Before you take these whipping post comments to seriously....

SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
edited January 12, 2007 in The Big Picture
The following link is a Mike Johnston look into how some of the world's greatest photographers might have been received on internet photo message boards. (read "dgrin" and various others)

http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/2006/06/great-photographers-on-internet.html

(this blog was found through here)

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  • Manfr3dManfr3d Registered Users Posts: 2,008 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2007
    Oh yea I love this link, it shows how many
    "boneheads" are out there trying to be the
    great critique or photographer. I'm not a
    good one but it makes me comfortable that
    at least I am aware of it mwink.gifthumb.gif
    “To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
    ― Edward Weston
  • SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2007
    I'm definately guilty of this crime.
    Just good to see some of the comments put into perspective.

    It really makes me take a longer look at all posted shots to see the value in them.
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2007
    Thanks for posting this, SYR!

    It's been posted here before, but can never be posted too often, IMO.
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  • SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2007
    DavidTO wrote:
    Thanks for posting this, SYR!

    It's been posted here before, but can never be posted too often, IMO.
    I wasn't sure how old this blog was. It definately made me laugh and helped me keep not such a critical eye to photography.
    It's amazimg to me how I can see some of these famous photogs shots that I would normally shred that I somehow find myself relating to now....
  • JeffroJeffro Registered Users Posts: 1,941 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2007
    SloYerRoll wrote:
    The following link is a Mike Johnston look into how some of the world's greatest photographers might have been received on internet photo message boards. (read "dgrin" and various others)

    You know, not everyone likes everything, not even if it was taken by a highly accomplished pro. Some of their stuff can still be crap :D . If I don't like it, and someone asks my opinion I'll gladly share. So if someone is posting and asking for c&c and doesn't like the feed back, they shouldn't have asked.mwink.gif Art is subjective after all.
    Always lurking, sometimes participating. :D
  • SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2007
    Jeffro wrote:
    mwink.gif Art is subjective after all.
    Very true. These photogs shaped the way we view present day photos though. So while it may be crap to you.; to me I find it as a way to open my perspective and find art in everything around me.
    Now if I could get that being in full manual and adjusting for white balance in the fleeting moment that "moments" happen down....:tough
  • Manfr3dManfr3d Registered Users Posts: 2,008 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2007
    SloYerRoll wrote:
    Very true. These photogs shaped the way we view present day photos though. So while it may be crap to you.; to me I find it as a way to open my perspective and find art in everything around me.
    Now if I could get that being in full manual and adjusting for white balance in the fleeting moment that "moments" happen down....:tough
    I think you're confuseing Art with "What you like". Thats what these guys
    on this blog did. They judge pictures by aspects of sharpness, focus, dof,
    and shooting position but none of them looked at the picture as a whole.

    You may not like an image but you can still see if the photograph
    is technical, visual and the story it tells sound and complete. And if
    it has enough of all that its probably Art.

    World literature books arn't named so because of their sell-rankings,
    they are because they are sound and complete in itself - in a technical
    as well as in a non-technical aspect.

    just my 2 cents ;)
    “To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
    ― Edward Weston
  • JeffroJeffro Registered Users Posts: 1,941 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2007
    SloYerRoll wrote:
    So while it may be crap to you...

    Don't get your unders in a bunch...eek7.gif...I didn't say it WAS crap to me, I said it could still be crap. Being famous doesn't make it good.
    Always lurking, sometimes participating. :D
  • SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2007
    I should change the title to "Before you take my comments to seriously"
    Wasn't trying to start a debate.
    Reading between the lines here guys. Just talking.
  • jsedlakjsedlak Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2007
    I see a lot of this going on all over the place unfortunately...

    Funny reading though!
    jsedlak.smugmug.com
  • claudermilkclaudermilk Registered Users Posts: 2,756 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2007
    jsedlak wrote:
    I see a lot of this going on all over the place unfortunately...

    Funny reading though!

    That's why the blog post exists. It's been around for a while, but is still amusing & is still a very good point to think on. Remember that the "under-exposed, un-sharp" Steichen shot sold for over $3 million last year!
    Chris
    http://www.chrislaudermilkphoto.com/
  • urbanariesurbanaries Registered Users Posts: 2,690 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2007
    many images in the linked blog were significant to our culture because of the way they captured the emotion of a generation, an era, a wrinkle in time. The emotional aspect of photography is what allows it to be considered an art form. Otherwise it would ALWAYS be squarely in the physics category.
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  • SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2007
    urbanaries wrote:
    many images in the linked blog were significant to our culture because of the way they captured the emotion of a generation, an era, a wrinkle in time. The emotional aspect of photography is what allows it to be considered an art form. Otherwise it would ALWAYS be squarely in the physics category.
    Well said.
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