Hi Greg, I'm not offended by criticism of anything i put up on the gallery, provided it is constructive. I understand that many of us do not have the time or inclination to review the images (certainly not all of them). Personally, I don't particularly care for photojournalistic/street images, so I wouldn't try reviewing them unless a particular image made particular sense to me. I've had the opportunity these past few months to have about 20 of my pictures viewed by about 15 'professional' photographers here in Sydney (in the course of my networking since I moved out here) and I noticed the interesting thing that every one of them was drawn to comment about a different image in the series. Only one ever commented on the one _I_ thought was my favourite... so, yes, tastes vary. I'm ok with that. I just genuinely feel that one-liners (positve or otherwise) are pointless as a critique. I also genuinely feel an image that demonstrates what you are explaining is much better. I guess why I posted the images to the Gallery is more like a visual conversation rather than RFCs. I certainly don't worry too much about them (the reviews). I only talked about putting up images (as reviews) as an idea. I'll try and continue the same approach wherever possible. Best, Deen At 2002-12-06, 19:02:00 you wrote: >Deen, > >Suggestions on how one may modify an image is not criticism, but ideas. Like >a bunch of us having a beer at a local pub, bantering over the ideas of what >makes a good image, what makes memorable art. > >Galen Rowell took a philosophical viewpoint. Elliot Porter, a iconoclastic >point of view and John Shaw's point was for technical accuracy both in >exposure control and composition. All three would provide the gallery with >different assessments of just about anything discussed. > >I have never be attracted to model, advertising or wedding photography but >do feel it's important to suggest as a gallery review comment on what I >would find most interesting in viewing that type of imaging. > >How does one critique a news image if they spend their time photographing >nudes or studio product shooting? > > >Take care, >Gregory david Stempel >FIREFRAMEi m a g i n g
