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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > The Dorkroom > Post awesome photos from other photographers
 
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Bread Zeppelin
Aug 2, 2006
Stairway to Leaven

Twenties Superstar posted:

I'm sorry I'm not going to reply fully to this, I have to go to work. I'm just going to say that maybe you aren't cut out for this whole art thing.

I think he has some very fair criticisms about that image and I agree. Your attitude of "I'm not going to defend this work because none of you would understand" sucks.

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Bread Zeppelin
Aug 2, 2006
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notlodar posted:




A parallel to work being considered good on the merits of the photographer's name is pictures of famous people considered good just because of the subject. Every year in the Communication Arts photography annual there are at least 3-4 snapshots of celebrities. If the subject was anyone else it wouldn't even get good comments on flickr. Other than judges' response of "Oooh celebrities!" can anyone explain why this is?

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Bread Zeppelin
Aug 2, 2006
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I'm not saying this just to be contrarian or because I think I'm great, but I'm not that wowed by most of the things in there. There are some shots with really great interesting lighting, but a lot of the shots look intentionally pretentious with overly contrived posing. If you took the "GUCCI" logo off that set of images, would they still be worth looking at?
Maybe that's just how high fashion photography is; I guess it's just not for me.

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Bread Zeppelin
Aug 2, 2006
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Rot posted:

While not nearly as emotionally moving as the last few galleries, whenever I see a Grant Gunderson photo on the cover of a ski magazine I get all excited. He's my favourite sports photographer.

Not sure how to link an image off his site:
http://www.grantgunderson.com/

I find his work doubly inspiring/frustrating: I can't shoot like him nor can I ski like the athletes he shoots.

I know him!

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