Don't post pictures of your own kids

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Boom don't you see that your point is only going to apply to some people (one of which is yourself) and that as a general point of advice it does not work for everyone?
As has been said comment about exposure and such are photographic comments not comments on the model itself (be it child - wife - that guy on the corner of the street).

And some of us get very attached to our rocks and moths and stuffs!

 

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I've decided that you are an idiot.

There. I said it.

 

[Canon AE-1]

Live Long and Critique! (something not of a child)

 

[willis_927]

Boom, as a few of us have already said, its not about critiquing the kid, its about critiquing the overall picture. Your right, people do tend to think they took a picture of there own kid (or anything that means something to them) that is better than it is. I do it all the time, and I am sure most people do, or have. So they put it on a website like this, so other people and critique the picture (not the kid), and you can make it better. Plain and simple.

 

[vtf]

Boom don't you see that your point is only going to apply to some people (one of which is yourself) and that as a general point of advice it does not work for everyone?
As has been said comment about exposure and such are photographic comments not comments on the model itself (be it child - wife - that guy on the corner of the street).

And some of us get very attached to our rocks and moths and stuffs!

I like my moths

 

[OrionsByte]

It sure as hell does.

Your world revolves around your kid.

Ummmm, yeah. That's my point. I would hope that every parent's world revolves around their children.... So as a parent, why would you use that as a point of critique? What makes sense about taking the one very thing that is in the center of your Universe and saying "Hey everyone.... This means the world to me, tear it apart".

Pick a rock, pick a tree, take a picture of your neighbor's kid and post it, but don't post pictures of your own children. Even if you can handle it, you aren't going to get much honest critique out of it. If you really want to improve, you want honest feed back, and you want something that will be simple for you to take criticism on then pick a subject that the world dosen't revolve around. I don't see why that is so wrong.

When I post pictures of my daughter for C&C, I'm by no means saying, "here's my daughter, pick her apart." I'm saying, "here's a photograph of my daughter, please pick the photograph apart."

If someone replies to that photo and says, "It's not very good. You cut off the foot, you should have used a reflector to bounce some light back on to her face, and she's got what looks like some food on her cheek," I have two options:

1. Consider framing the shot better next time, investing in a reflector, and wiping her face before my next attempt.
2. Taking it all personally and assuming people are being harsh because they think my kid is ugly.

So which of those two is the most sensible thing for me to do? There's nothing and I mean nothing that anyone could ever say that would make me think my child is any less beautiful than she is to me, or make me love her any less than I do. My photography though? It needs work. Please, tear it apart.

 

[Boomn4x4]

Boom don't you see that your point is only going to apply to some people

I certainly see that. If this were an advance photography forum, I wouldn't expect any of this to apply to anyone.

 

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Boom don't you see that your point is only going to apply to some people (one of which is yourself) and that as a general point of advice it does not work for everyone?
As has been said comment about exposure and such are photographic comments not comments on the model itself (be it child - wife - that guy on the corner of the street).

And some of us get very attached to our rocks and moths and stuffs!

I like my moths

Ahh a fellow moth fan :mrgreen:

 

[AprilEye]

Okay, here is my rant for the day.

Please, don't post pictures of your pets for C&C. They are never good, and I feel really bad critiquing them.

ah now Rez... you did like my cat picture... i remember

 

[Derosa]

Boom don't you see that your point is only going to apply to some people

I certainly see that. If this were an advance photography forum, I wouldn't expect any of this to apply to anyone.

Huh???

 

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Boom don't you see that your point is only going to apply to some people

I certainly see that. If this were an advance photography forum, I wouldn't expect any of this to apply to anyone.

You mean advanced photographers don't love their childen?
One does not simply wake up advanced - one has to work their way toward that point and part of that path (for many, but not all) is learning to take critical comments of their photographs - no matter the subject content.

 

[o hey tyler]

ITT: One person who strongly believes something idiotic; everyone else disagrees with him disrespectfully.

 

[Light Artisan]

HANNURKEE!!!

 

[Boomn4x4]

When I post pictures of my daughter for C&C, I'm by no means saying, "here's my daughter, pick her apart." I'm saying, "here's a photograph of my daughter, please pick the photograph apart."


If someone replies to that photo and says, "It's not very good. You cut off the foot, you should have used a reflector to bounce some light back on to her face, and she's got what looks like some food on her cheek," I have two options:

1. Consider framing the shot better next time, investing in a reflector, and wiping her face before my next attempt.
2. Taking it all personally and assuming people are being harsh because they think my kid is ugly.

So which of those two is the most sensible thing for me to do? There's nothing and I mean nothing that anyone could ever say that would make me think my child is any less beautiful than she is to me, or make me love her any less than I do. My photography though? It needs work. Please, tear it apart.

Obvioulsy, the first is the only sensible thing to do. But why would you have posted a picture like that in the first place? Aren't those critiques you SHOULD have seen on your own? Isn't it safe to say that some of those mistakes wouldn't have been made if you weren't so smittin on how cute your child was?

 

[Boomn4x4]

Boom don't you see that your point is only going to apply to some people

I certainly see that. If this were an advance photography forum, I wouldn't expect any of this to apply to anyone.

You mean advanced photographers don't love their childen?
One does not simply wake up advanced - one has to work their way toward that point and part of that path (for many, but not all) is learning to take critical comments of their photographs - no matter the subject content.

I guess I worded that pretty bad....sorry. No, that isn't what I meant at all. What I meant is that more advanced photographers have enough experience that the basic things such as composition, white balance, focus, dof, all the things that seem to be what all of the "My Daughter - C&C" threads seem to be plagued by.