Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can always be politely honest. I've tried to make it a personal policy to be polite on the Net despite being flamed a few times. One should never burn any bridges behind them. Bud "B. D. Colen" wrote: > Eric - I couldn't agree more that one doesn't do someone any favors by being > "polite," rather than honest, when asked to comment on any form of art. > However...There's honest and honest. Under normal circumstances I would > never call someone's work "Crap"-which I did in this case - even if I felt > it was. > > B. D. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Eric Welch > > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 11:56 AM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica-Users List Digest V3 #365 > > > > > > 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 > >