Emmanuel Enyinwa

Again, I did not wish to cause offense, but I studied those pictures carefully. I might have different refrigerators from David Seltzer, but I believe if one of those pictures were posted for critique here, and treated strictly as photographs of dance, not BARYSHNIKOV's photos of dance, I would hardly expect it to be on the home page. Now, this is not necessarily the end all and be all of the value of photographs, and perhaps, I'm a bit jaded, but those are my opinions.

Not particularly impressed. Great dancer, but these pictures are like children's art. When they're by your child, you can be forgiven for hanging them on the wall behind your office desk or on your fridge. When they are from a perfect stranger, they don't have quite the same effect.

May she rest in peace. The short time I knew her on this site, she was always genial and friendly, a lady of the highest quality who will surely be missed, but definitely not forgotten.

Thanks, Doug. It worked. The problem was that the 'source' click and drag option does not work on thumbnail preview, and I had the scanner set to automatic thumbnail preview. I wasted the better part of one week. Thanks everyone for your help. Emmanuel.

I need help with my epson perfection scanner. It cuts off my 4x5 negatives and

slides. Is there a simple way to correct this problem? Also, are there any

software to help the machine run faster? Finally, is there a way to sharpen

the image before scanning so you don't have to do a lens blur unsharp mask

later? Thanks in advance. Emmanuel.

Just my two cents. I think the idea of a rating system is somewhat silly because we are all sensitive to criticism. The funny thing about photography is that a lot of it is influenced by the quality of your equipment.

 

Someone with a sinar on the average will get better tones than someone with an old Practika, for instance. Then, add in the fact that some people are simply better at Photoshop than someone like me, for instance. Yet, it is the reality that raters look at an image and judge it on its merits without regard to how it got that way. Unfair? yes, but that's the way it works.

 

One MAJOR quibble I have, though, is the "originality" rating. Now, how is a photograph original, exactly, and why should lack of originality be a bad thing? How original were Ansel Adam's pictures? What about Irvin Penn or Brett Weston, who more or less copied his dad? But, yet, are you going to find better prints anywhere?

 

I've learned to not worry so much about the ratings. Some of my more highly rated pictures are not even my favorites, which are really the street candids and happy accidents I've encountered over the years. Some pictures have meaning to me, stories I cannot tell to an anonymous viwer in front of his computer screen. Should I not post these pictures because over the years they have acquired a little dust spot? Or because I shot it with a tiny disposable camera? Of course, NOT!

 

I find that my more "mature", tonally superior photographs can coexist with my more playful, spontaneous snapshots, of which I have many more. That is who I am, and why I take pictures.