Have to know that photography has to deal with many aspects, it is
multi-faceted indeed, including science, arts, craftmanship and
such and such. Boasting one aspect without acknowledging and
respecting others could be problematic, at least I see being
attacked by others, especially when others' dignity being intruded.
Ment to be an invitation for SD9/SD10 photographers to show their real photographic emotions in th eS&G gallery, as there seems not to be any of you over there,
Said to be meant to be an invitation, it may be analyzed from a
psychological point of view. Motive behind may be guessed from the
words that jacques used. As I said, the title, then the first
paragraph, all meant to be something related to have some kind of
hidden meaning. Why is that so? Can you see jacques posting his
invitation to other forums? If this has something to do with
inviting photographers in general the importance of paying
attention to image itself rather than the equipment, he may need to
do so to at least most of others to prove himself his intention
being as such. So it should not be directed to Sigma SLR Talk
Forum members. It should extend to others, and including the film
users as well. So he may try to post it to the well-known
photo.net where there are lots of people willing to judge gallery
photos.
Barry Thompson replied as such:
That really is a great shot and conveys in an admiable way the speed and power of the event.
I would rather not say so unless I take the meaning behind the
sentence so written as being opposite. The people seem jumping
from height to the ground rather than dashing to work. A
horizontal panning technique would be more appropriate to show the
speed and power of the people. So I would rather think that is
camera shake, or a deliberate not paying attention to what one
wants to convey. A casual shot of such can be produced by any
other without knowledge of photography (as ding1 said, a point and
shoot camera can also achieve that).
Actually this Sigma SLR Talk is designed for us to communicate on
its usage. The fact that Sigma SLR Talk members seldom post
message to the Samples & Galleries Forum doesn't automatically
equate to their lack of concern towards image's artistic aspect.
We may choose to post in other forums or sites (such as the pbase,
photosig, etc), we may choose to print out large and hang on the
wall, we may choose to show the real pictures to our friends to
appreciate, or we may do whatever way to achieve the same goal.
I see many Sigma owners posting their pictures out of courtesy for
others, such as this:
http://www.pbase.com/lmatson/sd9_images
Are these Samples? Yes, I would say so. Are these Galleries?
Yes, I would say so.
So, have they not posted to Samples & Galleries? No, I wouldn't
say so. The only difference from jacques' view is that it is not
in the dpreview site only.
Canonians also have their site:
http://www.canonians.com/
where there are also galleries. Why aren't they reminded to visit
more to the Samples & Galleries Forum? Left to all others to think.
Anyway, I wish my interpretation of jacques' motive is incorrect.
Or maybe jacques can make himself clear to us what he really means
in order to lessen the misunderstanding.
LP