Re: Uncomfortable Truth About Photography

2015-04-23 Thread Bruce Walker
This came to mind ... "You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything." ~ Psycho Killer; Talking Heads On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Well, at least the "uncomfortable" part was true. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.ne

Re: Uncomfortable Truth About Photography

2015-04-23 Thread Mark Roberts
Well, at least the "uncomfortable" part was true. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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 th

Re: Uncomfortable Truth About Photography

2015-04-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I didn't quite get that far before realizing that it was stupid to waste any further time reading the piece, although I did read through it for the exercise of being able to critique. I don't find any of the author's "truths" uncomfortable or even related to what I do with my photography. It's

RE: Uncomfortable Truth About Photography

2015-04-23 Thread Malcolm Smith
Bipin Gupta wrote: Bipin, I think I might be one of the ones who doesn't share these views. > > 1. It is more about equipment than we'd like to admit and smart kids. No. It really isn't. The last couple of years have shown me that. I've been playing with a K7 again in the last couple of days an

Re: Uncomfortable Truth About Photography

2015-04-23 Thread P.J. Alling
I got to point 2. about half way through I realized he didn't know what the hell he was talking about. Changing contrast is an old technique, too high a contrast range wouldn't reproduce well in newspapers. Cropping and manipulating images has always happened, often on the editorial level and

Re: Uncomfortable Truth About Photography

2015-04-23 Thread Brian Walters
I stopped reading at the first 'fucking'. Well, that's not right. I made it as far as the second one. I'm not adverse to using the F word but if this guy can't get the message across by reasoned argument then I can't be bothered reading it. Cheers Brian +

Re: Uncomfortable Truth About Photography

2015-04-22 Thread Larry Colen
He has some good points, but he comes off as a dick with a stick up his ass that's so big and thorny one wonders how he sits down. Bipin Gupta wrote: This great little piece landed in my Inbox today from my school mate in Canada. This could be a tribute to all us great or not so great Photograp