i totally get where your coming from. there's nothing worst than a highly edited portrait posted and then the photographer raves on how good the lighting equipment is. they cant really shoot an out of camera shot to save there life. and most keyboard photographers are the same. its why very few actually post any images to prove there critique worth on others images. but who really cares everyone enjoys a different level of enjoyment from the hobby.
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Sorry, but nothing special there, and one could easily make up any story they wish. Another meth head maybe...?
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Zero objection to your technique, or critique of your photographs?
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I doubt that is why many talented photographers do not publish their best work online.
It is very easy to steal online photos and for the thief to make them look like they actually own the photos. Unless the theft ends up in a court then the theft is very unlikely to have been discovered if the thief is smart.
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I'd agree with that and I'd take it a bit further. Discussion should be about the technique plus how the image is perceived. The technique is objective. What is perceived is subjective. Both are relevant. Any piece of art will be perceived differently by different people. The trick is to try to understand why it is perceived that way. Some of this gets down to things like leading lines and composition. Some comes down to the prior experience that every individual has triggered when they look at or hear something. Works that move us have usually pressed those triggers. Discussing them is absolutely valid. Sometimes the prior experience devalues a piece of art because we realize it is a copy of a previous concept. A person without that prior knowledge will have a different experience.
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I haven't read the replies, but I would love to be in a community photographs, techniques, discussed, critiques are exchanged and gear is articulated to this idea. DPR is a good source for gear and related issues, finding advice for problems of gears and they have already a huge amount of content already for this purpose. I think this site will be more successful if photography is in focus.
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OK. Go to the Home page of this site and check the Critiques section. Then try the Weekly C&C thread. Participants are invited to post an image and then receive critiques of that image from other participants. New players are welcomed. It's still developing but that's the kind of discussion you will find.
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The real issue is application of technique, which is far form being 'objective' and is very much a part of the whole creativity thing. The point about discussion in open forums is that it goes the way it goes, however one might have thought it should go in the first place. As you're probably aware, I'm personally strongly against trying to control the direction of discussion, partially from an idealogical point of view, but also because controlled discussions mostly cease to be interesting. What I'd hope is that if photographers are given full-fat facilities to share their images some interesting and rewarding discussions will result.
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Zero objection to me doing my photography as I want. How I do my own photography is no-one's business but mine, and the same applies to any photographer. Things get a bit different if I were to try to promote how I do my photography as the only way, or the correct way. Then I would people have every right to say that they disagree. Even if I were to just go out there and say 'this suits me' then I've opened the discussion and people have the right to disagree. That's a discussion.
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Two thumbs up!
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- By AlanSh on July 31, 2023, 10:32 p.m..
