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QuigleyComment by Quigley: MStone, you can't get offended if someone doesn't mark your comment as helpful or you'll drive yourself crazy.
Your first comment "funny shot. too posed for my liking though. I have seen other photos that are stages as well but they have a more realistic feel to them. great idea and good shot. Just not as believable as some other shots I have seen in this challenge. Good Luck!!" sort of ticked me off. Why? You told me what I already knew, it is posed. I would not be so insensitive to my son as to go and get my camera and take a shot of him possibly drowning in his milk, I would get him the heck out of it.
This shot was set up to be different and to provide the people viewing it with some humor. We've all been in this position at one time or another in our lives, either as a kid or an adult and I wanted to have some fun with it. The mother, who, until she's finished her coffee and newspaper is totally oblivious to all other goings on, the older brother, who is so out of touch in the morning, he could care less what happens to his little brother, he's looking right at him but he's not going to do anything. The little brother, who's so exhausted, in bed way to late and up way to early, he falls a sleep in his cereal, come on that's funny. Look at the trail of milk running across the table. My older sister did that when we were around 12 and I almost pissed myself laughing. Even the bird, Mel, she has no interest in saving the little one, she can't even watch. She is there in place of the rooster to wake everyone up with her morning song. (I doubt that anyone got that though) Everyone has bed head, and the empty seat and half finished plate of breakfast is to symbolize the real morning person, someone who is in such a rush to meet the day he can no longer wait for his family to wake up so he leaves without them. (this too was missed I'm sure by the voters)
I put so much in this shot and we had a great time as a family shooting it that when you turn on your computer and check your update button and find, not one, but two comments that state the same thing that you already know, you sometimes need a little while to cool off.
So that being said, I'll tell you what I read into your comment: "funny shot.", she likes it, "too posed for my liking though." she doesn't like it, "I have seen other photos that are stages as well but they have a more realistic feel to them." every one's entitled to their opinion, "great idea and good shot." oh maybe she likes it after all, "Just not as believable as some other shots I have seen in this challenge." OK now this is what she really thinks, and she still doesn't like it, "Good Luck!!" now she hopes she didn't tick me off.
Well that feels better. I hope you have a little more insight into what was going on and i would like you to know that the one that pushed my buttons the most was not your comment, it was " Looks posed" at least you tried to explain yourself and I just needed time to get back to it and think it through a little more, it's something I do often so I don't fire off a snarky message to someone without trying to see why they left the comment they did and how to properly respond to it. So you get the long winded explanation and the other guy gets "NO DUH"
I hope this helps and please, what ever you do, don't stop commenting on images that move you too, it's the most important thing on this site and the most helpful. They help you to get to know who you are as a photographer.
Oh and your second comment just prompted me to do what I was putting off for tonight because I was tired and now I've spent an hour and forty five minutes responding to you. I type slow and even slower when I'm tired :)~
All the best to you and yours.
MAX!
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