Hi fellow photographers,
We are launching a new photography service today at http://www.shuttercritic.com
Shutter Critic is a community for getting and giving honest, constructive and helpful photo critique. Its goal is to help you to improve your photography skills.
We're still in private beta and signups are available on invite-only basis.
The first 100 lucky ones can create their own free Shutter Critic accounts by using the invitation link below!
http://www.shuttercritic.com/signup/launch-100
Please contact us if you face any issues or want to share your ideas on how to improve Shutter Critic.
Best Regards,
Iiro-Pekka & Samuli
Critics?
I gave up on em. They are for gutless photogs that don't have any firm footing or direction. Sure they may provide something for the beginner. But take a look see at what they say about my work.
Then take a gander where my work is.
When they can hide behind the keyboard critics will say almost anything. In the 3 years since I have been putting most of my work online I have received maybe 5 or 6 comments I felt were deserving of my photography. But when it comes to negative remarks there is no shortage.
"Sad"
"I don't like color."
"I don't like BW."
"I don't like HDR."
"I don't selective color."
"I don't like diffusion."
"I don't like Hyper-Real HDR, it is too cartoonish."
"Your photos are too contrasty."
"Your photos are too grainy."
"Why don't you take pictures of something pretty like flowers or a sunset instead of those ugly things."
"Your trying to make something out of nothing."
"Your photos are too sensational."
"Don't photograph the homeless."
"Don't photograph kids without their parents' permission."
"I find photos of people boring."
"Your not a very good photographer."
"Your exploiting the homeless."
"Your photos don't work for me."
"I don't like flower photographs they are boring."
"What were you trying to say?"
"Digital photography is not 'real' photography."
"I find it disturbing you think your work is museum worthy."
"It is over processed."
"Don't take pictures of people in public without their permission."
"Don't photograph anorexics."
"Cover up her breasts."
"Your photos are staged."
"I don't like your photo because it leaves nothing for the imagination."
"What garbage."
“Never crop your photos. If you have to crop a photo it wasn’t meant to be taken.”
"Your disgusting."
"Your photography is vernacular."
"You should trash that photo."
"I don't like fisheye photos."
"You'll never win a Pultizer."
“Don’t shoot digital, shoot film, digital is no good.”
"Don't send unsolicited photos to museums."
"She (the person in the photo) is a drunk…she is fat…she is an attention whore…she needs to go to the gym…she is trailer trash."
"Your self-centered"
'Your self-absorbed"
'Your inconsiderate"
"I don't like wide-angle distortion."
"Your a phony...your all talk...you don't know how to take photographs." (When I don’t send in any photos to the photo forums.)
"Your a troll...your looking for attention...your trying to boost your website traffic." (When I do send in photos to the photo forums.)
"Your an egomaniac."
“I’d never shoot digital. If and when film becomes unavailable I will give up photography.”
"Your goofy"
"I think somebody should tell you: your shots are very boring, nothing is happening there, just very normal snapshots, and you are trying to make them look interesting by shooting with a wide angle and HDR...they are all trash."
"It looks horrible."
"Your have low moral character."
"It's a hack composite, looks like it was done for some Sunday paper magazine."
"It looks like the view through the bottom of my shot glass after my fourth tequila at Cozumel."
"15 seconds of my life I will never get back. What a waste."
Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion. When it comes to art...you can never argue taste - there is no right or wrong. But whenever the topic of 'opinion' comes up I must recount what Clint Eastwood's 'Dirty Harry' character said..."Opinions are like assholes...everyone's got one."
Regarding public collections, here is where my work is. I have photograph(s) and/ or limited edition hand-printed artists’ books at the following institutions:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Rhode Island School of Design - Special Collections Fleet Library, Rhode Island
Oxford Bodleian Library - Special Collections U.K.
Toronto University - Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library, Canada
British Library - Special Collections, U.K.
Rutgers University - Special Collections Library, New Jersey
Columbia University - Special Collections, Avery Fine Arts Library , New York
Art Center College of Design - Special Collections, California
Brown University - Special Collections Art Library, Rhode Island
University of California Berkeley - Special Collections Art Library, California
Oglebay Institute - Stifel Fine Arts Center, West Virginia
Mennello Museum of Art, Florida
The Art Museum at The University of Kentucky, Kentucky *
Mead Art Museum - Amherst College, Massachusetts
Victoria and Albert Museum - National Art Library, U.K.
NYU - Special Collections Fales Library, New York
Amherst College - Special Collections Library, Massachusetts
Stanford University - Special Collections Art & Architecture Library, California
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, China
Allen Memorial Museum - Oberlin College, Ohio
University of Exeter - Bill Douglas Centre, U.K.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center - Vassar College, New York
Flint Institute of Art, Michigan
Noyes Museum of Art - Stockton College, New Jersey
RISD Museum, Rhode Island
California State Library Sacramento - Special Collections, California
International Center of Photography - Special Collections Library, New York
Fashion Institute of Technology - Special Collections Marcus Library, New York
Wright State University - Special Collections Dept of Art and History, Ohio
American Motorcycle Museum - Pinkerton, Ohio
National University of Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Colby Museum of Art - Colby College, Maine
The Kinsey Institute, Indiana
University of Southern California - One Archives, California
Bibliotheque Kandinsky Special Collections - Centre Pompidou, France
Tweed Museum of Art - University of Minnesota, Minnesota
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas
Spencer Museum of Art - University of Kansas, Kansas
Yale University - Special Collections Haas Art Library, Connecticut
UCLA - Special Collections Charles E. Young Research Library, California
UCONN - Special Collections Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Connecticut
Brooklyn Museum Library - Special Collections, New York
Muscarelle Museum of Art - College of William and Mary, Virginia
The National Library of Sweden - Special Collections, Sweden
Museum of Fine Art Houston - Special Collections Hirsch Library, Texas
The University of Chicago - Special Collections Library, Illinois
The University of California Santa Barbara - Special Collections, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum Library - Special Collections, Washington D.C.
Corcoran Gallery College of Art - Special Collections, Washington D.C.
The University of the Arts - Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania
Reed College Library - Special Collections, Oregon
The Art Institute of Chicago School of Art - Flaxman Special Collections, Illinois
Ringling College of Art And Design - Special Collections Library, Florida
The Newberry - Special Collections, Illinois
New School Archives & Special Collections, New York
Cranbrook Academy of Art - Special Collections Library, Michigan
San Francisco Public Library - Special Collections, California
Maryland Institute College of Art - Special Collections, Maryland
National Library of South Africa - Special Collections, Pretoria, South Africa
Bard College - Special Collections Stevenson Library, New York
University of Pennsylvania - Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pennsylvania
University California Santa Cruz - Special Collections McHenry Library, California
SCAD - Special Collections, Georgia
The National Vietnam War Museum, Texas *
Mills College Library - Special Collections, California
Colby Library - Special Collections, Maine
University of Nevada Reno - Special Collections, Nevada
Northwestern University - McCormick Special Collections, Illinois
Boston Public Library - Special Collections, Massachusetts
University of Iowa - Martin Rare Book Special Collections, Iowa
University of Tulsa - McFarlin Special Collections, Oklahoma
Mudd Center - Special Collections Oberlin College, Ohio
New York Public Library - Special Collections, New York
Harvard Radcliffe Institute - Schlesinger Special Collections, Massachusetts
DePaul - Richardson Special Collections, Illinois
UIC - Special Collections, Illinois
University of Colorado - Anschutz Special Collections, Colorado
Cleveland Museum of Art - Ingalls Special Collections, Ohio
University of Kentucky - Special Collections, Kentucky
Trinity College Watkinson - Special Collections, Connecticut
Cushing/ Whitney Medical Library Yale Special Collections, Connecticut
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / German National Library - Special Collections, Germany
Harwood Museum of Art - University of New Mexico, New Mexico
University of London - Special Collections Senate Library, U.K.
National Library of Scotland - Special Collections, Scotland
Center for Creative Photography - Special Collections, Arizona
Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
University of Illinois at Chicago Daley Special Collections, Illinois
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minnesota
* Delivered - Pending Board Approval