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TLD: One of our camera club members teaches a SeniorNet class, and she told her group about using Picasa to organize their pictures. The next week one of the old ladies came in livid because Picasa had put pornographic pictures on her computer. After a stunned silence, my friend asked if she was the only person who used the computer... That lady's husband had some explaining to do when she got home!
I found the problem with my inappropriate uploads. It was a flickr app I'd recently installed, and the default settings are to upload and share _everything_. That tells you something about how folk use their pictures nowadays.
There is a photographer's adage:
A good photographer takes a hundred pictures and keeps ten.
A great photographer takes a hundred pictures and keeps one.
Apparently this applies very much to Andis Apse who ruthlessly culls out his second rate images. Then he leaves them a few weeks, and goes through and culls out some more.
Probably the best speaker I've encountered at photographic conventions, is British landscape photographer Charlie Waite. He said several things that have stayed with me and I try to adhere to, but he also told us about a meeting he had with a Brit wedding photographer. Charlie asked the guy 'how many pictures he'd taken that he was _really_ happy with?'. 'About ten thousand' came the reply. Either that person was the greatest undiscovered talent ever, or his standards were very low.
If you only show people your best pictures, you can trick them into thinking you are better than you really are. BTW I have maybe six images that I am really happy with out of the many thousands taken.
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph; Only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
Susan Sontag: On Photography: The heroism of Vision (1977)
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TLD: Max makes some highly relevant points, but mostly on the worth of any particular image to the photographer. Don Pittham gave an excellent talk at the 2014 PSNZ National here in Marlborough. He spoke about precious photographs with memories of departed loved ones which, while being devoid of artistic merit, are still possibly the most precious images to the people concerned. I expect we all have pictures like that.
As regards judging, I have often heard that the memories and emotions an image brings back to the person who took the picture, are 'usually' irrelevant from a competition POV, because the judge was not there, and knows nothing of the context.
Then there those interesting stories about how subtle cropping hugely changed the impact of an image, like the famous napalm girl picture. The world saw the cropped version, but look how different the uncropped version is. That soldier casually sorting out his cigarette (if that's what he is doing) changes the impact completely.
I have not decided what to do about my stolen images. I'll contact the winery because that is blatant, but as for the rest...
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joker97: where do you show off you photos?
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