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Pete_R

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Great Photographers on the Internet, Part II (by way of flickr)
« on: November 28, 2009, 11:08:01 PM »
and courtesy of TOP.

I thought this was funny.

P.S. Here's part I.
« Last Edit: November 28, 2009, 11:19:06 PM by Peter R »
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Re: Great Photographers on the Internet, Part II (by way of flickr)
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2009, 01:49:57 AM »
all very amusing. i love when i get a critique that i didn't ask for on flickr, and it's usually something like suggested crops via the note tool, or something about the color. or my favorite "great shot but not sure why you waste your time using polaroid film' or someone complaining about the cheap cameras, etc.

one dumb comment i see often is "great treatment". suggesting what? that i manipulated my shot to obtain the look?
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Re: Great Photographers on the Internet, Part II (by way of flickr)
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2009, 11:09:46 AM »
Very good, very cringe worthy!

Speaking of critique, this is very funny, worth a look...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRRkbV3392M

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Re: Great Photographers on the Internet, Part II (by way of flickr)
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2009, 07:18:23 PM »
one dumb comment i see often is "great treatment". suggesting what? that i manipulated my shot to obtain the look?

I get that all the time too!  *sigh*

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Re: Great Photographers on the Internet, Part II (by way of flickr)
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2009, 10:11:20 PM »
I love this.

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Re: Great Photographers on the Internet, Part II (by way of flickr)
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2009, 03:13:02 PM »
Moominsean & HolgaJen - ditto!

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Re: Great Photographers on the Internet, Part II (by way of flickr)
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2009, 12:55:14 AM »
Great tones or lovely tones - that's what I get.  What the heck does that mean?  I guess anything with great tones is good. Composition, huh? Doesn't matter. You just gotta have the tones!

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Re: Great Photographers on the Internet, Part II (by way of flickr)
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2009, 03:53:27 PM »
You just gotta have the tones!
Yep! 'cause a toneless picture can be so boring to look at... (all black or all white prints are so disappointing ;) )
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Re: Great Photographers on the Internet, Part II (by way of flickr)
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2009, 01:28:32 AM »
Washing my negative in cold tea, I was asked once where I downloaded the 'Tea Wash' plug-in. I had this photograph banned from TrekEarth because of too much post camera processing. Fools.



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Re: Great Photographers on the Internet, Part II (by way of flickr)
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2009, 04:18:51 PM »
Like I once heard:
If you can see the retouching job, it means someone doctored it. If you can't see the retouching job, it means the guy who doctored it was really good...

Sounds like half the population of the globe isn't aware of that...
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