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When everything is blurred you cannot convey
the motion of the bicyclist. On the other
hand, if the bicyclist is not the subject--
what was?
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I like very much this picture. I like the
atmosphere, the movement and the perspective.
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hard to tell at this size but is everything
meant to be moving in this shot, all seems
blurred
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Why is the staircase so "soft"?
Camera shake? Like the angle though.
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THATS SOOOOOO FUNNNNY!!!!!!!
How can you guys talk about photography if
YOU NO NOTHING ABOUT IT!?!?!?
DCP, Infinite_vest, AgataL, you have NO
idea how stupid you look now!
Thats F*#&#^%ing awesome!
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so small
so blurry
to better show a sense of movement
SOMETHING has to be in sharp focus
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@dalbergaria
I think you're funny
hahahahahahahha
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our master is "shaking in the
grave".
so shame on you 'deleteme ppl'..
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Deleteme pepole... YOU GUYS ARE NUTS!!!
PLEASE! Stop that...
"to better show a sense of movement
SOMETHING has to be in sharp focus" WHO
TOLD YOU THAT CAROL???
Someone should write a book about this...
Its unbelievable...
- voted as DELETE the Deleteme people!
ahahah
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please don't post to this pool if you can't
deal with criticism
read the front page of this pool
duh
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Im can deal with criticism...
But cant I criticise STUPID criticism?
Now you are not dealing very well with my
criticism... I guess.
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oh, hang on now I get it, it's not a problem
with the shot, it's our opinions which are
lacking, this photo is of such an
intrinsically high quality that there could
be no other explanation.
Dalbegaria - you seem very attached to this photo or
poster, but when it is submitted to a public
group for criticism, then, well you get what
you pay for. None of us claims to be an
expert but our opinions are valid here,
feel free to post a comment detailing why you like this shot...
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Nicely composed, but blurry
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This photo is pure art.
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infinite: Patient you need to be. And the
force with you will be!
hahahah
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This looks contrived, which is not a bad
thing. If this is a planned shot, it just
didn't come out right. If you can round up
Mario, I would do it again. This time put the
camera on a tripod and use the smallest
aperture possible to get the best DoF. What I
would hope for is that the railings are sharp
and that mario on the bike shows a blur. Must
have the foreground sharp, though. Without
that, the image will never fly.
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yeah and?
grey, blurry, small, odd crop
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I very much like the crop and all the wierd
angles in this, the patchwork of textures in
the street is great, I like the grey grainey
look it has but I'd like to see it much
bigger
Cant vote on this size
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Ha Ha, very funny ;-)
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Nice form, AR. You have fished out all the
reasons I dont come around hyeres any more.
How could I not save this!?!
I claim masterpiece!
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a lot of winking going on here... was this
shot by another André?
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perfect !
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Poddysat got the point!
Good job man!
;)
Lets go... No balls for the deleteme9 and
10?
:D
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Im almost crying. My poor digital
photography, adjusted with photoshop is
deceiving...
Nobody loves me...
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great catch!
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Ok, I'm not a photography expert.
Ok, I'm very into lomography.
Ok, I'm very very fan of colors.
But I just can't delete this photo, cause I
can see the beauty of an unsharp shot, the
movement of it and I'm able to rebuilt this
momment in my head.
So, just like paddysat said:
I claim masterpiece!
My whish is to save this photo, but I wont.
I want that you guys delete it, cause it
will just prove my theory: you guys know
nothing about good photoshography, you just
care for very regular photos. you are nuts
and patethics!
PS. Besides, I know a little bit of the
history of photography :)
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bit too blurred to be worth a save from me
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Banditrouxas!
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LOL
this is the day deleteme has entered the
history of photography as the worst (not in
terms of being mean, but in terms of being
mis-informed, mis-educated, un-cultured, and
all other things that can be summarized by
the word STUPID) critics this art form has
ever seen. you guys have just proved that all
your votes aren't worth the least of all
considerations. thinking that deleteme
criticism will improve the way we photograph
is BULLSHIT. it'll just turn us into
advertising/stock photographer wannabes,
gadget show-offs that only care for the
technicalities. you guys are full of
yourselves (in other words, full of shit!).
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Felmagalhães and Minitar:
As I said before: This photo is pure art.
Also is on the explorer page right now.
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thanks for all this fun, andré! i'd thought
about doing something like this before, but
didn't want to go through the hassle. it was
definetely worth it! made our monday a lot
more fun!
LOL
LOL
LOL
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lots of fun here! :)
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Brilliant. Well done.
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BigFrank... I agree with you in some points.
But what I hate here is that people dont
care about what they see but in how it was
made... And I dont care about the tech as I
care about the soul of an image.
Got it?
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I like the composition. I hate the blurry
biker. You may call the works of this
photographer "masterpiece," I
disagree.
I'd delete if it was still in play.
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Uma desgraça!!
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You were right with your first guess, Hashim.
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This is just too damned funny. Talk about
hoist on your own petard!
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soundtemplar [deleted] says:
yep they are morons over there sometimes
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RIP Henri
next time use a tripod
bahahahhaaa
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I like it - and forget the blurred, tripod
etc. comments. It's just very dynamic.
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It's just very awful
deleteme 11 through 28
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Laugh/pee pants, OMG some of the comments are
freakin' unbelievable!
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*sigh*
Let the idiots be
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if that guy had a seagull flying into his
head, and there were neon blurry lights all
over the place, with no sense of style or
composition at all - it would be 10 straight
saves
(check the safe ...)
this really shows how skill at composition
is easily overlooked and irrelevant
"technical" factors can over ride
appreciation of true art
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Cartier Bresson is the guy on the bike ?!
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As "amazing" as this is, I don't
really find it all that appealing. Besides,
technology has gotten better, the chance to
take perfect pictures is much better.
Heck, look at something completely
different than photography, video games.
Kids around the ages of 13-15 think that the
video games of the generation not even 10
years older than them are a joke and have
absolutely no quality, while the people of
the former generation could play pong for
hours and be completely content. Times
change.
Had Cartier-Bresson had the technology we
do now he would have probably taken a
completely different shot, especially knowing
the audience he was shooting for.
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I was the only one that said that this photo
is pure art. Im saved.
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Ha ha very funny,
I think deleteme has it's uses too though,
it's interesting to hear what people honestly
think of your stuff, even if you dont agree.
Who gives a toss whether you get into the
safe or not anyway?
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omgroflol. this is gold! I love it. (the
shot too, but mostly the bait)
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Wow!
Lol
Lol
Lol.
This one made my entire day:)
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perfect for:
www.flickr.com/groups/nouvellevague/
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kamoriaha: technology is not art. You could
have an amazing 1 Giga pixels camera and
still have mediocre photographs.
Another thing, a great photo is different
from a great subject. A sunshine shot with a
great background is something everyone can
take.
Make the difference is the key point.
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Damn shame I missed on deleting this, its a
blurry photo with limited tonal range that
thrives on the name of its photographer. The
day you save this just because of who took it
is the day you may as well throw out all your
critical faculties because your not using
them. Even the greatest artists made some
mistakes, the problem is folks treat it as
art just because of the name.
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Lol... congrats to André. Nice work.
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j s p [deleted] says:
André for president :-DDD
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HCB tripped on the stairway going down and
his 35mm leica went off. A totally
accidental shot, even in his own words. He
voted deleteme on his own photo - I consulted
with a spiritual medium. HCB said 'shame on
you Andre.' don't mock the dead.
Any artist can be a photographer, but not
all photographers are artist - not do they
claim to be - and anyone is entitled to their
own opinion.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - keep
voting your own opinion in DM!
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kamoriaha: That's a totally different
question. You can't step in the same river
twice. Truth is, this was a moment in time,
and HCB caught a decisive moment, as was his wont. The photo
should be appreciated on its own, for what it
is. I have always loved this photo as a
photo, technical aspects aside. Others may
not care for it, which is their prerogative.
I don't feel it's HCB's "best", but
I still like it.
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I am new to flickr and this is my first
comment. Your guys are hilarious. I was
browsing through the daily
"interesting" photos, and after
pages and pages of non-descript but
techinically perfect pictures, I saw this
one. "Wow, great capture!" It
looked familiar, so at first I thought
someone was trying to imitate HCB. I guess
the joke was me. But then when I read the
comments, now I know really the joke is on
you! Haha. Personally I love this image, one
of the best on Dec. 5 2005!
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When Cartier Bresson, Andre Kertesz, Robert
Frank and many other photographers advanced
the "snaphot aesthetic" they faced
the same criticism from the pictorial
photographers - junk photos, fuzzy, grainy,
poor composition, etc. Fast forward fifty
years and this photograph is criticized on
the same grounds. The scary thing is that
while Bresson's photographs maybe more than
60 years old to the amateur photography
savage trapped in the backwater of
pictorialism they still represent the
incomprehensible and the avant-garde.
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Jingles: Welcome to Flickr!
Makina: Perfect!!!
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Quote:
"Sharpness is a bourgeois
concept."
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
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"Deleteme" on technicality. Pfft!
This is a nice piece of "ART"!!!
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You are a genius!!! Thanks!
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I mean:
-personal opinion: this is a masterpiece:
mixing in a single moment the stillness of
the stair and the movement on the bike,
making a single vortex pushing down the man
is simply magnificent.
-common sense: maybe knowing a little of
history of photography would be of some help
in understanding pictures, and commenting
them (and getting to know this picture would
have needed really little knowledge)
-bs: saying that a masteriece is not such a
masterpiece after some time in art is
complete nonsense: this would say that the
colosseo, or the Nike of samotracia or the
spring of botticelli are not masterpieces
anymore just because today the instruments
are better...come on!!!
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I agree! Good job this exposes alot! Not to
get into the politics of the Deleteme group,
but it seems stacked against POSITIVE
comments in general.
I shamelessly here plug the
Positive / Negative Pool
if you want both comments please join and
check it out
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"But what I hate here is that people
dont care about what they see but in how it
was made... And I dont care about the tech as
I care about the soul of an image.
Got it?"
Then join a different group and quit your
bitchin
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I can't believe some of the comments I'm
reading here!
Photography is art. Art is expression. This
photo expresses a mood that very few
photographers can capture.
The photo is stronger BECAUSE of the slight
shake. I feel as though it's a still from a
film-where we are the eyes of the character.
Cartier Bresson was a unique talent, he was
a genius, and no one will ever take photos in
the same way-maybe equally great? but never
the same.
When you have a strong enough idea of what
you want to express-and enough talent to go
with it- then 'the look' to your photos will
be strong enough to be individual.
Any great painter has a unique, and very
recognisable 'look' to their respective
works. Think of Van Gogh, Gaugin or Piccaso.
So when I see comments from people that
have posted a thousand sunset shots! (wow
really unique!??) or manipulate their work
with filters and photoshop, and who's work is
so technically 'perfect' but who simply do
not even have enough talent to be original,
then I ask WHO WILL REMEMBER A PERFECT SHOT
SET UP IN A STUDIO OF A F*%^ING TOMATO IN 50
YEARS TIME?!!??
Delete the 'delete me' group. Unlike CB
they contribute nothing to photography,
culture or enlightenment in general.
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I didn't read the comments when I posted here
first, but aren't we all so extremely clever
and important?
"technology has gotten better, the
chance to take perfect pictures is much
better." LOL! Does that mean that
Shakespeare would write better stories just
because he now would own a computer instead
of ink and pen?
See, I have no clue about "good"
or "bad" photography, I have no
clue what is "right" or
"wrong".
That's why I so much enjoy this debate.
Thinking about it, for me two things are
relevant (as in most forms of communication
(and photography is a form of communication
too): What do I hear/see, what is the effect
on me? Did the picture evoke something, a
reaction, a question, a sentiment etc. And
secondly, even more interesting: what did the
person behind the camera see or say? Why
taking this picture? What was his/her
intention, feeling, reaction? What made this
shot special for him/her? Why even posting
it?
Then, the question of "good or
bad", "save or delete",
"sense and nonsense" gets a
completely different tone ...
It's a fine difference between judgment and
feedback, I prefer feedback ...
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btw: in this context, take a "delete
me" as a "I don't like it" and
not as "It is not good". And for
"save me" vice versa. Very simple.
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on the comment "It's a fine difference
between judgment and feedback, I prefer
feedback":
-- that would be a saveme10, take it to the
safe :-)
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The deleteme members' comments on this photo
will serve to be their defining moment IMHO,
and pretty much serves as the reason why my
membership of the deleteme group was brief.
If the height of your creative awareness
and abilities can only lead you to state that
this cyclist is 'blurry' or to say you find
the bit-over-there 'distracting' or to ask
'what's it about?' ... go and join the
deleteme group - you'll find them in the pub,
sitting in armchairs, and shouting at the
television.
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holy crap they deleted Bresson that would be
a sin at my school. next they will delete
Weston or maybe Stieglitz
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oh my god!! i cant believe it... this is
Cartier-Bresson you guys.. are we serious
now?
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it is, by today's standard, an inferior
creation! All in all, it's just a hyped up
picture, it's really boring, technically
weak, and shallow, passed the woah effect
(similar to looking at esher drawings) it
falls short.
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I feel so much better now about my deleted
photos! :-)
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André, congratulations! Very nice job!
Adorei, cara, muito bom! Bolão dentro!
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one may always prefer contemporary stuff,
that is totally understandable but denying
the genius of older masterpieces is far
beyond being smartass. one does not have to
like something but appreciation is whole
another subject. I almost felt devastated
reading the previous comments, this is
Bresson for god's sake, the man who made most
people start taking photos (at least true for
me!!!)... so sad :(
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LOL
can't believe this is still going on! the
dm crowd really cannot have enough of
themselves...
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Art is subjective, if I was to vote on this
now (even knowing it was Bresson) I'd be
about 50:50, because I don't think it's
amazing. For me the fuziness of the railings
hurts and distracts my eye, as wonderful a
composition as it is. That's my opinion, just
because it's not yours and you've read more
books on phtography, doesn't mean it's any
less valid. Get over it.
To be honest I think the most moronic
comments on this photo are from those who
knew and know this to be Bresson. And, once
again, that's my opinion.
The day I stand in front of a Picasso with
my eyes shut, and know it's perfect before
I'd opened my eyes, and laugh at people with
their eyes open who don't like it, is a sad
day.
Happy Christmas all!
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Jajaja.
Me he divertido mucho.
Lo que sucede en el grupo deleteme es
terriblemente común. La crítica es fácil, y
sobre todo en internet: pinchas aqui, miras
un par de segundos, te gusta o no te gusta, y
tras un análisis ínfimo (o nulo), escribes lo
que te parece y te vas a otro sitio.
Estoy seguro de que yo lo he hecho muchas
veces también.
Sería bueno poder ver en las estadísticas,
no sólo cuántas veces ha sido vista cada
foto, sino cuánto tiempo se han parado a
observarla.
Personalmente, valoro mucho los comentarios
positivos, porque me indican cuando estoy
yendo por un buen camino. Valoro el silencio,
porque supongo que no estoy expresando lo
suficiente. Y finalmente aprecio los
comentarios sobre cómo podría ser mejor,
compositivamente, si vienen de alguien con
experiencia.
Los comentarios del estilo "me falta
aire por aqui", "me sobra aire por
alla", "tal cosa me distrae",
me suelen parecer completamente estúpidos. Si
te falta el aire abre una ventana y si algo
te distrae concéntrate. Si algo no está
completamente en foco, quizas sea porque la
nitidez no es lo importante de la imagen.
Seguramente la nitidez sea fundamental para
ver el cutis de Penélope C., pero tiene por
qué ser el elemento fundamental de una
composición, sino mas bien los colores,
volúmenes, geometrias, movimiento, luces,
sombras, perspectivas...
Si la piedra del rincón tiene sentido para
ti, si intentas decir algo con esa piedra, da
igual que venga alguien a decir que esa
piedra le distrae. Y mucho peor, que vengan a
proponerte que cortes tu foto. Que vayan a
decirle a Miguel Angel que le corte las
piernas a David, porque le quedaron cortas. O
a Leonardo: "corta la Gioconda por
debajo, que me distraen las manos".
English version now. I hope it will be
understandable:
lol
What happens in the deleteme group is
terribly common. Criticism is easy, and
mainly in Internet: you click here, look a
few seconds, you like it or not, and after a
very small (or null) analysis, you write what
you think about it and go away to another
site.
I am sure that I have often done it also.
It would be good to been able to see in the
statistics, not only how many times a photo
has been viewed, but how long they have been
stopped to observe it.
Personally, I value the positive
commentaries, because they indicate to me
when I am going by a good way. I value
silence, because I suppose that I am not
being enough expressive.. And finally esteem
the commentaries on how it could be better,
if they come from somebody with experience.
The commentaries of the style "I need
more air here", "too much air
there", "such thing distracts
me", usually seem completely stupid to
me. If you need more air open a window and if
something distracts you, try to concentrate.
If something is not completely in focus,
maybe are because sharpness is not the
important thing of the image. Surely the
sharpness is fundamental to see the skin of
Penélope C., but it not have to be the
fundamental element of a composition, but the
colors, volumes, geometry, movement, lights,
shades, perspective...
If the stone at the corner has sense for
you, if you try to say something with that
stone, is superfluous if somebody comes to
say that the stone distracts him. And much
worse, propose you to cut your photo. Go say
to Miguel Angel to cut the legs of David,
because it had left short. Or to Leonardo:
"cut the lower part of Gioconda, that
the hands distract to me".
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oh my bloody god. what's going on here? i
can't believe that and won't try to. i've
read all the comments and it's really
grotesque. it's not even funny. deletemegroup
- shame on you, guys. Andre Rabelo, thanks for reminding me what's art and what
is not.
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cristina: [deleted] says:
this made my day :D
Posted 30 months ago.
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grande andré!
way to fight the deleteme organized crime!
Posted 29 months ago.
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This is hilarious.
Posted 27 months ago.
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This show how stupid and IGNORANT are those
of the delete me group. BLAME ON YOU BLAME ON
YOU
Posted 27 months ago.
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Just stumbled upon this one thinking someone
was stealing from The Master. It turned out
to be so ironic it hurts.
What's next? Delete Van Gogh because he got
the colors all wrong?
I find some comments too harsh (on both
sides).
It's easy to say it's a great picture just
because you happen to know it's a classic,
but do you really know what makes classic a
classic?
As for the sharpness-obsessed people: I
pity you, because you're looking but not
seeing.
Posted 25 months ago.
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What I'm seeing here is all the anti-deleteme
people feeling good because DM deleted a real
artist's shot, because somehow, that
validates their own 'art' that was deleted.
But the problem is, the playing field is
different. The image was being judged as a
recent photograph, not one taken ages ago.
When we look at old paintings, we realise
that cracked canvases are par for the course,
but new paitings shouldn't be cracked. When
we watch old films we realised that dust and
scratches on the film are normal, but we
expect new films to be pristine DVD quality.
When we listen to recordings of Carouso they
are crackly, but we expect the latest Juan
Diego Florez dsic to be perfectly clear.
Are the old artists inferior? No. But we
judge old art differently from new art.
We judge today's photography by today's
standards. So what if most of the people on
DM didn't recognise a HCB, most of us have
day jobs. If HCB had a blurry street pic, it
was probably because of the limitations of
his equipment. If one of us has a blurry
picture, it's because we aren't as good as
we'd like to think.
[edited months and months later: geez...
what a load of crap I was saying! This shot
is superb, and equipment has nothing to do
with it... Deleteme just can't see the forest
for the trees]
Posted 25 months ago.
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Photography is a skill as well as a medium
for art. deletme is really useful for me,
because, I don't have the skill to take a
100% technically perfect picture yet, or even
90% - I always overlook something and its
great to have a forum that will give you that
instant feedback.
I don't expect deleteme to foster anyone's
talents as an artist anymore than an
editorial course would enable you to write
great poetry, but if you want to improve your
photography skills and you're not too
precious about what people say it's very
useful and good fun.
Posted 25 months ago.
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lol. i guess we now know who to ignore...
Posted 25 months ago.
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BTW BiG Frank, Citizen Kane is still
riveting. Go get a copy and watch.
Posted 25 months ago.
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Hilarious. This is art "criticism"
over the Internet. By visually uneducated
people. I wonder who's next. Salgado? Adams?
Posted 25 months ago.
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OK, can people get a grip on this? So it's
Cartier-Bresson - does it necessarily mean it
really is a great image? Not everything even
a master makes is great, and things don't
become great just because a master has
produced them (expensive, yes, but not
great).
oohp, do you mean that once a
"name" has produced something that
it is automatically wrong (or uncultured, or
declassè) to not to like the result? If so,
you're the bigger fool here.
Posted 25 months ago.
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deleteme has a problem
all scoring/ voting groups has a problem
only main stream things can win
group main stream pictures :-)
one group will vote the technical score
(often this fails... take a look to scoreme!)
one group will try to vote based on the
personal mind about something (like deleteme)
not only one part of the composition
but photography is a kind of art
that means you can say something about and
suggest improvements. but the one and only
important rule is: the picture is made from a
person and looks like it has to be. because
he/she created it!
in my mind the picture above is a great
work. because i have to think about! what is
the message? what is the subject? why is it
looking blurred? should it be like this?
sometimes art is nothing to look at and
understand. sometimes you have to think about
the contend.
Go out and have fun!
Posted 25 months ago.
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"Better to remain silent and be thought
a fool than to speak out and remove all
doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
Posted 25 months ago.
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the
subject of photography. Once the picture is
in the box, I'm not all that interested in
what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't
cooks. - Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004)
This is, perhaps, the best thread I have
come across on Flickr. I think the main
reason people dwell on this so much is
because the "critiques" are often
coming from people with rubbish photos in
their own streams. Rubbish defined as lacking
either artistic vision, technical expertise
or both. Hence the bitterness. It is hard to
take criticism from a person with too many
cat snapshots in their stream. No?
Art while it may go in and out of fashion
is timeless. Age doesn't invalidate or make
it bad by today's standards. Saying that HCB
would have taken a "better" photo
given today's tools is falling in the fallacy
that is so persistent among too many
"photographers" today that the tool
used to take a photo is more important than
the photographer. By now we should all
realize that the "tool" behind the
camera is more important.
The only positive aspect to this is the
fact that people are actually being open
about their feelings about art. Regardless of
the person who has created it. However, these
opinions are of "the gutter level"
since the people in question have no merit
themselves. In a sense that while everybody
can be a critic, not everybody can be a
critic that anyone would listen to. The
difference is not often subtle and is aking
to calling a photo underexposed and crap as
opposed Michelangelo-ish (Caravaggio, not
Buonarroti).
Posted 25 months ago.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of
a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
It hurts my head to think that someone
believes that, if Henri Cartier-Bresson had a
better camera his picture wouldn't have been
so blurry.
Part of being a great artist is knowing
what pieces to show. It's not that they never
make a poor piece of art, they just don't
post them on flickr.
Twelve significant photographs in any one
year is a good crop. - Ansel Adams
Posted 25 months ago.
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