Summer dream

MIRE TODOS TUS TRABAJOS Y REALMENTE SON UNA MARAVILLA------UN ABRAZO-------DANY.

Great tones and model, best of the bunch.

After going through your portfolio I`m sad to say that you haven`t exactly improved over the years.

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Jenny seems to have picked on me today, making rude comments on more than one of my images. Unfortunately she does not say just what is bothering her. I invite readers to click on Jenny's name. She has submitted one photograph, which I think is of high quality and deserving of high ratings. Perhaps she will agree to give me more useful criticism in the future.

Jerry, after several months on the site now, I still haven't figured out what motivates some people to do as above. I think it's some kind of anger that they are expressing, probably with themselves, but it has nothing to do with the photos under evaluation. As you rightly point out, it is most often people that have posted next to nothing themselves, so there is no way of evaluating their level of expertise. They also take refuge in their anonymous status, but ultimately there is no real outlet, so it must feed on their frustration even further.

I have just been through your portfolio again and I find that you work is very highly imaginative and artistic. This particular photo is superb. It mixes the mystical with the esthetic and works wonders with the mind. I cannot give it anything but 10/10.

Well don't we all find photos that ticks us off because they are tasteless, a potentially wonderful photo spoiled by a minor detail easily fixed, not cropped they way we want to, showing something so uninteresting before we manage to fall asleep click on the next photo. The reasons are many.

 

If I look at my own thoughts on what I see on Photo.net I see so many photos I easly could give a 1/1 rating but I don't bother. Unless I motivate my rating it only sounds like bitterness. -If it's bad, when people just write 'PERFECT 10/10!!!' no comment seems necessary. -Why not?

 

I see som many photos that I would like to comment furhter but I don't have time for all of them. Good photos, bad phots. Critisism isn't only about complaining.

John I recall your debate some time ago, sorry about it. But really, as you say, why bother? You have received so many nice comments from so many other people. I also like several of your photos. Jerry, listen to John, he's right. The one critising you backs up her critisism with one very good photo of her own on Photo.net, many don't.

 

Jenny's only posted photo to date is not really comparable to yours' as it is a regular portrait. And a very good one it is. More of my thoughts on that on her pages. Suffice it to say that you need to know a bit about photography to take such a portrait.

 

Jenny, I see what you mean on most of your comments, but not this one. But why not spell out what you think? This is far from the best photo of a girl I have seen on Photo.net but it doesn't disturb me the least either. Some of the other photos you have commented are tryly distatesful and a waste of film, time and money. This is at least a serious attempt to take a creative photo. I personally cannot say I like it, but I understand why others do.

Jerry has taken some superb glamour shots, but this is still the one that intrigues me the most. Both in the models' pose and in the background, I see an interplay of passion and tranquility which gives the picture tremendous force.

Jerry, why don't you send a copy to AMERICAN PHOTO for their annual competition?

Looks like a Michaelangelo work...

Well, for some reason they give you another chance to submit a photo

some years after it is first sent in. I want to thank all those who

commented before and find the need to confess - no, proclaim that this

is a composite photo; the model being photographed in the studio and

the background in Canada. The first was in color and the second in

black and white. Both were on film, converted to digital. I carefully put it

in my composite images folder but I guess no one ever looks to see.

Since no one ever mentioned it, I suspect that everyone believed it was

a single photo. I think there is a huge future in photography for such

Photoshop procedures as they simply add to the tools we can use.

nice shot