basil brush Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Anyone read the discussion on the current POW? Makes me want to drop my camera in the nearest rubbish bin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socke Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 What's POW? Prisoner of War? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony_m1 Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Picture Of the Week. Home page of pnet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry_dunn Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 I really don't know about cinnamon sticks, or POW's. Please explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phule Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 I don't think last weeks POW discussion was any more worthless than usual, but that's just me :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambor Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 I think I stopped caring about POW about 6 months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 I have never bothered with the front page of photo.net. I go straight to www.photo.net/bboard every time. I haven't looked at POW since there was one of of a red plastic ball on a piece of agricultural equipment in the middle of a field. (A few years ago now.) It put me off reading those posts forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Whatever happened to the doll's-head-on-a-stick craze? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 I think it's very well-done. It's from a genre I don't particularly care for, but that doesn't make it any less well-done. I've seen related types of work in Lenswork Magazine, in galleries, and museums. One must be careful not to confuse one's taste with the value of something to other people. Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumba Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 The POW discussion is repulsive. Technical, clinical, sterile and creativity-killing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy m. Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 As far as spice portraiture goes, it is one of the best images I have seen for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek_stanton2 Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 It's funny to see how the digital movement (including Photoshop with scanned files) has led to the adoption of the Histogram as a rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl_larocca1 Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Well said Jeff. A similar corollary is that some with strongly held opinions confuse that which is believed with that which is true. I believe all opera to be rubbish. I'm almost certain it isn't true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 <I>"It's funny to see how the digital movement (including Photoshop with scanned files) has led to the adoption of the Histogram as a rule."</I><P>No funnier than those who have spent decades preaching the "Zone System" as a rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Spot on Josh. Well said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Puccini's Turandot is beautiful. It brings me to tears evertime I listen to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basil brush Posted December 13, 2004 Author Share Posted December 13, 2004 Just to clarify, I thought the photo was perfectly fine. It was the histogram fondling and pixel peeping which thoroughly depressed me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom h. Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 I'll go with Jeff on this one, not my cup of tea, but a definite thought process at work (sounds much more common than it actually is)- and the amount of people imprinting themselves (by their edits) on the original is quite telling. Like a photoshop pissing contest at the photographers expense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abufletcher Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 When looking a photos that are new or different, I've found it's important to hold off being judgemental right away. Sometimes a photo takes a while to grow on you. In fact, I've taken photos that I thought were absolute garbage only to realize sometime later that this garbage shot was actually the biest of the bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_lo_..._t_o Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 The high key Perfect Chick with the darkened eyes? I don't know what the discussion is- but the picture is awful. Just awful.It represents an adolescent esthetic, like so many POWs. And as usual the photographer has many superior images in her folders, although gimmicks predominate in some of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart_richardson Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 John -- that is the new photo of the week...it is just up today I guess. Last week's was a still life of some cinnamon sticks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les_lammers Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 *I think typed words about art are difficult at the best of times.* Absolutely. Additionally, we are individuals and the way *we* may envision the final print can be very different than the photographer. Nothing wrong with that either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger_michel Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 i always liked basil brush. i hope you do nothing to sully the fine reputation of that estimable fox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les_lammers Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Roger, I agree with Basil. It's crass to rub the nose of the photographer inyour vision of an image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_lo_..._t_o Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Actually I thought the cinnamon sticks were among the better POWs in the past year. Not very exciting (to me), but... The moderator seems to value technical perfection above all other values, and if there's a good gimmick with it, she sees Art. Is there a revival of Pictorialism going on, esp., in eastern Europe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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