Hey Bob.....there seems to be a serious problem here, and I have no desire whatsoever to find a solution. Henceforth your posts will be filtered into my trash basket. -dan c. t 09:26 PM 30-08-05 +0100, Bob Talbot wrote: >http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html >>Never done this before, so bear with me! ;-) > >Well, all credit to you old chap: there's no better way of telling >someone how it should be done that there is by showing them. > >In hindsight: how does the attempt (first as it is) compare with your >own expectations of what it should have been. > >Earlier you said: >>When I critique a photo, I try and look at its artistic merits only, >>and avoid trying to second guess what someone pictured in >>the photo may have been feeling or thinking at the time the >>photo was taken. >and >>I expect people to evaluate it for what it is, and not worry about >>the model herself, what she may or may not be doing at the time >>of the exposure, or if she's comfortable or not. > > > >> Qkano: Caz >> Cute happy snap, timed perfectly > >It's intriguing how such a seemingly innocuous commetn can be read two >ways. On the surface it's a compliment. But when so short, against a >background of 11 other longer reviews ... paranoia might suggest >otherwise. > >An then, there is the "cute" tag. >I'd expected (should I say been prepared for) a host of different >comments on this image: cute was not amongst them. I'd expected >people not to like it: > >Did the comment I attached to the image >"The sort of photo everybody would take ... " >mislead the viewer. > >I must say I've seen a lot of cute kiddie photos in may time (find >them as booring as crap) and I don't remember a single parent showing >me one like this - or even another one like it anywhere else. Maybe >it's because, not being a parent, I never got the "ooooh" genes >switched on. > >I see much more in the image than it being a snapshot - but the >snapshot tag is what it deserves in the reviewer's eyes. > >So who is wrong? > >Personally I'd rather have had utter dislike than "Cute happy snap". >It's not a bad comment: it just does not fit with my own artistic >preconceptions. > >Thanks for taking the time to review, > > >BobT > > > > > > > > > > >
