Tom - not sure how many smiley's are in your mind at this point -- but in my experience in all artistic endevours over 50 years, "competent" is pretty much a "damned with faint praise" kind of thing. In the journeyman world, it is less so.
ann Tom C wrote: > Insult away, most people here can see through that. > > There are degrees of competency, of which I'm sure your aware. > > Everybody and their brother that dabbles with a PC is a computer > expert. How competent does one need to be to take a photograph? > > Assuming the prerequisites of a camera, a recording medium, and a > power supply if it's an electronic device, one must: > > 1. Know to look through the viewfinder (unless they are shooting from > the hip) > 2. Know where the shutter release is and understand the neccesity of > depressing it. > > I won't mention where focus is at, whether it's desired, or if montion > blur is acceptable. > > Voila, we have a photographer. > > Tom C. > >> From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> Subject: Re: Cut or Keep? A Question About Editing >> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:06:35 -0400 >> >> Geeze, you don't know what the word means? OK, here's the >> definition, next time >> look it up yourself. >> >> competent >> >> competent (kòm´pî-tent) adjective >> 1. Properly or sufficiently qualified; capable: a competent typist. >> 2. Adequate for the purpose: a competent performance. >> 3. Law. Legally qualified or fit to perform an act. >> >> [Middle English, adequate, from Old French, from Latin competêns, >> competent-, >> present participle of competere, to be suitable. See compete.] >> - com´petently adverb >> >> The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition >> copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version >> licensed from >> INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution restricted in >> accordance >> with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved. >> >> >> Tom C wrote: >> >> > >> > 1. Graywolf, define competent. Competent <> This particular image >> is a work >> > of art. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
