As Bob quipped, ". . . gimmick . . ."
Chris
On 15 Oct 13, at 17:52, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Here's how a NG photographer does a Scottish derelict boat.
>> He should have stuck with his Nikon.
>
> Thank you for saying what I was thinking.
>
> First of all, they are technically decent snapshots, but they
> certainly aren't anything I'm going to go out of my way to look at. It
> looks like a "proof of concept" project more than anything serious.
>
> Reminds me of the photographer up in Minnesota who did the one picture
> a day for a month thing and had it published in NG. Of the 30
> pictures, there were five which were worthy, but the rest were repeats
> or struggles or formula pictures.
>
> I'm REALLY sensitive to the formula pictures. For every scene, take a
> wide shot, a mid shot and a close shot, then two more with something
> framing the subject and another with some trick applied. Yawn.
>
> Come on, guy. Show me something I ain't seen before! Or something I
> ain't done before!
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