Paul Stenquist wrote: >OMG! All one paragraph. It's unreadable. >The part I managed to get through before my eyes and brain hurt seemed silly >and obvious.
There's a story Galen Rowell related in one of his books about the post-workshop slide presentations he always used to have. Each participant got to pick a number of their own shots from the workshop to be shown. Now a slide can go into a projector 8 different ways and 7 of them are wrong. And it's not always apparent to others which orientation is correct. So Galen instructed everyone to mark their slides with a dot in the upper right corner of the mount, viewed from the side from which the slide looked correct. This tremendously speeds up getting a couple of hundred slides into a carousel. In every workshop, however, some people just couldn't get it right. They either forgot the dot or put it in the wrong location. Rowell observed that these people also invariably produced the weakest photographs. He concluded that their lack of awareness/care/attention in marking the slide was not just confined to slide marking but affected their creative output as well. Doug Brewer and I see a similar effect at the GFM photo contest we judge: the people who mess up the (very simple) file-naming convention never produce winning photos. Anyway, I think the article in question shows that a similar phenomenon exists with regards to the written word. -- 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.
