A Delicate Subject

[todd frederick]

Your question is much larger than any of us can discuss or resolve on this forum.

 

Every one of us takes photos (or paints, or make quilts, or rebuilds classic cars) for deeply personal reasons.

 

The bottom line is this (and you can't escape this truth!)...Nothing is permanent! All things will disintegrate and decay.

 

So, the moment is NOW. If someone takes what you consider to be a shitty photo...so what. It's a masterpiece to that photographer.

 

There are no standards of "perfection." There are not "rules." What works for you, works...right now...you, your vision, your camera, and the present moment.

 

The photograph is only a "reminder" of what you saw, what you experienced, and what was important to you at that moment in time...not good; not bad; no duality. Your photo is your photo...that's all.

 

No photosgraph has any value in and of itself other than the photographer's personal experience of that moment in time.

[raymond_tai]

The Leica forum is part of Photo.net now so why not just use the Photo

Critique section for such posts? Whether or not a photo was taken with a

Leica is totally irrelevant except to the photographer. Of course if someone

posts a photo just because it was taken with a Nocticron then it would be OK

:{}

[nesrani]

"So, the moment is NOW. If someone takes what you consider to be a shitty photo...so what. It's a masterpiece to that photographer.

 

There are no standards of "perfection." There are not "rules." What works for you, works...right now...you, your vision, your camera, and the present moment.

 

The photograph is only a "reminder" of what you saw, what you experienced, and what was important to you at that moment in time...not good; not bad; no duality. Your photo is your photo...that's all.

 

No photograph has any value in and of itself other than the photographer's personal experience of that moment in time."

 

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I couldn't disagree more.

[joseph_barbano]

I refuse to enter into a diatribe with respondents on this website regarding this topic. Unfortunately, there are apparently a number of respondents to this site who are extraordinarily sensitive about this topic or their photographic capabilities and because of this, the overall standard for photographic evaluation is tempored at the expense of useful and constructive feedback. If one's work were critiqued by a very knowledgeable and experienced critic (such as an editor from National Geo, the New Yorker, American Photo, or from Magnum), the overwhelming majority of comments about the photos would center around very basic issues such as composition, lighting, exposure, subject, balance, focus point, etc. These are basic issues in photographic endeavor. In fact, most photos fail because of problems with these basic issues and not due appreciating some subjective esoteric insight.

[Tony Rowlett]

Oops, my mistake. I mean to say: "and it is a great example of how to critique." I transposed a few letters there.