> Depends a lot on your purpose. True. I believe we were talking about pro photogs not camera club members.
>A commercial photographer can over edit and lose sales because someone may >have liked those photos. True, but I would then contend that he hasn't got a good enough feel for his potential clients needs. Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Looking at Pictures > 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
