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Response to The Purpose of Critiques

from shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com)
I think the only point I was trying to make was that sometimes it's hard to tell whether someone is being personal or professional in writing, i.e., without the aid of a tone. With my own workk, as hard as it may feel sometimes to be critiqued negatively, I know it's necessary, and after I get over the initial 'hurt', such remarks are very helpful. But that's MY issue, and as everyone here knows, I really want to do photography professionally, whereas a lot of people who post critiques are not so..."serious"?

As for the bird shit, that image has a number of contrasting abstract areas which really bother me as well. But with the print itself it seems easier to fool myself that those areas are irrelavent since the girl and the cat look very pleasing (and enough with that girl, already! she is really starting to bore the crap out of me...time to find a new girl...cutesy cheeks or not). Definitely not a 'real' portfolio shot, and it won't be on my new site when it finally gets up...already nixed it from the folder.

and ps, tom et al, you guys really nailed the website thing. I've put over 150 hours into the new one and I'm prob'ly barely half done. It is EXTREMELY AMAZING to me, to realize how much energy it takes a simply human being FOCUS on something long enough to make it a 'focused' reality...but that's another story. As the song goes (Yep, Mt. Peart), "Where would you rather be?--Anywhere, anywhere but here. / When will the time be right?--Anytime but now..."...

See y'all. shawn

(posted 8796 days ago)

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