Sorry if I put it in the wrong place, but where does it say anything about "how the site (Photrio) is working"? If what you say is correct, most of the posts need moving......Regards!The more immediate my response to a photograph, the less likely it will have staying power with me.
And I'm happy to learn about how others react to a photograph - photographs are a communicative medium, and other people's view of them are often very interesting.
Sometimes, other people's views reveal to me things in the photographs that I totally missed.
By the way, this thread is in the forum intended to deal with how the site (Photrio) is working. I've "reported" it so the moderators, who will probably move it soon to somewhere more appropriate.
The "Feedback and Discussion" sub-forum is in the "Photrio Related" part of the site, and has these words at the top:Sorry if I put it in the wrong place, but where does it say anything about "how the site (Photrio) is working"? If what you say is correct, most of the posts need moving......Regards!
It's good to find someone with the same opinion.Other's opinions of photos don't affect me. Same for paintings - I think Picasso was mostly crap.
It's like in real life. The opinion of others can't make you love, or even like, a certain woman if you don't feel attracted by her.
I have been looking at photographs "critically" for 69 years. Over the years I have seen many that I liked and many that I didn't like. Some of those that I did not like were praised by others. I can usually tell whether I like it or not in the first few moments that I see the picture. I am only talking about Black and White and I can usually tell you why I like or don't like it. What is your reaction when viewing a picture for the first time?
I bought a photo book, Deep South by Sally Mann. I knew her work a little, mainly the shots of her family and I love reading about the South, especially the books of James Lee Burke. The large format camera seemed to give the results of a pinhole, blurred, messy, weird compositon. I put the book aside with a feeling I had wasted my money. A couple of months went by and the pictures stayed in my head so I went back to the book and this time I got the sense of it. I keep looking and each time I gain more. All the best, Charles. P.S. I am reading her autobiography, Hold Still. It is the best thing I have read in years and will compel me back to her photographs.
I love this post, greetings to Dan from Charles.I like her work very much, too. And I have the same experience in front of the great paintings or photographs I love - every time I am watching them I have a richer experience, It's like talking with an old and well-known friend, when in each discussion you discover new details of his personality. For instance I love a painting, a "Crucifixion" by Antonello da Messina from the National Museum in Bucharest. I sometimes feel the need to see it, like visiting an old friend, and go to the museum without paying any attention to any other painting, stop in front of the "Crucifixion", fill my soul with it for a while and then leave the museum.
So what if a video cost a lot and took tons of work to produce? If you don't like it, you don't like it. Dan Burkholder once said you don't get extra credit just because an image was hard to make. It's the end result that counts (or doesn't).People hand out 'likes' as if they cost a million bucks nowadays. I see films on YouTube that cost a lot to produce and tons of work to make. They have hundreds of thousands of views and only small amount of likes. People feel entitled that media be free nowadays.
"Attractive" is key. Even if one doesn't find an image "beautiful" it can be attractive. The image must have the effect to make one engage, stay with it, or revisit it.Photos are like women. You know immediately if they're attractive.
Picasso's "The Old Guitarist" from his Blue Period is the first work that comes to mind when I think of examples of expressive paintings!It's good to find someone with the same opinion.
I've absolutely loved painting since I was a kid and studied the history of art avidly. But while I love the work of some painters the work of others, Picasso included, don't tell me anything. For me he is more a brand, not a painter expressing his deep feelings in his art.
It's the same with photography. The technical perfection or the opinions of others can't replace, for me, the absence of a genuine expression of the deep feelings of the artist.
It's like in real life. The opinion of others can't make you love, or even like, a certain woman if you don't feel attracted by her.
Attraction is transitory and unless supplemented with much, much more, essentially unimportant.Photos are like women. You know immediately if they're attractive.
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