Disclaimer: this is not a personal attack rodbam, its far from it. In fact, it > simply me voicing a slightly different perspective.
This is what I'm on about the toleration of people with different perspectives & or posting styles.
"Its all good," but you missed my most significant reason for liking > photography. Thats OK though, because its "mine" and maybe not > yours. Either way, you missed it rodbam and it shouldn't be lost in the > fray.
I'm not sure what you mean here Scott, what did I miss? I think you mean from reading below that I haven't included the people that are not artistic but have learned the rules of photography & apply these rules to their shots as anyone can do this & not all people can be artistic. I'm fully aware of this & post regularly to these people, I'm defiantly not saying that we all have to strive to be artistic as enjoying a hobby is the most important thing. If one is lucky enough to be artistic that's great.
Again, this is just my humble opinion (JMHO).
It doesn't make it correct or wrong, it simply makes it mine, but I > suspect its not solely mine. BTW, I think that we do not learn the > component I speak of, as we do the technical component of > photography. It was evolving and growing long before we were > introduced to a camera and there is no right or wrong, just different. > Anyway, the basic concepts of photography that must be learned CAN > be learned by anyone. It doesn't take any special ability or some certain > level of intelligence. Its fairly straight forward stuff and if you are smart > enough to learn how to read, then you are smart enough to learn the > basics of photography (from a technical standpoint). I would be willing to > bet the f2 lens on my G6 that everyone participating on this forum > knows how to read. The difference between photos often comes form > outside the technical area. Thats the subjective component, or to use > your terms the "very personal" component.
I agree anyone can learn the basics of photography & good on them, I have nothing against people enjoying photography even if they don't have an artistic bone in their body. I fail to see where you got the impression that I only have time or acknowledge only artistic photographers. I’m normally one of the few including yourself that take the time to encourage the artiiiiisticly challenged
More so a year or two ago as very few people commented on other peoples shots or entries that wern't so good but yourself & me always did. The interaction here is very good now.
Haha, this is a great concept. I am sure that there are people that find > different values and appreciation in the photos posted on this forum. I > am not sure if this forum would be better off if everyone looked and > commented on photos from your perspective. I suppose its all a matter > of expertise... or is it personal opinion? I guess sooner or later we will all > get there... or will we? Or better yet... should we? Again, there is a > component of individual taste, so maybe we shouldn't all try to fit in the > same box?
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That's my point Scott I don't think we should all fit in the same box regarding posting styles as we are all different & I like to read the differences but with all the IMHO & saying sorry before & after critiquing is why I call it it McDonalds. It's not that I'm impolite it's just that is me.
My wife Mereana has some of the letters I sent her from before we were married & they read just like one of my posts here so I'm not trying to be controversial or just different I'm just being me & will continue to do so.
You will notice that this post is a little more sensible than my normal ones with no emphasis on fun as I'm trying to be serious. My posts to Mickey were in fun with no anger but I meant what I said, I think this is how some people get confused with my posts as they don't know if I'm being serious or joking. When I post like this I'm being serious even with the poor grammar.
There's no real reasoning behind my posting technique it's just that I'm more comfortable writing the way I really talk, whereas this post if I talked like this my friends would think I've gone all posh.
I have no problems with people taking my posts the wrong way but my surprise comes when people who have been reading my posts for years have trouble deciding whether I'm a decent bloke or not, whether I have a good heart, whether I'm rude or not, whether I'm a know all. It's like my last post is the one they judge me on. Do you remember when Max run a challenge & told us off for wasting bandwidth with mini controversies & such, saying that will drive the thread to its limit & he will have to start another thread so we should all be quite. Look at it now we're into the third thread. Most of you would have been polite & followed his wishes but I did my normal thing & told him a few things. Talking is what makes this place interesting & hopefully getting to know each other a little bit as we're now are with you, by you posting an in depth post for the first time I believe. I've really enjoyed the chat & seeing some of your inner thoughts. Thanks mate
I had to delete some of your comments I'm replying to as this post was too big & got rejected.
Regards Rod
