Exactly what I suspect to be generally true and consider sound advice! Jack
--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PDML Photo Annual - first month summary > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 4:13 AM > 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. > -- 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.
