Ok...so i submitted this photo for the D&L challenge...
ampersand controversy aside, i received a few comments from people who decided to vote my photo low, simply because they thought my subject matter to be morally wrong...i'm assuming that many more voted this way since i received 21 1's...
unless i'm wrong, we're supposed to be voting on the quality of photo and it's adherence to the challenge, not our moral beliefs....If you don't like the subject, that's fine, but don't give it a low vote just because you don't agree with the subject....If you thought the lighting, angle, exposure or color was bad, then fine, vote it low....If you're not going to vote on what we're here to vote for, then just skip it with no vote at all...It makes no sense to give a technically good photo a low vote because it's of something you don't condone....I don't condone drugs myself...Never even tried them once in my life...But I thought it would make a gripping image in a photojournalistic sort of way...i do magazine layout for a living, and i guess it was that side of me coming into play.
and for the record, that's crushed up TUMS in the photo :P |
