In this general vein, and without venturing too far into the emotional minefield, a couple thoughts. When voting on PPG offerings, for example, there are many efforts that are so close to a "yes", but for some obvious easily corrected flaw. It's frustrating not to be able to mention it to the photog. These are worthy images from which the shooter should benefit, but are shot down without their owner ever knowing why. Kinda' sad. IOW, I won't suggest a specific change unless I feel the changes would result in substantial image improvement..by my "artistic" standards. ;)) General positive comments regarding basic rule compliance and those acknowledging obvious emotional attachments, notwithstanding.
Jack --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: regards PESO 2009 - 052 ... > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 10:38 AM > This is a very interesting subject. I suspect many of us > have > different feelings about it. I'll lay out some of my > thoughts. > > I am not a big fan of 'me too' type of responses - > it does give a > warm fuzzy for the photographer but not much beyond that. > However, a > critique or at least some thought out drivel takes time. > So if the > volume of photos is high, that can be difficult. This is > one reason > I struggle with saying much of anything about a GESO, there > are too > many pics to spend time writing about. So, time becomes > one element > that is impacting. > > Another issue is the level of the photographer. We, on the > list, are > at different levels of photography along with different > genres, alone > with different goals and aspirations. So with this in > mind, the > critique should take into account who the photographer is > and provide > meaningful input for them. That means that the critiquer > needs to > know the critiquee and be somewhat familiar with their > work. That > becomes another element of impact. > > Enough blathering from me for the moment... > > -- > Bruce > > > Monday, April 13, 2009, 6:48:49 PM, you wrote: > > DB> Ken Waller wrote: > >> Well stated. > >> > >> I'd be very interested to hear your comments > about critiques made on > >> this forum - off line if you prefer. > > DB> I'd be interested in this discussion. > > DB> -- > DB> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > DB> [email protected] > DB> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > DB> 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. -- 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.
