Out of Focus & Off Topic MkIII...

magicbastarder · 30-01-2012 3:14pm

to be fair though, if i wanted some cover artwork for a reissue of a whitesnake album, i now know exactly where to go.

Snowie · 30-01-2012 10:53pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

it's a blog, for god's sake. not a portfolio.
plus, some of the links you provided there link to work which is simply ****ing *hideous*. and they *are* portfolio sites.

Weather you find something hideous is entirely up to you Im not going to argue that point:)...I will how ever argue the point that a blog is as important as your, portfolio website.

If you've got 20 years, experience in a field and you've written 5 books. which Mr Kirk has. My expectations maybe different to yours but there first things i look at is weather the shot is in focus... and weather a pictures horizons are straight. Pictures should also be correctly cropped Imo.. All Im saying to me it doesn't show pride with in his work even if it its for self indulgent use, the one factor should remain the same... which is the point I'm trying to get at

DaireQuinlan · 31-01-2012 10:26am

Snowie wrote: »

Weather you find something hideous is entirely up to you Im not going to argue that point:)...I will how ever argue the point that a blog is as important as your, portfolio website.

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My expectations maybe different to yours but there first things i look at is weather the shot is in focus... and weather a pictures horizons are straight. Pictures should also be correctly cropped Imo..
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I suspect you should examine the role of subjectivity in appraising photographs. Also, this.

magicbastarder · 31-01-2012 10:53am

Snowie wrote: »

I will how ever argue the point that a blog is as important as your, portfolio website.

looks like we can agree to disagree so.

plus, his talent (or lack thereof) has absolutely no bearing on whether his piece is correct. how about you comment on his piece, rather than on a single one of his photos?
do you have to be an award winning movie director to pass an opinion on a movie?

Snowie · 31-01-2012 3:36pm

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

I suspect you should examine the role of subjectivity in appraising photographs. Also, this.

ahh here if you've got to resort to that..... maybe some for sight first....

magicbastarder wrote: »

looks like we can agree to disagree so.

plus, his talent (or lack thereof) has absolutely no bearing on whether his piece is correct. how about you comment on his piece, rather than on a single one of his photos?
do you have to be an award winning movie director to pass an opinion on a movie?

well the thing is most good photographer have a bog and a website, which do you think get more traffic? I know most good photographers say there blog, people link them on face book, websites are a thing of the past between social networking and a good, blog you can make good money as photographer.. and do it for free

As for kirk you disagree for your reasons if, Im going to read a blog or a post that self proclaimed pro has written .. The first thing I do is look at his work, because that gives me a foundation and ability to judge were this guy is coming from. Now this is an important thing you can't just fan boy some one simply because of what they say there ability to do the job is just as important.. I can't see why your flaming me when its a fair point...

Diabhal_Glas · 01-02-2012 12:17am

http://imgur.com/jPu9a

Borderfox · 01-02-2012 4:30am

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Kirk Tuck's outlook on the photography industry. Grim.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheVisualScienceLab/~3/eemXrpu6wnQ/some-predictions-about-future-of.html

Jaysus Daire, I'm sorry I followed that link. A larger depression ahead

But with reinvention at the core of a phoenix

magicbastarder · 01-02-2012 11:07am

it's always easy to predict the death of something. if you're wrong, everybody forgets. if you're right, you're a guru.
i remember reading articles like that about the death of music years ago.

Ricky91t · 04-02-2012 12:19pm

Oh dear, I really want to get out with the camera again, My Pix.ie has only one photo for this year

Effects · 05-02-2012 3:56pm

uk braced for mediocre weather photography

magicbastarder · 05-02-2012 7:53pm

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/uk-braced-for-mediocre-weather-photography-201202014840/

Effects · 05-02-2012 10:54pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/uk-braced-for-mediocre-weather-photography-201202014840/

See above

magicbastarder · 05-02-2012 11:09pm

ah jaysus.

dinneenp · 06-02-2012 3:11am

magicbastarder wrote: »

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/uk-braced-for-mediocre-weather-photography-201202014840/

How do you like them apples? (The Big Picture extreme cold photos)

magicbastarder · 06-02-2012 11:05am

is it just me, or is boston.com usually immensely slow to load?

dinneenp · 07-02-2012 2:51pm

I know a lot of people provoke the police but, man are there some beatings on this......

ene · 07-02-2012 3:00pm

thats shocking!!

Raditub · 07-02-2012 3:18pm

my god....unbelievable...some violence!!!

BlastedGlute · 07-02-2012 3:22pm

thats some brutal stuff. You know what would really make these guys think, a speedlight on continuous flashes while their beating someone down. Whatever it is about that flash, it triggers something in people. **FLASH FLASH FLASH** I guarantee they'd suddenly become very interested in who was firing that speedlite!

Diabhal_Glas · 07-02-2012 7:56pm

BlastedGlute wrote: »

thats some brutal stuff. You know what would really make these guys think, a speedlight on continuous flashes while their beating someone down. Whatever it is about that flash, it triggers something in people. **FLASH FLASH FLASH** I guarantee they'd suddenly become very interested in who was firing that speedlite!

Being Cops form the USA I'm sure they would snap the camera off of you and give you a bit of a beating too. They take no sh!te over there.

ScumLord · 07-02-2012 8:52pm

Diabhal_Glas wrote: »

Being Cops form the USA I'm sure they would snap the camera off of you and give you a bit of a beating too. They take no sh!te over there.

While Irish guards are nowhere near as brutal as US cops over small things, they have been known to give some serious beatings to people. To be fair some of the stories I've heard from people that got beatings they where doing things where most people would say they deserved the beating but a police force should be above that kind of behaviour.

But the fact is the way things are with police forces it is a case of them against everyone else, we might see a beating as brutal but they're dealing with horrible people on a daily basis and if you learn your better off imposing your superiority over someone else that you know will turn nasty with a bit of violence it's what your going to do. It's basic animal behaviour and reactions to tense situations and as much as people like to think we're not animals we clearly are.