> William Robb wrote: > Is one allowed to say: "Is this the best you can do?" > Is one allowed to pass on his disappointment in the photographer? > > The Shel fiasco was more or less that. > It may have gotten jacked past that, but my recollection is that it > started > out pretty much that way.
Yes Bill, in certain circumstances I think you are. Regarding Shel's comments, there are two points to be made. Firstly, requests were made for critical comments and they were given. Such comments are the view of the person who made them only - and as I've discovered over the many years I've been around here, many people hold entirely different viewpoints of the same photograph. Like many things in life, when you actually get what you ask for, it isn't what you want, and from there it is but a couple of postings to killfile and nazi... Secondly, the photographs shown in PESOs etc are all to a very high standard in any respect. So many folk here contribute regularly or have had work accepted by magazines, papers, books or shown in galleries. Even a so called poor example submitted for comment really may only be a matter of a technical point. For my own part as a purely hobby photographer, once I had got over the shock of a poor critique, I found it very useful - so in my case, 'Is that the best you can do?' would have been fair comment. I also suspect that if he had spoken, rather than seeing the words on a screen, that some comments may well have been received differently, but such is the nature of e-mail. Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
