Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Heh, it's so funny. I just left a list because I was looking for comments/critiques similar to the ones we dish out here, and all they cannot stop (and I mean they can't stop themselves) is to tweak channels and curves and give me advice on how to scan etc. when I am more interested in, "is there a picture there?" Technical aspect is the easiest to critique but the hardest to do over a web image. I think your situation (at least the part about we are not professional and have $dayjob with limited time) resonates with a majority of us. We do need to make the best out of the limited time we have. As I live in the boring suburbia, while I'd love to hone my skills at documentary style street photography, there is just not a whole lot of opportunity. Costume photography and taiko photography are almost a shoe-on for me, as I am involved with the communities. But B&W landscapes is the area that I really want to explore right now. As for neg vs. pos criticism, it's a tough thing. Each person has their preferences and interpretation. Some photos are just without peers, others really depend on whether you like coffee or tea type of thing. We newbie photographers have a tendency to wish to be validated (love me love my work please), so sometimes we all have a tendency to post photos just to elicit comments, even if we haven't taken a good image in the last week or whatever. I'm exceptionally lousy at making positive comments except "yup, it's a good one." Well, good luck. You have many good images, yup, good ones :-) On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Neil Beddoe <neilbeddoe at googlemail.com> wrote: > I bought an M9 recently and a few lenses, ?revived my dormant photography > habit and started posting to the LUG again. ?In that short time I think my > photography has improved and its all down to people being honest with me. > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963