Jack Douglas said:
Just curious, is this your normal interpersonal mode of communication? Personally, I think both respectful assertions and respectful replies are more effective, but to each his own.
This whole discussion summarizes why I never post to or comment on galleries on any internet forum.
There are millions of armchair critics out there who love to nitpick other people's photos. Yet, most of these people never put their own photos out there. In this particular case, the nitpickers are going after a guy who didn't even post these pictures himself, never invited criticism and is clearly both financially and professionally successful (plus being an "Explorer of Light" which is a pretty decent indication he knows a little something about what he is doing).
There are images that might not be perfectly tack sharp, but they are excellent photos anyway and some capture a spontaneous moment and mood that far outstrips the importance of whether or not you can count every individual eyelash on the person's eyelid.
I think one person on this forum used to have a saying in their tagline that "sharpness isn't everything." That's absolutely true.
There aren't a lot of super-sharp images in Robert Frank's
The Americans, yet that didn't keep him from being the single-most influential photographer of the second half of the 20th century. I was just flipping through a Edward Weston monograph. There isn't a single picture in there that would have been made any better by being a little sharper.
I've noticed that the people on this forum who have the most impressive portfolios never criticize other people's work.
