Last Chance

Alex_B · Oct 15, 2007

I read the following:

"An amazing picture of Salad. A great shot slightly blurred. Overall perfect!"

If you tell us the image is overall perfect, this is quite a strong statement.

I never ever took a single picture in my life, which I myself consider close to perfect. And I have been taking pictures for a long time by now. So I guess my abilities of a photographer are by far inferior to yours, and hence I have no right to comment on your great work.

Hill202 · Oct 15, 2007

Perhaps the OP does not have a clear understanding on how to focus. In reading this post, made by the OP, he seems to be confused on the subject of focusing.

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1002218#post1002218

Mike_E · Oct 15, 2007

Ummmm, perfect for what?

Sorry, perhaps you would like to start over?

(Ghastly) Krueger · Oct 15, 2007

I may be playing devil's advocate here, but the OP never stated the pic was "perfect". He/She said "amazing" and "look really good". So he/she is givng him/her self a pat on the back. So? I don't think it's enough to disqualify him of some feedback.

And the original sentence says "it is the last chance for me to show you"... not something like "it is the last chance for you to look at". Just my $2.00. And that's pesos to you.

WolfSpring · Oct 15, 2007

Hill202 said:
Perhaps the OP does not have a clear understanding on how to focus. In reading this post, made by the OP, he seems to be confused on the subject of focusing.

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1002218#post1002218

Looking at the pictures on his site I noticed that a lot of them were date stamped and the date stamp looked somewhat blurred, I'm wondering if they were scanned and he is trying to fix them after they are scanned?

JHF Photography · Oct 15, 2007

(Ghastly) Krueger said:
I may be playing devil's advocate here, but the OP never stated the pic was "perfect".

I have to disagree with you on this one. The link to the actual picture has the following caption beneath the shot (which was also quoted by Alex B):

"An amazing picture of Salad. A great shot slightly blurred. Overall perfect!"

NateS · Oct 15, 2007

The sad part is that he did the blur on purpose. So regardless, one of the main things that ruins the picture was done on purpose. I don't understand why you would purposely blur or shoot out of focus on a picture.

cmyk · Oct 16, 2007

In defence of snapshot: Nan Goldin, etc..

Chris of Arabia · Oct 16, 2007

So if we were to summarise then:

Large parts of the image are out of focus
It is over-exposed
The reasoning behind the blurred effect (whether intentional or not) is not fully understood
The subject matter is of limited appeal
gladounian likes the end result, but it doesn't have universal appeal
The captioning of the image has drawn more debate than the image itself

Does that just about cover it?

LaFoto · Oct 16, 2007

Yes, Chris. Thanks for the summary.
And gladounian may be happy I gave his thread such a boost start on here, never have my threads attracted so many people and got so many comments!

gladounian · Oct 16, 2007

Ok this is over. srry i caused so much contoroversy. I'm posting a new thread where I THINK that the picture is good. <<THATS MY OPINION. anyway./...ok

seafoxfla · Oct 16, 2007

Chris of Arabia said:
So if we were to summarise then:

Large parts of the image are out of focus

It is over-exposed

The reasoning behind the blurred effect (whether intentional or not) is not fully understood

The subject matter is of limited appeal

gladounian likes the end result, but it doesn't have universal appeal

The captioning of the image has drawn more debate than the image itself

Does that just about cover it?

Ditto, agree 100%.

(Ghastly) Krueger · Oct 16, 2007

JHF Photography said:
I have to disagree with you on this one. The link to the actual picture has the following caption beneath the shot (which was also quoted by Alex B):

"An amazing picture of Salad. A great shot slightly blurred. Overall perfect!"

I stand corrected

JIP · Oct 16, 2007

Do you really want to encourage this guy who obviously posted a silly picture to see how far the discussion would go before someone called it for what it was??

(Ghastly) Krueger · Oct 16, 2007

JIP said:
Do you really want to encourage this guy who obviously posted a silly picture to see how far the discussion would go before someone called it for what it was??

No, but I wouldn't want to shoo yet another member away, just because he holds in high regard a picture which is, in other's eyes, sub par.

Since I don't have the omniscience to determine someone's intentions from a couple of lines, I thought some slack could be cut.