Tim Bray wrote: >I apologize for ranting, but you touched a hot button. If you talk to >any really successful artist, any medium, or even a >moderately-successful online writer like myself, you'll hear the same >story: Trying to guess and aim at what's popular is a loser's game. >My personal experience: I publish finely-crafted essays on Subjects >That Matter and they sink like a stone; later that week I whip off a >squib in 45 minutes while watching TV and it becomes an Internet Meme. > >Bah.
Bravo! Couldn't agree more. But what I think the original commenter might have been trying to say was that he was trying to work out a balance between what *he* likes and what *other people* like. If there's any doubt, I recommend going with photos that others like rather than your own personal favorites: Many photographers are better judges of other people's photos than they are of their own work. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
