On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:42 PM, John Celio <[email protected]> wrote: > A month or two ago someone posted a photo of a guy in a cafe. His near > arm was in focus while his face was not. Many people lauded the photo > as great, while I did not. > > Now it's my turn sharing a photo with a face out of focus and an arm in > and zero people seem interested in finding much good in it. > > I find this frustrating.
I don't recall the photo you refer to. I don't know what (if anything) I said about it. Hell, it might have even been my photo for all I know! ;-) But seriously, John, I can't speak for anyone else, but when I comment on a photo, I'm normally commenting on it on it's own merits, not in comparison to another photo, especially one that was posted a month or more ago. Actually, that's not entirely true. As you posted two photos at the same time, I probably (even if unconsciously) compared the two photos. The one of the young man with the glasses was far more interesting to me than #1, and I suppose that may have come out in my comment. That doesn't mean that #1 was a bad photo, or that there was "not much good in it". It's hard to know why people like or dislike certain photos. Last week I posted a few photos that I really liked that garnered very few comments, and even those were somewhat tepid. Maybe they were not good photos. Maybe it just has to do with who looked and what mood they were in. But surely it's not worth getting your shorts in a knot about this. I just went and revisited the comments. They're all pretty positive and seem to be split between which photo they prefer. I really don't see much of anyone trashing either photo. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
