Hurn & Jay have a lot to say about this question in On Being A Photographer. Well worth reading. To summarise, subject matter is everything.
B > > Thanks to everybody. > It is an interesting question - to what extent does subject matter? > Not in the context of this photo, but in general. > > --S > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2011, at 2:51, Bob W wrote: > > > >>> > >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/5382974835/ > >>> > >>> Tell me what you think even if you do not like it. > >> > >> as a photograph that shows off the capabilities of the lens it's > excellent. > >> Light, colour, bokeh etc are beautiful. As a formal composition it's > quite > >> nice. But the subject matter - a middle-aged man, his anorak, and > his bald > >> patch? Call me unadventurous, but no, not really. > >> > > > > Ditto from me. Nice colors, sharpness, bokeh, etc. But subject= (as > the kids these days say) "meh" > > > > -Charles > > > > -- > > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > > Minneapolis, MN > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
