Yes Tanya - I wasn't very clear in my comments, but in a back-handed way it
was complimentary. I agree with Mark's comments (which I alluded to) about
the marvelous shot you had on your page recently. Your self-deprecating
remark at the time about how little time/effort was involved made me want to
thump you on the head (figuratively speaking). If you are so blessed as to
be able to produce such a wonderful image, why denigrate it? No work
involved you say? Just luck you say? Nonsense.
I will grant that sometimes people get lucky. But people who seem to be
consistently lucky probably have something else going for them, like talent.
It wasn't luck that had you recognize the moment, that caused you to compose
and frame the shot the way you did, that led you to pick that frame from
among the 35 others on the roll, . . .
You and Shel both seem to belong to the old Puritan School of Photography
and Life: "if you don't work hard for what you get, then what you get is
nothing but a gift from the devil! You must work!" {Corollary: if you use an
auto-focus lens, a built-in light meter, a motor drive, and/or color film
processed by someone else then you haven't worked hard enough to "deserve" a
good image.}
Stan
> Stan wrote:
>
> "1. One part of the criticism I saw quoted was to the effect that it is
> harder to take pictures like this that show peoples faces. Implied judgment
> that harder is better. In this Shel is joining Tanya in a very strange world
> view that equates quality of outcome to effort required. Remember Tanya's
> reaction to Mark's positive judgment of her one portrait? He said: "you
> could charge $500 for that one image . . .", she said "Oh, but I just took
> that, it didn't take any time at all!" So what Shel? So what Tanya? I will
> judge the image by what it does for me, thank you very much, not by what you
> did or didn't do to put it in front of me. "
>
> Urrrm, thanks, Stan, I think?!? I guess I'll take that as a compliment (and
> a wake up call) hehe....8-)
>
> Tanya.
>
>
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