Granted, everyone has their own taste and I can't, nor do I want to, change that. However, I and several others tend to find the list is often too self-congratulatory.
Almost every single photo shown here meets with praise. That tends to diminish the value of truly well-deserved praise, and to some degree it does the photographer a disservice. Some photos are failures (yes there is alway subjectivity), and to tell the photographer otherwise sends the wrong signals. We don't need to do it in a discourteous manner, but we often learn as much or more from failures as we do from successes. D or C-grade work should not be given an A-grade, otherwise what incentive will there be for improvement? When the mechanism that could enable someone to improve is out of order, what then? Tom C. >From: Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >Subject: Re: Re: >Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 10:23:28 -0700 (PDT) > >The was, in some unique way, especially meaningful to one viewer. That >doesn't, necessarily, validate it to anyone else. >I think that's what every photographer and viewer has to realize. > >Jack > >--- Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What? Is Godfrey in a 3rd grade photography? :-) Sorry to appear > > rude. > > > > What is good about this picture? I don't find anything appealing > > about it. > > I don't see that it took any more effort than haphazardly raising the > > camera > > to one's eye and pressing the shutter release, maybe not even looking > > > > through the viewfinder. > > > > Not only is the main subject not in clear focus, the secondary > > subject is > > not either, and both are cut off. I'm not a believer that some sort > > of > > unspoken social commentary, makes a photograph a good photograph. > > > > If this is the kind of image that constitutes an incredible > > photograph, then > > by God, every person that ever picked up a camera and pressed the > > shutter > > release a half dozen times is a good photographer, and we should all > > stop > > trying. > > > > Tom C. > > > > >On 08/05/07, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I missed this as well. Beautifully captured. Very moving. > > >>Paul > > >>On May 7, 2007, at 5:50 PM, frank theriault wrote: > > >> > > >> > On 5/5/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >>>> http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/22.htm > > >> > > > >> > I missed this first time 'round. > > >> > > > >> > In incredible photograph. > > >> > > > >> > Just incredible... > > >> > > > >> > cheers, > > >> > frank > > >> > > > >> > -- > > >> > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > >> > > > >> > -- > > >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > >> > PDML@pdml.net > > >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Never miss an email again! >Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. >http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
