I think it’s a little more nuanced than that. If I think a PESO is worthless, I say nothing. If I think it’s great, I’ll say so and if I can, add a word or two about why. If i think a picture is worthwhile and could be improved by cropping or color adjustments or whatever, I’ll say that too.
I don’t think I could bring myself to start verbally crapping on the pix I don’t like here. I suspect that most if not all of us are a little too emotionally engaged with the pictures we take for that to be comfortable. Hmm... I could set up an email gateway that would post PESOs under an alias like [email protected] with the understanding that we could be gleefully brutal about them without criticizing anyone by name. Mind you, there are a few competitors here whose styles are so distinctive that it wouldn’t help. -T On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:06 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/11/2011 2:18 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> One thing I haven't seen a lot of is discussion on how to give and take >> criticism. And a related discussion > > of what venues on the net, or off, are good for that sort of discussion. >> >> -- >> > That's because we don't offer criticism here. We had a regular member who > attempted it one time; he was promptly chased off the island. > It put a very real chill on the entire concept of giving an honest critique > of images that get shown here, since any honest critique will likely have > some criticism accompanying it (that being what the word critique kind of > come from.) > I tried to give a critique one time and was told to accept the photograph on > it's own merits, and either accept it for what it was or STFU. > And now you know why most every photograph that is shown here, whether it be > a stunning landscape or a tedious snapshot of a child playing with a kitten > gets, more or less, the same response (great capture, stunning image, etc) > or no comment at all. > > Most people don't want a critique, they want an ego massage, and no one > likes to be told that their image is an excruciatingly boring, poor > rendering of a banal and cliched subject. > > -- > > William Robb > > -- > 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.
