I love looking at all of the PUG monthly photos, but I do not feel qualified
to comment on the photos insofar as offering praise, criticism, or
suggestions for improvement. What I think would work, if it would be
possible, is if there were some sort of a rating system (number 1-5, 5 being
the
I don't know how comfortable I feel with that. I've never liked scoring art.
It's hard, for instance, to score composition, since no one seems to be able to
agree if there are even rules of composition, and even those who say there are
such rules admit that sometimes they have to be or can be
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I don't know how comfortable I feel with that. I've never liked scoring
art.
It's hard, for instance, to score composition, since no one seems to be
able to
agree if there are even rules
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From: Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: PUG comments-was:Re: Evaluating Photographs
The opposite could happen, though. While some people will gradually
change their style to accomodate the criticisms
Quite easily doable, technically. In fact it would be fairly straightforward
to automate the procedure, and use dynamic HTML scripting to add sliders and
a button you could click on to submit your ratings to a PUG database.
But it still might not be all that good an idea. If you rate my image
I too, miss PUG comments, but I'm in the same boat as you. My shots rarely get
mentioned, except for by those who take the time to comment on ~every~ shot (and
then the comments have always been good), and back when Brogden organized the
little critique circle a year or more ago - again, never a
OTOH, I could be completely wrong here! Wouldn't be the first time. vbg
cheers,
frank
Why no comments: people are busy, people are unassertive, people are afraid
to criticize, people only have time to look, writing comments involves more
time.
Any time I've been in a group where it is
Well, yeah,
That's the problem with doing it yourself, isn't it?
If you do only a few (your favourites), are you insulting those who you don't comment
upon?
If you comment on all of them, then you have to be honest with all of them, and let's
face it, the odd clunker does get in there, doesn't
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