fizzy wrote:
Impressions -- that's what I thought we were always doing here anyway. The technical aspects of a photograph should support the feeling it's trying to transmit. I don't think anyone has ever bought a photograph because it's a great example of bokeh.
I often see technically decent photos here that start to get comments like, "I'd crop the side" or "she should have been smiling" and so on, and I think, "Well, yeah, if he'd wanted to make a different picture." People start making technical comments that may be perfectly valid, but start missing the point of the picture. I know photographers here, and in general, enjoy the technical aspects of photography to a greater degree than I do. Not that I'm not technically adept, that's just not where the fascination is for me.
So I see the Impressions threads as a way to talk about the feelings and communication that happens with a picture, without getting into the technical stuff that sometimes pulls the discussion away from the particular picture completely. It puzzles the technical photographers who can't understand talking about a photo without talking about sharpness or noise or whatever, but gets more to the heart of why we do this, I think. ...Show more →
Well fizzy, that just about sums it up, Your point about "missing the point" is uhh.. right on point. Great thread contribution here....
