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Originally Posted by SteveHL Its a tricky one in that as you say Eeyore there is potential to hurt feelings.
A comment like " Oh thats rubbish , can't understand why it was even posted here!" wont help. Something like " Ok you've not got it right, but if you'd got down low to the ground and opened up to F12 you'd have got better Depth of field, and better shown the subject in its enviroment". |
you're bang on steve as far as the sought of general critiques likely to be needed here , but for aspiring pros (like erm, me) even savage criticism can be useful - I am a member of a limited access pro forum ( not giving the url here because you have to be invited in by a pro level "sponsor" which i'm not,) this forum is totallly closed access and cant even be viewed without a password, which enables people to be pretty free with what they say, but I have found that if an established pro continually says your pics are "unmitigated and total ***** " when he finally does say , "yeah that ones pretty good" then you know you can take that to the bank
Also picture editors are far more nasty in rejection than even the feircest critic , I remember a rejection letter which said "
these are unworthy of publication , please do not waste my time in this manner again" ouch indeed but it was sweet victory when the same guy paid me 200 notes for a cover picture - litterally punching air and dancing round office.