Everyone gets a trophy

[pentaxuser]

Funny you should say that because Southwest France is exactly where she is....along with 20 more orphans just like her 🫪

Let's hope that citoyen Robespierre doesn't find them

pentaxuser

 

[Thwyllo]

Let's hope that citoyen Robespierre doesn't find them

pentaxuser

They have to get through my wife...

 

[Thwyllo]

But if course the key thing is, it's hard to take a bad picture of a cat isn't it...

 

[chuckroast]

Hopefully people who want to tear the work of others apart can accept criticism about their criticism. I have found that is rarely the case.

+1

I find that they rarely want to even post their own work.

Online criticism has to be tempered by the fact that the creator is likely doing the work to suit themselves and that monitors never agree on contrast, brightness, or color spaces.

 

[chuckroast]

But if course the key thing is, it's hard to take a bad picture of a cat isn't it...

I concur ... Larry sez "Hi" ...

 

[Pieter12]

+1

I find that they rarely want to even post their own work.

Online criticism has to be tempered by the fact that the creator is likely doing the work to suit themselves and that monitors never agree on contrast, brightness, or color spaces.

If the creator is doing the work to suit themselves, then what is the purpose of posting it?

 

[CMoore]

Lulu has an expression on her face that says it is 1789 France, her neck is resting on something and she is saying "I knew there had to be a snag with being an aristocrat's cat "

pentaxuser

Let's hope that citoyen Robespierre doesn't find them

pentaxuser

They have to get through my wife...

Good Heavens, i am impressed.
I did not go to school however, so perhaps that is not saying much

But seriously............ it is true i am not an educated person, but your knowledge of history has to be above "normal"
Did you guys study it for some reason.?

And forget the "art" of photography.................that was some damn, fine word-smithing to describe the cat

Once again, pardon my ignorance, but ... Robespierre ... i thought he was one of the good guys.
Opposed to racism, death penalty, wage slavery and stuff like that.?
But i not any kind of scholar or historian, so maybe i am thinking of the wrong person.
Wasn't this guy some type of "progressive" attorney or politician.?

Was he a cat hater.?

 

[chuckroast]

If the creator is doing the work to suit themselves, then what is the purpose of posting it?

To share their love of an image.

Potentially to ask for help improving it. That is not same as urinating all over someone's post because you don't like the image.

 

[Pieter12]

To share their love of an image.

The it's really not just to suit themselves, is it?

 

[chuckroast]

The it's really not just to suit themselves, is it?

They make the image to suit themselves. They share it because of their pleasure with said image. Those are not contradictory statements.

 

[Vaughn]

Hear Hear................... and enough with the damn Rocks and Trees already

Hear! Hear! And no more damn portraits! Eight billion people on this planet, we got people all around us all the time, and we got to look at their faces all the time. Who needs photos of we don't know??!!

On-line critiques are difficult. Craft supports and strengthens the image in the making of a print, however most of the qualities of craft disappear in the translation to the computer screen, especially with alt processes. My goal is to combine craft and vision in the making of a photographic print. I can only show half of any print on a computer screen.

Silver gelatin prints have the image trapped in a layer of gelatin on top of paper. Platinum and similar prints have the image trapped in the fibers of the paper. Carbon prints have an image formed by different thickness of pigment-containing gelatin that can rise above the surface of the paper. However on a computer screen they all have the same surface quality.

Many of us do not have the equipment/skills to reproduce our work well for online, many have skills that shine. It is difficult to accurately critique work from inaccurate online reproduction.

We all have access to critique all images on this forum. All it takes is a message to the poster asking if they would like feedback...and if they do, would they prefer to have the critique public or private. Otherwise, giving unwanted negative feedback is just rude.

And lastly (yeah, right), in most cases, a helpful critique should know what the photographer was trying to do/say. If they purposefully break one or more 'rules', for example, a helpful critique can focus on how the positive and negative effects of breaking those rules affects the perception of the image to the viewers.

 

[Vaughn]

The it's really not just to suit themselves, is it?

And many times, is it not the same for those who wish to publicly critique?