Hey bunny ears, who's opinion you calling a pile of hooey!!! Bob S. :-) On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:27 AM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:59 AM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > I agree. > > For myself, if I say "nice pic" (and I know I'll often reply to PESOs > in two or three word sentences) it might be because I don't have a lot > of time to formulate much more, and sometimes I just don't know what > more I ~can~ say. A photo may not move me a great deal, but I'd like > the poster to know that I looked at it and that the photo has some > worth to it. If something moves me, or if a small change would > improve it substantially, I'll try to say that. > > But as for Shel's post from (what was it?) five years ago putting a > permanent chill on "honest and open critiques", well, that's a pile of > hooey. It put a chill on personal attacks on the photographer that > have nothing to do with the photograph in question. > > And that's a good thing. > > 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. >
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