One sort of mitigating factor about "The Book" is the stated 'soft' preference for something current. I imagine we've all submitted work that wouldn't even make the leader board if scored against the complete history of ones work. Encouraging recent work does give impetus the idea of getting out and shooting. A good thing.
--- On Thu, 5/13/10, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Chicago > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 11:53 AM > 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. > -- 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.
