Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/30

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] Is it now a ? for Ted
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:49:54 -0500
References: <MABBJJLPMBEAOLKHGGIAKECJDEAA.jsmith45@bellsouth.net> <3C582151.3030705@shaw.ca> <001301c1a9ba$f36861c0$5e2d7ad5@desktop> <000701c1a9c1$873711c0$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net>

For many of us the PAW is as much about getting better as any thing else.
Yes, dreck gets posted, but for many starting the road away from happy snaps
entails many, many stupid human tricks.

Many of the comments making suggestions are for making a poor shot better.
It may still be a poor shot but it a start to seeing with a camera.  When a
beginning student shows you their first shots it isn't very helpful to
wretch in the trash and say go away.  You start with what you have and hope
that the beginner listens and tries to see why what inspired them doesn't
transfer to the film.

It is also true that some people have any eye that a little guidance causes
inspiration.  Rei and Nathan are two present examples of such people.  But
for the many more, it is a much longer road away from the dreck and into
fair and hopefully beyond.

So, the question would be, can you instigate further refinements to
criticism so that those who listen produce passable fare instead of dreck?

Thank you now for your comments previously he says lavishing praise to
entice the victim into more work.

Don Dory
dorysrus@mindspring.com

- --
To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html

Replies: Reply from Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> (Re: [Leica] Is it now a ? for Ted)
In reply to: Message from "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net> (RE: [Leica] Is it me or ....)
Message from "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> (Re: [Leica] Is it me or ....)
Message from "geebeespaw" <geebeespaw@btopenworld.com> (Re: [Leica] Is it me or ....)
Message from Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> (Re: [Leica] Is it me or ....)