On 6/14/2012 6:37 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Walt Gilbert
On 6/14/2012 3:08 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Jun 14, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
Thanks for sharing this, George!
I'm watching it as I type this and finding it very helpful and
insightful.
I find videos like that very annoying as it makes me realize how
much I don't know about photography. If I were to watch too many,
I'd probably just give up on taking pictures altogether.
For what it's worth, he discusses aspects of images that would never
occur to me -- mostly due to the fact that I'm just about exclusively an
available-light shooter. And, in fact, his critiques have made me less
apt to ever start using anything more than a hot-shoe flash, if only
because it strikes me that to do so introduces more opportunities to get
the shot wrong.
Also, after seeing a few of the images he critiqued -- ostensibly taken
by photographers who are vastly more experienced than I am -- I don't
feel so bad about my work. I was actually taken aback by the
compositional flaws I saw in some of them.
Most of what you were seeing is what's currently trendy in wedding &
"seniors" photography. The compositionally flawed look is very *IN* at
the moment.
Well, that's one of the more depressing things I've read in quite a
while. And I read lots of depressing things.
McNally was critiquing them as if they were submitted for National
Geographic, when the target market is obviously facebook.
And to think those photos were probably taken with cameras costing
thousands of dollars. Yet another depressing thing.
It took me the longest while to figure out that "seniors" doesn't
really mean senior, it means high school students.
And to think those students' parents paid a small fortune for those
trendy, compositionally flawed photos. I'm not sure whether to be
encouraged or depressed by that.
-- Walt
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