---- William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: regards PESO 2009 - 052 ... > > > > The negative reaction to Shel's critiques erupted after he said a photo > > was so bad that the poster should be ashamed for presenting it here. Most > > here have no problem with negative criticism, and debating the points of a > > critique shouldn't be seen as a bad reaction to the same. > > The negative reaction to Shel's critique also put a permanent chill on > honest criticism of photos on this list. > Sometimes a photo really is so bad that one has to question the wisdom of > the person posting the image, or sometimes the quality of a picture is so > far below the potential of the photographer that a flaying is in order. > Unfortunately, by shooting the messenger, we have limited our critiques to > the banal, and this doesn't really help photographers get better at their > craft, if, in fact, improving themselves' as photographers is at the heart > of their interest when they post a picture.
I don't see that here so much as you. Certainly there are quite a few responses to stuff that run along the lines of "nice pic!" but these seem to be confined, in the main, to those posters who have created a niche or genre for themselves on the list. Maybe these folks should be subjected to more rigorous criticism.... There are quite a few examples of profound and extended criticism to be found here, mostly for those who express a desire for it in other than formulaic ways. To me, the balance is about right. -- 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.
