You need to study the compositional aspects of many of those pictures. Sometime it takes more than a quick glance. What looks like a snapshot may only look like that because you don't know what work went into the composition.
Anybody can take a picture of a leaf laying on a dirty sidewalk also. There's millions of leaves laying on dirty sidewalks all over the USA and other parts of the world. Taking a picture of one of them does not make it art. The fact is people like beautiful photographs of beautiful places because beauty is almost universally appreciated. Tom C. >From: Rebekah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Pentax Gallery >Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:25:33 -0400 > >A lot of the pictures on there seem like crisp snapshots of pretty >things rather than good photographs. Anyone can take a well focused >picture of something pretty, but is it really worthy? I don't know. >Perhaps we're just back to the "art" discussion. > >rg2 > > >On 9/13/07, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Welcome to the Camera Club, Frank. If your photos don't look like >everyone else's photos you do not know how to take pictures... > > > > > > frank theriault wrote: > > > To those who've complained that not all of your photos have been > > > accepted in the Pentax Gallery, quit yer bitchin'! > > > > > > Not one of mine has been accepted so far. > > > > > > Not a single one. > > > > > > I've still got about 6 pending, but 6 have been rejected outright. > > > Street shots, still lifes, sports shots (Corner Kick, fer gawd's sake > > > - and if I'm allowed a moment of immodesty, that was a muther of a > > > photo!), portraits. None of it "good enough". > > > > > > I no longer hold great hope for my participation in this venture. > > > > > > I kind of feel like not submitting any more. If the 6 that I have > > > pending are rejected, I guess I'll know that I don't measure up to > > > their standards (whatever they may be), and find another place to show > > > my piccies... > > > > > > cheers, > > > frank > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > >-- >"the subject of a photograph is far less important than its composition" > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
