That rating system is going to make lots of friends fast! :-)
Tom C. >From: Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Comparing Photos >Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:13:20 -0800 (PST) > >Ditto! >To some extent it's like receiving the comment, "not up to your usual >standard". How high is my usual standard and compared to what? How high >is up? IOW, you've shown me some that I liked better.(?) >My feeling is that putting up images for review is done for that >individual image and what it does for each individual viewer, not how >it compares to one I may have offered previously. >Maybe we should set up a 0 - 10 rating system. ;-/ > >Jack > >--- Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I found the recent comments on the the three PESO's I posted quite > > interesting. I appreciate the feedback and naturally don't expect > > everyone's taste to be the same. I'm happy that they were generally > > well > > received. > > > > I did find it, looking for the right word - puzzling - that the > > three > > photos were often judged in comparison to one another. Because, > > aside from > > being landscapes that contained trees and an element of fog, they > > were quite > > different from one another in composition, lighting and especially > > feeling. > > Neccessarily so because I had what nature presented me, and > > deliberately so > > because I think/hope I saw the potential in each of the circumstances > > and > > decided to work on making the image, hopefully conveying the feeling > > that I > > had, to the viewer. > > > > To me, judging one against the other is like comparing a Caribbean > > beach > > scene, to a northen California Big Sur coastal shot, to an Alaskan > > glacial > > fjord. It's difficult to compare three such photos, because aside > > from > > being water-related, they will have a totally different feeling to > > them. > > > > Here's my unsolicited, humble, hopefully not subjectively blind, > > thoughts on > > my own photographs: > > > > Inversion - Strong dramatic lighting, monotone, high contrast. Fog, > > tree > > silohouettes and tree shadows provide the interest in the shot. Based > > on > > responses I would describe it as 'Exciting'. > > > > Common Ground - Low light levels, low contrast, gray scale. Trees of > > differing shapes almost lost in the fog, create a soft two > > dimensional, > > somewhat old feeling. 'Moody'. > > > > Hillcrest - Medium lighting, soft/cool pastel-like colors and tones. > > Foreground rolling grassy mounds, trees up close and more receding in > > to the > > distance and fog, providing some perspective. It feels a little > > ethereal to > > me and reminds me a bit of the grounds around Camelot as depicted in > > motion > > pictures. I find it to be 'Soothing'. > > > > ------------- > > > > So what am I blathering on and on about? Hmmm... :-) I guess what > > I'm > > saying is that, personal taste aside, each photo is very different > > from the > > other, and was designed as such to present a different feeling to the > > > > viewer. > > > > Side-by-side: > > > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=341034 > > > > Again thanks for commenting. > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >The fish are biting. >Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. >http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php > >-- >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
