ChroniC, do you have any examples of your work available to view? I've seen you make posts similar to this a few times, yet have never seen anything of your own. Please note I'm not trying to make a point or pick a fight here, I just find it hard to know how to respond to posts like yours without some background on what makes you so quick to disregard other's viewpoints.
Having said that I do agree with some of what you say, but only to a point.
I dont post for my own reasons, my work isnt what you'd call orthodox, and i dont feel it would be understood. It requires folders of background research to fully appreciate because its not designed to be just posted on a forum, it designed to get me firsts
But of course the fundementals still apply, i work a lot in the philosphy of art too, il give you 2 photos so as to explain myself. I dont have a massive catalogue as i work mostly in with my slr, or medium format, only just got a 400d recently.
I dont disregard viewpoints, dont get me wrong. However i just feel comments made on here are one sided, towards the technical, not the philosophical. I appreciate what a picture means as much as how it looks, and the technical side once mastered needs to be reinforced by the representation side, its better to start thinking like this from the beginning.
Photo taken in paris, to you a standard picture of a street seller. In actual fact it represents the works of a man named Eugene Atget.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=eugene atget&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
A few projects ago, i did a representational autobiography, using gregory crewdson, amongst others as influences. On the course i do, its not about what you take, its about why. Which is something i dont expect the forum to ask.
Using Messiah as an example, of how i work.
I love his macro shots, everyone does there good. Technically perfect, ok! But one day he put up a shot of a field of poppies. It was dark moody, and slightly under exposed. Everyone said, its ok needs adjust etc etc, auto levels crew arrived etc etc.
I personally sat on the other side of hedge thinking it was much better than anything he'd posted before because unknowing or not, it worked. It worked because it looked like a field in europe, poppies growing near a path that any soldier could have walked down/died in, the moody sky working in its favour to represent the solem dark times. It made me feel something that was not initially apparent, the war.
It made me think.
Who are you to say an opinion is unfounded and wrong? An opinion is an opinon, no matter who it comes from. I very much welcome opinions and thoughts from any skill level/knowledge level on my photos. So by your reasoning, should only people who have been to uni and talked to 'clever' people comment on photos? Your really could do with crawling back down from that black hole of yours. (In my opinion of course)
Forgive me, its very hard for me to get my point across on paper without someone getting upset, because i always say exactly how i feel, and it doesnt translate well in text, i did say "what if". Anyone can have a comment/opinion, thats their given right, but what is an opinion worth if its based on nothing. Take for example that website which posted all those famous photos and they got slated for being rubbish, and need cropping etc etc, each in there own right being worth hundreds of thousands of pounds each.
I dont think you have to have gone to uni, but i will respect you more if you can present knowledge in a way that shows you have learnt more, and gained a greater understanding through research and personal gain, this will be present in your posting. I find that most post on this forum stop at a certain degree of this, which is why i dont post as like i said in my first post i would, and am as such getting slated for it. High horse, black hole, whatever.
