Bob Talbot <BobTalbot@st-abbs.fsnet.co.uk> wrote/replied to: >OK: first, it's debatable if the most creative are indeed the most >modest/sensitive. But taking it as read: the pressure your paragraph >puts on reviewers. >For me it's hard enough to actually comment on 12 images. To have to >agonise on whether it will hurt feelings or not, whether things could >be misread etc may indeed place me in "strait jackets of hesitancy and >self conciousness" ;o) > >The question of course is whether harsh comments are better than no >comments. Exactly. We put up photos to get feedback of what others on the list think of them. There's nothing else at stake here. Many times I myself feel reviewers just don't get my photo. They make suggestions that frankly I don't care for. I have made choices in my art. I have placed, cropped, and presented an image the way I felt like. I take all reviews, think about it, and go on with my life. Sometimes I learn something from it. Sometimes I simply say too, you can't please everyone all the time... I complained once that many reviews were simply too sugar coated. It's very well and good to find some redeeming feature in every image. Sometimes that is very hard indeed to do. But when I do a review I am giving my opinions as the image strikes me. Perhaps I make a suggestions why it doesn't work or why it does, or what might have made it better. I like the reviews I get here. Rarely does anyone love an image I submit, rarely does anyone sugar coat their feeling about the images. Frankly, the images I pick to send to the gallery are not my best images, but some of those that I'm in doubt about, or I think would be interesting to others. It doesn't mean I think they are fantastic art because I submitted them. I sure hope we haven't squashed any genius here :-) Jim Davis - checkout the Motorcycle Headlight Relay Kit at: http://jimdavis.oberro.com/html/bike_acc_.html
