Petraio Prime
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What he did was easy. What I do is much harder.
But even if this were true (which it isn't) what difference does it make?
No one... random member of the public or veteran photographer is going to praise you on the difficulty of your image. Photography is a visual art often involving purely aesthetics, this is what matters when your images are viewed. Unless of course they fit a purpose, which yours do, to capture a rugby game, meaning to try and match it against an image which is more concerned with other things is futile.
I don't think you are quite appreciating landscape photography in the same way others do. I would consider it to be my main focus in my photography hobby, therefore when I see (maybe what you don't see) something about a landscape shot I really like, it connects with me.
If this doesn't happen to you, then fine. But you can't go ridiculing someone else's experience, you just have to deal with it.
You prefer Culture Club to Eric Clapton?, fine... I for one don't and am more likely to leave the room if someone starts blasting out 'Do you really want to hurt me'.
What difference does it make? A lot! There is actually some compositional merit in the one shot....
http://www.photographyboard.net/rugby-game-1087.html
Study it carefully. Note the lower left to upper right diagonal 'movement'. (Note the arms and the ball in lower left, and arms in the faces of the gentlemen in the upper right.)
All of the raving about landscapes amuses me.
No, I don't appreciate 'landscape photography'. It's banal and appeals to bourgeois tastes. It is a remnant of Romanticism, which I repudiate. You probably have no idea what I'm talking about. Oh well...
http://www.redbeansoup.net/nortonsimon/roman2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_art
You misread the quote. Someone in Culture Club said if he went to someone's house and saw an Eric Clapton record he would leave. When people start blathering on about landscape work or Ansel Adams to me, I leave...
I much prefer Salgado...
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