Why am I so Annoyed...can someone knock some sense into me? Please!

[Josh66]

I wonder how long it is till that photographer will post in this thread...? lol

(It will show up in his Flickr stats)

Does Flickr indicate if a sent message has be read or not?

No - messages on Flickr are pretty much just like e-mail. Once you send it, it's sent and you don't have any way of knowing when they actually read it.


It's not like a forum where you could PM somebody and then delete the message before they read it.

 

[mrpink]

Well, for how appalled people are, you have to give home credit for one thing.

He made you look.

Good or bad, you looked at more than a few of his images.

Good or bad...He. Made. You. Look.
:lmao:

A shot like this will make anyone look- 9 Months 257 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!





p!nK

 

[o hey tyler]

While I agree that this thread is probably in poor taste, I totally agree that the photographer is a blowhard.

Using High ISO (5600) outdoors at f/4.5 on the train tracks to sustain a 1/4000s shutter speed? WHY?

 

[SNBniko]

Did someone seriously tattle on the OP in this thread to the photographer? That's hilarious, and somewhere along the lines of primary school.

If the dude is smart, he'll find it anyways. Blatantly fanning the flames doesn't look good on anyone, including the OP.

 

[RauschPhotography]

:roll:

 

[SNBniko]

I'm just saying that I quit tattling when my mom spanked my sister and I both when on of us told on the other. haha

 

[mishele]

If people were bashing your work wouldn't you like to know so you could defend yourself? I would.....just sayin.

 

[SNBniko]

If I were confident in what I was doing, I wouldn't care. There's going to be haters no matter how good you are. I'm not sure this guy can defend some of the poses/lighting he used, basing that statement on past threads I've read. If this were a noob posting here, they would be crucified. I'm not trying to chide anyone, just saying how I feel about the situation. If you want him here or know him, go for it.

 

[mishele]

If anything we just invited him to a place where he can improve......:greenpbl:

 

[e.rose]

If this were a noob posting here, they would be crucified. I'm not trying to chide anyone, just saying how I feel about the situation. If you want him here or know him, go for it.

Except he's not a noob who posted his own work here. Someone else did...

He didn't come here asking for our critiques.

Maybe he will choose to NOW... and when HE posts his OWN work and links his OWN photos into HIS threads... then yeah... feel free to **** all over it, like we do to each other so that we can improve... but the difference is that he *didn't* do that.

He's not even a member here... at least I highly doubt that he is.

 

[Jarrod268]

Maybe we should invite Sonya Lynn from facebook here to defend herself too. If this thread is in poor taste (a friend defending a friend basically) - then that thread posting links to Sonya Lynn's work is just as bad. Right? Shouldn't Sonya Lynn be emailed and given the right to stand up for herself?

 

[e.rose]

Maybe we should invite Sonya Lynn from facebook here to defend herself too. If this thread is in poor taste (a friend defending a friend basically) - then that thread posting links to Sonya Lynn's work is just as bad. Right? Shouldn't Sonya Lynn be emailed and given the right to stand up for herself?

Sure. Do it... who's stopping you?

 

[Jarrod268]

Not a soul - just trying to make a point. I could care less Just a lot of hypocrisy I think.

 

[SNBniko]

So we're not to post other people's work here, unless it's to praise them? (edit: and by post, I mean post a link to) I think it's easier to learn by ripping into crappy work than complimenting good work, simply because it's easier to see what went wrong, and where there could be improvement. In this case, posing and lighting. With good work, a lot of what makes it good is very subtle, and harder for beginners like me to see outright. It becomes clear to see after someone else mentions it, but if you plopped an awesome picture in front of me and asked me what makes it so awesome, I'd have trouble naming anything technical.

I guess my opinion is: you put it on the internet, you opened yourself up for criticism. If you don't like it, make your stuff private or take it down. Particularly the people who are trying to make a business of it... some people will like your work, others won't. If you can't handle the heat, and want it to be all sunshine and skittles, get out of the kitchen. (general 'you' here, of course)

If this guy comes to defend his work, I hope no one will candy coat their responses in light of this thread. He would get reality smacked if he just came here as a 'beginner trying to go pro,' that's for sure.

 

[o hey tyler]

Maybe we should invite Sonya Lynn from facebook here to defend herself too. If this thread is in poor taste (a friend defending a friend basically) - then that thread posting links to Sonya Lynn's work is just as bad. Right? Shouldn't Sonya Lynn be emailed and given the right to stand up for herself?

Sure, but it's not going to make her photographic works better, especially if they suck.

(Disclaimer: I'm saying this without having seen Sonya's work, or knowing who she is. But what I said would be true about anyone with crappy photos.)