Digital Matt
alter ego: Analog Matt
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2004
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- 5,358
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- Location
- Santa Barbara, CA
- Website
- www.mattperko.com
- Can others edit my Photos
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I personally would not really want to be a part of this conversation if this were my picture, and I received the kind of responses he has gotten. I think you as a mod team are to quick to defend the forum members responses, because you have a inherent prejudice to the photo. If your first thought is, "This picture is total crap. The photog obviously didn't put forth any effort, and it makes me angry because I put so much effort into my craft!", then you probably shouldn't comment, because you are unable to really look past your own prejudice.
My personal thought on this photo, and this "style" is that it walks a fine line between being really great, and very bad. Ernst Haas is an example of someone who was very successful with abstract, out of focus, motion blur photography. I'm sure his many of his contact sheets are full of exposures that "don't work". They should still be examined, and critiqued, in a positive fashion, to learn from. After all, we are all learning to hone our craft. This whole discussion, and the discussions on every one of the OP's photos are extremely negative from square one, yet the photo is blamed for it.
My personal thought on this photo, and this "style" is that it walks a fine line between being really great, and very bad. Ernst Haas is an example of someone who was very successful with abstract, out of focus, motion blur photography. I'm sure his many of his contact sheets are full of exposures that "don't work". They should still be examined, and critiqued, in a positive fashion, to learn from. After all, we are all learning to hone our craft. This whole discussion, and the discussions on every one of the OP's photos are extremely negative from square one, yet the photo is blamed for it.