I still stand by if you\'re going to tear up someone\'s work or offer your detailed advice, you should post up your own work/links - certainly, one\'s ideals about \'good\' or \'correct\' photography are questionable when their own work doesn\'t demonstrate their ability to shoot a solid photograph. People are surely entitled to their opinions, but critical, specific analysis has to come from somewhere - it\'s almost a joke to read the People forums sometimes, where I\'ve seen a professional fashion photographer\'s work get beatdown by those who couldn\'t shoot a frame of it or even begin to understand it. \'it\'s too dark\', \'that light isn\'t correct\', \'you might want to fix XXXX in post\' - meanwhile, the shot is nearly flawless. If the shooter says \'no, this is actually correct because...\' he gets flamed by the masses for not accepting critique - meanwhile, others reading this thread are taking this bad advice at face value, because they critiquers have a high post count and not because they understand the style. Had the \'experts\' left some of their own work available for a discerning person to take a look at, one could see if they spoke from experience or out their ###es - just because you can use your Color Sample tool and see and image clipping or not does not mean you know the first thing about why a photograph does or doesn\'t work.
Wow, was that ever out there. Like, that crazy relative at Christmas dinner.
Tony Hoffer wrote:
Some people are great, some I could live without
Tony LURVES me!
Mar 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM
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