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.