ceeboy14
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This is likely a subject which has been beaten into submission more than one time on this forum, but being relatively new to your merry little band of photographers, I want to address non-comments.
I call these adjective and adverbs non comments because they do nothing to assist any photographer at any stage of growth - or even just stability: Wow, superb!!! Great!!! Spectacular!!! Awesome!!! Stupendous!!! and the list goes on. For me, it is especially annoying to see these non-comments made in conjunction with a photograph which clearly isn't any of the previous modifiers. Telling a photographer their shot is spectacular when it is over or underexposed, the color balance is more than marginally off or the horizon line is making all the water run downhill sends a message to said photogrpaher, "hey, keep churning out badly exposed, composed, etc. shots because I love them."
It is a simple fix. If you are going to use said modifiers, clarify as to how the shot is great, stupendous or out of this world. If you like the shot but realize there is something about it that is bothersome but not sure what it is, or how to express it properly, defer or comment with another clarifier such as, "I like the concept of your shot, the setting and how it sits with me emotionally (it makes me sad, happy, glad, wanton) etc., but I must defer to those with more expertise as to the compositional, color, etc.." Even better, take a stab at making a helpful critique. What do you like, why, what don't you like, why, what might the artist do to improve the shot and why, or I like this because...Being right isn't the end solution. Being truthful and helpful helps to guide the photographer on to better images.
I am certainly no expert when it comes to what makes the best of anything in a shot and while I may get dissenting arguments to my critiques, edits or otherwise, I am always making them with the best in mind for the person I am critiquing. In rare instances one might quote me as saying awesome or the like but if I am saying such, it is because the artist has left little or nothing to dislike.
'Nuff said on my part, good, bad or indifferent.
I call these adjective and adverbs non comments because they do nothing to assist any photographer at any stage of growth - or even just stability: Wow, superb!!! Great!!! Spectacular!!! Awesome!!! Stupendous!!! and the list goes on. For me, it is especially annoying to see these non-comments made in conjunction with a photograph which clearly isn't any of the previous modifiers. Telling a photographer their shot is spectacular when it is over or underexposed, the color balance is more than marginally off or the horizon line is making all the water run downhill sends a message to said photogrpaher, "hey, keep churning out badly exposed, composed, etc. shots because I love them."
It is a simple fix. If you are going to use said modifiers, clarify as to how the shot is great, stupendous or out of this world. If you like the shot but realize there is something about it that is bothersome but not sure what it is, or how to express it properly, defer or comment with another clarifier such as, "I like the concept of your shot, the setting and how it sits with me emotionally (it makes me sad, happy, glad, wanton) etc., but I must defer to those with more expertise as to the compositional, color, etc.." Even better, take a stab at making a helpful critique. What do you like, why, what don't you like, why, what might the artist do to improve the shot and why, or I like this because...Being right isn't the end solution. Being truthful and helpful helps to guide the photographer on to better images.
I am certainly no expert when it comes to what makes the best of anything in a shot and while I may get dissenting arguments to my critiques, edits or otherwise, I am always making them with the best in mind for the person I am critiquing. In rare instances one might quote me as saying awesome or the like but if I am saying such, it is because the artist has left little or nothing to dislike.
'Nuff said on my part, good, bad or indifferent.