HDR Sucks!!!

[skieur]

A "good" photograph is obviously pretty hard to define, but they are pretty easy to call out when you see them.

Not really, photographic associations define it as representing the best in technique or the technical side as a means of creating the best in the artistic side to create visual impact and with it possibly communicate an idea, concept, emotion, humour, feeling, etc. to the viewer.

The best photographic art is that which is both technically excellent and that which encompasses the personality, style, thoughts, and feelings or the artist through his/her choice of subject and photographic technique used in its portrayal. Technique plus composition to put it another way.

Not hard to define at all.

skieur

 

[manaheim]

Well... that's still pretty vague. I completely agree, and I considered typing up something similar to that, but it's not a definition one can just run out and copy and *whamo! art!*