Depends a lot on your purpose. A commercial photographer can over edit and lose sales because someone may have liked those photos. A fine art photographer needs to be more selective. A camera club member needs to make sure his photos look like everyone else's in the club. This list is more like a camera club than not, but is a bit more open minded.
-graywolf Tom C wrote: >>> They've learned to largely relegate their emotions, prejudices, and >>> personal attachments to the back >seat when deciding which images are >>> worthy of display and may enjoy potential success. >> I call that critical editing, IMO one of the best ways to improve my >> photography. >> >> Kenneth Waller >> > > That's my feelings. One never becomes perfect at this but I find it coming > full circle now. I can look throught the viewfinder and think, "No that's > not it", or "Yes, maybe this it". > > To tell the truth, for almost any image I see displayed on this or any other > list that is widely panned, it's the fact that it did not receive critical > editting by the photographer, or if an attempt was made, it still slipped > through. > > In short it's very often the ability to say, "I took this picture and it > sucks", instead of "This picture is good because I took it". > > Tom C. > > Tom C. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
