"... especially kind people". Point taken and agreed. That's one of the problems I constantly battle against. I like kind people.
:-) 1. I don't want to think my images are good just because I pressed the shutter or because I may have a personal attachment to the subject. 2. On the other hand, just because a preponderance of people seeing the image say they like it, does not make it a good or successful image. Those people could be responding that way because they really like me, or they could be reacting that way because they like the subject matter. There's a fair chance that most people viewing the image couldn't really tell you why they like. 3. Or, I may have a good image that just doesn't strike a chord with most people. That's why I've ranted a little bit in the past on this. Not every image displayed is worthy of praise, yet it seems almost invariably the image is praised... maybe it's kindness, maybe as a mistaken way of encouraging the photographer to keep trying, I don't know. Could be I'm overanalyzing. :-) Tom C. >From: Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Pentax Gallery "Resignation" >Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:02:43 -0700 (PDT) > >..especially kind people. > >Jack >--- Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >From: "Kenneth Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I've got a fair number of images accepted into the Gallery & several > > into > > >the Premiere Gallery. > > >I've handed out my Pentax gallery address to a lot of people & the > > response > > >I get back from most of them is that are really impressed with the > > overall > > >manner in which the images are presented. > > > > It's not bad, but most people love my photos when I show to them. > > Yippee! > > :-) However, I'm pretty sure I could show them my rejects or images > > I don't > > like and they'd love them just as much. Most non-serious > > photographers are > > not looking at an image or a site with a critical eye. > > > > Overall I find people to be too easily impressed. > > > > > > > >I couldn't have done that kind of presentat > > > > ion without having my own web > > >site with its attending costs & maintenance. > > > > > >And yes, I'm getting more rejections now than early on. > > >I can also say that I see a lot of images up for voting now that I > > would > > >never think of submitting. The images I saw posted in the gallery > > in the > > >beginning are much better than what I see in the voting section now. > > > > > > > That's what I'd expect. > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > > and follow the directions. > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, >news, photos & more. >http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
