It's also the case that where other shots have "been done before" that this one in particular has been done before to death and this shot has no interest whatsoever to set it above the rest of the cliches.
At best there's a couple pretty colors in the background but that's nothing to save it from banality. Cheers, Paul frank theriault wrote: > On Dec 4, 2007 2:48 PM, Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> While I appreciate the reply, I'm curious about the comment - hasn't >> everything been done before? Sunsets, streams with blurred water, >> poor people in 3rd world countries, reeds in water, portraits, etc. >> >> Perhaps you are meaning that you don't care for it? I can appreciate >> that - just an odd comment that caught me a bit off guard. > > I could be wrong, and of course I can't answer for Peter, but I find > personally that if a work is of a genre or subject-matter that I don't > particularly appreciate, I find it hard to get excited about it, and > I'm more likely to think as Peter does: that it's "been done before". > > If a piece is of a subject or genre that one is interested or > knowledgable in, one may be better able to appreciate subtleties and > nuances that a casual observer might either miss, or not appreciate. > > So, yeah, to an "untrained" (for lack of a better term) eye, it may be > "just a mountain", but to a landscape or nature photographer, it may > be a masterpiece. > > I fear I'm not making much sense, but hopefully something of what I'm > trying to say is coming through... > > ;-) > > cheers, > frank > -- 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.
