> On Mar 13, 2020, at 1:45 AM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/3/20, Olga Iona Custer, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> I am new to the list, new to Pentax, new to digital photography, and new >> to photography. > > Welcome Olga. There re some wise voices on this list - mine is not one of > them. > > But that pic of Larry is really good - it's captured an atmosphere, it's > telling a story. The picture of Kate, not so much. > > Pictures tell stories. It's up to you to interpret that story and bring it to > the attention of others. Based on what you've shown so far, I'd say a 50% hit > rate is exceptionally good ;-)
The way I phrase it: Photos are like sentences, the best ones have both a subject and a verb. > > I'm lucky to hit 10% !! I’ve got something like 700k frames in my lightroom catalog, though many of them are bracketing, there are about fifty photos in the portfolio I use to show off photos. That’s about one percent of one percent, so it sounds like Cotty is a thousand times better than me at photography. > > Enjoy your photography. > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit > || (O) | <www.seeingeye.tv> > ---------- > _____________________________ > > > -- > 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. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- 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.
