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- ScooterRash
"There is no theme" more like "Bad photographic cliches taken poorly does not make you an artist"
Come on people, just because you have a digial camera doesn't mean that you are a good photographer capable of capturing good compelling images. A chimp can grab a piece of vine charcoal and a piece of paper, but it doesn't make him Renoir.
- unknown0
agreed, so much shit photography around.
with a Digi camera you can take 100's of photos... your bound to get a good few.
the best ameteur photographer here in my oppinion is Jevad
great photos.
- Gorbie0
Jesus dude,
That's like slapping a kid for playing with lego's and telling him he's not a stuctural engineer.
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- jox0
absolutely, Jevad's photos rawk!
- unfittoprint0
any link to his photos?
- jox0
there's lots on his websight
- ScooterRash0
I strongly feel that if you throw something up for public consumption that it should be worthy of showing off, and also subject rigorous critique. This idea that because you have some jaunty digital camera all of your images will be compelling and unique, is absurd. These images should be throwaways. Things you shoot to get to the sublime image on the roll.
A fundamental lesson of photography is that there is no way to get a perfect image without burning through a bunch of shots...people tend to forget that.
Don’t show us crap.
- ScooterRash0
And yeah, Jevad's work is good. Sorry to not address that in the previous post.
- kodap0
just to keep a track on the thread
http://www.silmonia.com/site/ind…
you guys never remember of posting the url.
- Gorbie0
In that case Scooter, the images on your site are absolute shit. The have no point, lack any sign of composition, and the kind of photos I keep in a shoe box in my closet.
I wouldn't have normally said that, I'm just playing by your rules.
- ScooterRash0
Exactly my point Gorbie. The point here is I didn’t throw my site up for critique, and the images on my index page are crap-ass photos from my jaunty camera phone, which I know is a truly bad camera. In fact, that was the whole aesthetic for that page. I didn’t canonize my page as a indication of my work and ability, just as a reflection of the junk that gets shot on a typical camera phone.
There are MANY people that post on this site that have the same amount of crap as everyone else. I am no different in the case of my homepage goes, but here again, unlike others, I didn’t post mine under the guise of it being my finest work, in fact, its quite the opposite, on purpose. If you’re going to step to me, back it up.
- Gorbie0
10 new photos
todays update, Usa section.silmonia
(sep 25 03)Where do you get all that from? Person's just sharing some picutres. Fucking chill out. They aren't selling themselves at all. And they certainly didn't ask for your opinion.
On a side note "canonize" was a great pun!