Bruce Dayton wrote: >One thing I have found very interesting is to see what others think >of my pictures versus what I think of them. Many times some of the >things mentioned come into play as individuals like or dislike (less >like?) an image. One aspect that comes into play for me is how hard >I had to work to get the image - basically a difficulty factor. If I >didn't have to do anything (relatively speaking), then the image has >less meaning for me.
Very insightful, and something I hadn't thought of. This probably (partly) accounts for why some photographers are poor judges of their own work: They place too much importance on how difficult, or how gratifying, the photo was to get. A few times while putting The Book together I stopped and thought "WTF? This person has much better work than these three shots. What's going on?" You may have provided part of the answer. -- 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.
