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02/02/2004 07:06:27 PM · #26
Originally posted by ganders:

...if someone tells me that my photograph has left them with no idea what I was trying to portray I consider my photograph to have failed.

The whole point of taking photographs to a theme is to convey that theme. If you're not conveying it, you're doing something wrong.


What if you did a fine job of conveying a theme? What if you did so with such finesse that it taxed the faculties of, say, a hundred voters and exceeded those of another hundred? What about the degree of effect a photo can have on individual voters? Does it matter how many of them there are? Does it not matter how profoundly a piece, photo or else, touches someone?

To consider a photo which accomplishes this a failure would strike me as undue and regrettable.


02/02/2004 10:36:25 PM · #27
Originally posted by zeuszen:

Originally posted by ganders:

...if someone tells me that my photograph has left them with no idea what I was trying to portray I consider my photograph to have failed.

The whole point of taking photographs to a theme is to convey that theme. If you're not conveying it, you're doing something wrong.


What if you did a fine job of conveying a theme? What if you did so with such finesse that it taxed the faculties of, say, a hundred voters and exceeded those of another hundred? What about the degree of effect a photo can have on individual voters? Does it matter how many of them there are? Does it not matter how profoundly a piece, photo or else, touches someone?

To consider a photo which accomplishes this a failure would strike me as undue and regrettable.

Sometimes getting a comment from one person who felt moved/touched by the photo, or who noticed something overlooked by everyone else, makes it all worth the 4.1372 ....
02/04/2004 06:03:45 PM · #28
Ditto that, Generall. :)


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