There are no rules of behavior here, but in that we are a group of friends, we generally avoid critiques that are demeaning and mean-spirited. By the way I'm sure you meant to say "there are a couple of pretty colors in the background. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Paul Crovella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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.
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