>In a message dated 2/20/2004 7:42:20 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I often see photos that I wouldn't have taken, but I always feel that is because my vision is different from the person's who took it, and not that my way is better. I can see giving technical advice, but everytime someone posts a photo, there are a bunch of folks that jump in and say you should have made a different photo. That is a bunch of crap.
I disagree. All photographs can have criticism applied. How else is one to learn? And/or improve? Look at one own' photographs and think how one could have taken it differently. And have others do the same thing. Rarely, I think, is a photograph just "perfect" to the taker of that photograph. They are often wondering how it could have been better. Or how they'd do differently it next time. I think feedback when all one says is that one really, really likes a photograph is good. But I think feedback when one offers some mild criticism of how it might be better, is often what the photographer is REALLY looking for, so it often is more valuable. It doesn't mean people dislike it. If someone dislikes it, they may say, but, let's face it they usually won't. So mild criticism is usually offered for those things one LIKES. (As long as those offering suggestions/criticisms remember to say they like it. :-)) And I think suggestions on cropping are the least intrusive and the most doable. Because it doesn't mean do it differently next time, it means how could the actual photograph that already exists be made a little better. Cropping changes are easier to actually do, or not. The photographer who took the photograph can always ignore any and all cropping suggestions and/or suggestions about how to do it next time. Because, of course, their vision is their own. But I think everyone knows that. Marnie aka Doe ;-) And some of us tend toward perfectionism, aim toward perfectionism in photography, more than others.
