Hmmm. I must be missing something here. But I've decided that they're capable of focussing and using photoshop (although pretty hideously in this particular example).
Can you point to something unusual about these that may help me decide on other things? posted by strawberryviagra at 4:42 PM on May 24
posted"Just another photoblog? Perhaps. Keep clicking previous"
Yep. This stuff looks like fairly average stock photography, to be honest. Bland. The best ones look more book-jackety than anything else. And, man, the desaturation has been played out.
Marketable (and I'm sure they'd make a bundle), but not particularly remarkable. posted by Sys Rq at 4:57 PM on May 24
Just another photoblog?
Looks like it. posted by grouse at 5:14 PM on May 24
Is framing a featured link with a rhetorical question a good way to promote sarcastic responses? Read this thread and then decide.
But seriously, this is just another photo blog, unless I missed something. posted by chudmonkey at 5:36 PM on May 24
I'm going to guess that Núria Jordán and Salvador Barceló are elephants. posted by Dave Faris at 5:49 PM on May 24
When you overpromise and underdeliver, that's what happens. posted by DU at 6:10 PM on May 24
Luring us to bland stock photography with a mysterious hint is lame. posted by w0mbat at 6:30 PM on May 24
I have to agree with others. These photographs are pretty pedestrian, run-of-the-mill. posted by ericb at 6:46 PM on May 24
How novel -- a photoblog with broken navigation! I'll have to tell all my friends. posted by gum at 6:58 PM on May 24
Well, I guess this is why I asked this question about appreciating art. I thought a number of these photos were pretty awesome. Apparently, I've got a lot to learn. posted by netbros at 7:36 PM on May 24
Dave Faris: "I'm going to guess that Núria Jordán and Salvador Barceló are elephants."
I can't believe I wasted several precious minutes of my life on this. I kept waiting for something spectacular to happen.. I'm not sure what. Judgement Day perhaps. posted by Raynyn at 8:06 PM on May 24
Well, I guess this is why I asked this question about appreciating art. I thought a number of these photos were pretty awesome. Apparently, I've got a lot to learn.
Let's see if I can successfully straddle the fence here. I did it once before, and it saved me the cost of a vasectomy.
I've been a serious amateur photographer for many years. (Well, I do get paid for it sometimes, when my other work calls for it.) The comments that say these photos are not anything really special are, in my opinion, correct. But, you are also correct that a number of the photos are pretty awesome. It's just that the internet has made so many wonderful photographs accessible. So, to those of us who have seen a lot of photography online already, these are par for the course.
Prior to the Web, the only way to see any amount of good photography, short of going to a gallery or museum, was to go to the library. I would sit for hours with books featuring photographs by Irving Penn, Margaret Bourke-White, Arnold Newman, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, and many others. Now that so much photography is online, I can probably see more photographs in a few hours of browsing photo-blogs than I had seen in my thirty five years prior to installing my first web browser.
So, there's nothing wrong with the linked photos. They inspire me to get out and shoot more, and see things in a new way. Just because they are not extraordinarily different than anything else out there does make them bad. Every photographer has their own way of doing things, and I like seeing what others are doing. You liked them, and they made enough of an impression on you to compel you to post them here. That's nothing to be ashamed of at all. Thanks for posting, I wouldn't have seen them otherwise. posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 8:36 PM on May 24 [5 favorites]
Fuzzy Skinner is right: you haven't failed at appreciating photography, you failed at crafting a FPP suitable to the subject. posted by chudmonkey at 9:40 PM on May 24
Gee, I thought those posted by photoslob were meh (the 2nd one is even broke), so I guess beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, or is only skin deep, or something like that. posted by netbros at 4:02 AM on May 25
Thanks for the constructive criticism Fuzzy Skinner. That was helpful for the future. posted by netbros at 4:09 AM on May 25
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Can you point to something unusual about these that may help me decide on other things?
posted by strawberryviagra at 4:42 PM on May 24