----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Davis" Subject: Re: Comparing Photos
> 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. ;-/ If you put a picture up for comment, you kinda have to take what you get. Not up to your usual standard means just that. It's not as good as what you usually post. It doesn't matter how good what you usually post is. There are some people on this list who are building very impressive bodies of work. Bruce, Ralf and Godfrey come to mind. While it might be nice if each picture was stood on it's own, I think it can also be instructive and useful to look at a picture in the context of the photographer's other works to see how it measures up. This can tell us if the photographer is improving or not, if his work is getting stale or stagnant, if he is trying new techniques, or going after fresh subject material, or if he has found a comfortable old pair of shoes and is just shuffling along in them. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
