Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:46 AM 10/14/98 -0400, you wrote: >photos - the rection would have been infinitely more factful and polite, if >not necessarilly more positive. Yeah, that's probably right. He deserved hard criticism. But then, he ought to count himself lucky. We were honest, not polite. Politeness in photo critiques hardly helps photographers improve. It can, if not used in moderation, cause them to be complacent. Note Shutterbug Magazine. Lots of photos in that magazine (not ALL!) are terrible. Some technically so. Yet the goal for them isn't probably art. Or they wouldn't be writing a techie article to start with. No? This guy was an "artist." Letting himself open to a lot of "interpretation." - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch "What a waste it is to lose one's mind -- or not to have a mind. How true that is." - -Dan Quayle addressing the United Negro College Fund