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wmchauncey

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User Critiques
« on: December 20, 2014, 11:04:49 pm »

I might suggest that before any image is posted in the "User Critiques" section...
the photographer should first ask himself, "is this image one that I would want to hang in my living room?".        :-\
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Slobodan Blagojevic

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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2014, 11:08:49 pm »

Bernard Shaw: "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same"

Besides, the purpose of critique is to learn, so that one day we can hang something in our living room with pride.
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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2014, 07:48:15 am »

I might suggest that before any image is posted in the "User Critiques" section...
the photographer should first ask himself, "is this image one that I would want to hang in my living room?".        :-\

"Might" is the operative word here...

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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2014, 08:04:31 am »

You are correct Peter...it was poor wording on my part.        :-[
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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2014, 09:57:24 am »

I actually try not to comment on images that either leave me indifferent or make me think "that's poor".
(Very occasionally I will ask "what am I missing"...)

I wonder if I'm alone.
I know what constructive critique is, but I'm reluctant to try to offer it unless it's explicitly begged for--lest the artist think I'm not being constructive. Faceless words on the internet can so often be misinterpreted. In most cases, I'm really not into hurting an artist's feelings, and never unwittingly.
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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2014, 10:21:41 am »

Well, shawnino, you just hurt my feelings! Since you've never commented on my pictures, am I to conclude that they "either leave you indifferent or make you think 'that's poor'"? ;)

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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2014, 03:54:44 am »

I frequently see images that I like but don't comment mainly because others have said it all. Adding +1 all the time isn't good practise, though I occasionally do. Then there is the poster who gushes on with endless lines of admiration and you wonder what he/she sees that you don't. A wild imagination?

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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2014, 11:00:26 am »

I frequently see images that I like but don't comment mainly because others have said it all. Adding +1 all the time isn't good practise, though I occasionally do. Then there is the poster who gushes on with endless lines of admiration and you wonder what he/she sees that you don't. A wild imagination?
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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2014, 12:58:06 pm »

I guess you could say that my main gripe is with street scenes...yeah, I know that their are some hanging in museums and whatnot...
but, who among us would hang pictures of strangers in our living room?      ::)
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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2014, 02:57:56 pm »

I guess you could say that my main gripe is with street scenes...yeah, I know that their are some hanging in museums and whatnot...
but, who among us would hang pictures of strangers in our living room?      ::)

To answer your question, Chauncey: I for one. And I'm far from alone. The point isn't who the people are. The point is what the photograph itself brings to you. Isaac made the point very well with his pointed sarcasm.
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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2014, 05:03:03 pm »

Russ, and Isaac for that matter, it must be that people in general don't rank that high on my priority list of things I enjoy looking at on my walls.
Consider for a moment all the evils that mankind has inflicted upon this world throughout time immemorial.     ::)
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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2014, 05:55:11 pm »

Oh, where are the villagers with their torches and pitchforks...that's like a stake trough my heart Doctor Frankenstein.
Of coarse I would allow the plebeians to opt for something different, regardless of however lowbrow it might be.      ;D   ;D
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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2014, 12:34:25 pm »

C'mon guys...you do realize that I was jesting with my last comment?         ;D
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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2014, 05:54:16 pm »

C'mon guys...you do realize that I was jesting with my last comment?         ;D
Only those that don't understand smileys haven't realized it.   ;)
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Re: User Critiques
« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2014, 08:57:56 am »

Learn from Paul Cézanne or any other influential artists instead,  who are full of themselves with very huge ego and don't give a shit to what others think of their works. Great art has always been create out of creative mind.  To be creative, contrary to what you're led to believe,  you really have to be angry or at least dissatisfied.
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