I've attended critiques of participant images done during outdoor workshops
by professional outdoor photogs.
For most of them it is really hard to offer honest critiques of attendees
images for fear of crushing the spirit of the attendee. The better pros will
give honest comment to an outstanding image and offer an area of improvement
to those images that are not so good.
I've always solicit critiques from the pros I've shot with, knowing the
quality of the images they have produced and that they are interested in
helping to improve the work of the attendees.
I'll take critiques from others but will balance it by the quality of work
that I've seen them produce.
Hell, they're only images.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Robb" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Giving and taking criticism
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
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