LOL. I got personal messages here telling me I was "wasting precious film and paper" and "to give up"The odd comments I've experienced have generally been from people who think they have a monopoly on what counts as good photography. On one occasion I even received a private message here, from someone who thought my images were too low in contrast...
I once shared a snapshot of an evenings worth of prints drying on the line. One person asked, "Why did you make so many copies of the same image?".
I think that is totally valid question
Valid for sure, I just found it odd. For other runs I could've joked that the prints are offerings to the gods of toning and ferrotyping!
On my last postcard exchange I printed 35 cards in caffenol. "Last night I made 35 photos of same subject using coffee" - I'm pretty sure that would silence any lunch table
anonymous people on the internet are the bestest aren't they ?
I always figure they are all 13 year old girls, or someone’s Jack Russell Terrier... lots of people fake identities or have some sort of thing where they have an online persona .. as Jim Morrison sang. .. people are strange..I often wonder how these people would behave in the real world. Some of these anonymous commenters don't put up any images either which I tend to find odd.
When out with the 4x5 - "Can you still get film for that?" Response - "Why would I be shooting with it if I couldn't?"
From a MA camera club judge (yeah, I know) - "Well, it's definitely a sky replacement. You don't get real skies like this here." Got a very low score. The sky was unaltered. All I did was clone out one tree in a distracting spot. I shot it when we lived in Iowa.
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Reminds me of shooting in a small town in northern Iowa last December. I was wandering down main street shooting interesting scenes and buildings and this lady came out and said:
"Can I help you?"
and I paused, then replied
"I don't know. What are your powers?"
She went back inside.
I once went to a film camera club's meeting. I was a student then and very low on money. We talked about darkroom work and I told that unfortunately I haven't been able to do any printing for some time as I don't have the money to pay for the access to darkroom. One of the members told that "if you're not willing to pay 60€ for the membership then maybe you should quit photography altogether".
It was the first and the last time I went there. Not just because of that comment, but because the atmosphere wasn't very nice or inviting. I don't see any point in gathering once a week to laugh at how stupid things some beginner wrote on the internet.
Clearly not. Unless it was the goalkeeper handling the ball is a foulI remember a camera club judge evaluating an excellent sports photograph submitted by a friend. It was a shot of a receiver leaping with (CFL) football in outstretched hands in an attempt to break the plane of the goal line immediately above and slightly to the correct side of the large orange foam vertical marker of the corner formed by the sideline and the goal line. The player's face was sharp as a tack, and everything else was progressively out of focus, including the incredibly important orange marker..
The comment made by the judge: "try to exclude that distracting orange element from the photograph".
Clearly not a football fan!
You quickly learn to ignore personal insults, or better yet, turn them into compliments.
“The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.” - artist Rosa Bonheur
One of my all time favorite actors."les imbécilités autour de nous, nous laissent point d'espoir" quote by the French/Swiss actor Michel Simon.
It's very hard to come up with something really new.Someone anonymously wrote in a comment book “Outdated, overprinted, cliched garbage” about some of my prints.
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