BrianKraft wrote:
Al Downie wrote:
Haters gonna hate, and when it comes to deliberately flattening pictures to make them look like instagram snaps, I make no apology for being a hater. Subject, composition, timing, etc are all great, but it looks like you screwed it all up by pressing the wrong button. You can keep your bag of dicks though, if you promise to add a suffix to all future posts saying "Compliments only please".
I don't need compliments only. I have confidence in what I do and some folks disliking it does not bother me. You may not believe that, but it's true. So if you can imagine that, while you read what else I have to say, that would be great...
What bothers me is people who feel the need to criticize other people's work (not just mine... anyone's) just for the sake of being critical, and not being helpful to the receiver of the criticism. I asked the same question last week--about what the point was of such behavior--and the only answer I got was from one person saying something like "Hey, if you're putting your work out there, expect to get some criticism." That is a predictably, not well thought out, and irrelevant response to the question of "why do people feel the need to do it?"
Would you walk off the street and into a gallery where someone was exhibiting their photography on the walls, look around, then go up to the photographer and say "Some nice shots, completely ruined by how you processed them?" If you truly are an ingrate, then I suppose you might. But this sort of thing rarely, rarely, rarely happens in face-to-face interactions. But put up a computer monitor in front of your face and all of a sudden it's perfectly acceptable??
Again, my question is--what constructive thing comes out of the behavior? (hint: the answer is not 'if you put your work out there, it's what you can expect to get.' That doesn't answer the actual question). I suspect the person giving the criticism is doing it simply to make them feel better about themselves. I'm trying to imagine why else. Otherwise, if they were truly trying to be helpful, there would be something useful to the other person out of it. Like if someone posted several photos where there was camera shake apparent in the photos and it looked pretty clear as to not be an artistic attempt at something. It may be helpful to say, "Hey Joe Photog, you may already be aware and are working on it, but I noticed in some of your photos there is blurriness from what looks like too slow of a shutter speed. Are you familiar with the 'reciprocity rule'? Here's a link explaining it--I hope you find it useful!"
That is constructive criticism. The other type is not.
i especially like the first and two last shots. still playing and getting used to my x100s but it's a neat little cam.
