. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
