Re: Differences fo opinion

[Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps you could resurrect it and use in 2017? Just change the names a bit and put it in Comic Sans.

On Jan 4, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Randy Little wrote:

Because its fun and I said I would post a picture of Drake brothers to someone on the list.   I though it was a pretty neat business card for circa 1917.  

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On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 4, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Trevor Cunningham wrote:

Gregory david Stempel - Street Lamps
   I love it. It's a perfect blend of contradiction. My pic of the gallery.

A Good minimalist grab shot.

Bob McCulloch - Boats
   Well seen, well arranged

This would be nice if Bob could stop putting everything in the middle and learn how to use negative space and how to direct the viewers’ eyes.

, well exposed. I like the errant ripple effect in the water.

Dan Mitchell - Android
   Not enough people in the shot to make it the horror it is.

There aren’t enough people in the shot? Not enough brains in the reviewer to notice that is on purpose? It should have been shot on a tripod with a real camera so the shutter speed could be slowed down to 1 sec or more to make the people bur out. 

Tina Manley - Children with Pig, 2002
   Reminds me of a trip to the island of Sumba. Too bad the pig is cut off...or, that just might mean dinner :)

Reminds me of a horror movie.

John Palcewski - Hand
   I love it. But I've been so infected by these diatribes of digital capture ruining photography that I might not be allowed to respect it.

It's a strange title meant to provoke comment and it works.

Yoram Gelman - Veranda in Decay
   Nice range of tones, but I end at that. The trees are all the decay I can see...maybe that's the point?

I believe the shot might have looked better as a horizontal and from a slightly higher camera position.

Christopher Strevens - The way.
   Flip the title with the details and you have a haunting photo essay.

Hmmmm, another minimalist composition.

Art Faul -
   Perfect capture, and I would expect nothing less. But, I do beg the question, what's the context? Again, spectacular control of light, sensational color balance...there's even lines to show how close to perfect the capture is...but it's completely empty unless I frequent that station. Your film effort is commendable in this age, but lost with a bargain-basement gradient background that fails to follow the light angle of a wastefully careful drop shadow. And why not just use Comic Sans?

I really hate the use of the word ‘capture’ as it makes me think of soldiers in a war. I know this never occurred to you, but the shot is supposed to feel empty. As to the background, obviously you don’t get it. Others do, but you don’t so I am not going to try to educate you. Do you have a background in design or have you worked with font designers like Herb Lubalin or Seymour Chwast? NO? Too bad.

Randy Little -
   Very cool! This could even pass as modern. But, I'm confused...did your uncle produce this, or was he the daredevil? What happened to Mervin?

I’m confused, not to dampen Randy’s spirits about his ancestors, but I don’t know what it is doing here. 

What seems to have happened to photography is that now we see and/or work with the smallest of details, reviewers pick apart the most minute unimportant points of an image rather than looking at the overall effect, general tone, or ‘feel’. Plus most of us are filled with a sense of impending fame which comes from everybody believing they are on the cusp of becoming widely known for their efforts in photography while nothing could be further from the truth. 

MY favorite time in photography was 20-30 years ago when I only had 50,000 competitors, and that was OK. Now any idiot with an iPhone believes that we compete, while in actuality, we do not.  IT used to be any idiot with a Rebel, but image quality is no longer desired, hence the growth of Instagram. 

Few of us look at presentation as we are too caught up in minutiae and the control we believe we have with software like PS or LR. It is as though we are award-winning photographers although deep down inside, we know we are not. PS is still crap in, crap out while we believe our ownership of superior image-making machines can elevate us to unforeseen heights. I wonder if the bubble is ever going to pop?

OK, we almost all want to be (rich) and famous and believe we can get there with our images despite the simple fact that the competition is more fierce than ever before.

Art Faul

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