Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/30/02 5:01 PM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@shaw.ca wrote: > I see the PAW topic as a great learning opportunity for all, but somehow, > and I know Brian will have a solution for the traffic shortly. Until that > happens, unless one has without question absolutely "how to information" > good, bad or ugly. It should be given with a reason beyond... "gee I like > this!" Please! > > Look nothing wrong with that, but if that's your comment then post it > private, isn't that a reasonable thing to do? However, if you have some > absolutely essential information then please try and keep it short and if > someone ahead of you has already said exactly what you're about to > post............ don't post the same thing. Isn't that a reasonable request? I agree with much of what Ted says here. Regarding the "PAW topic as a great learning opportunity" as Ted calls it, I'll repost this link to my "What I Learned" page: http://homepage.mac.com/~gilplant/picaweek/pspages/post_script.html As one who has done the PAW for a complete year, I strongly support those who are making the effort. However I see that some people systematically reply to each and every photo posted, as if it were a requirement for participation. When I think back about my own project and recall the weeks that drew no response whatsoever, I remember thinking "Well, that shot must not have been all that bad, nobody hammered me!" But that more than anything else got me to go back out again and try to get the shot that would really "Wow" them! There was one person who began to comment on each and every picture. I grew to totally ignore his posts. And that's what I'm doing with most of the critique being posted lately. Gilbert - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html