Standards for Critique

[mtbbrian]

Can I get an AMEN brother!

AMEN!
;)

[readingr]

I spend much time looking at the photos here. Reading and never posting.

First I study a posted pic, form my opinion and then read the responses. For me it is a great learning tool.

My photography for the most part is sports, but I have recently started trying taking some portrait type shots of my daughter & really need help with them. For me to put her pic up here to be told she has something wrong with her that I should PS out and to have a snarky critique is the reason I don't post pics here. I'm not a pro photog & probably will never be. However, I love the photography & spend a lot of time working on it. It would be a valuable tool for me to get advice but I'm not interested in a specific type of professional critique. It is those types of critiques that make me keep my pics outside of sports to myself & my sports shots stay on the sports board.

Jeta,

Thank you for being so brave and posting this response - I was once like you eager to learn but the Internet wasn't around in those days.

Please post some pics so that we can help as this is what this forum is all about. By the way I'm not a pro photographer and I have never claimed to be a pro and in my critiques I try to give what I believe will help the photograph and the photographer.

Don't be scared - post away as that is the only way to learn. I looked at some of the posts you made on the Sports forum so I don't think you've got much to be worried about.

OH! by the way according to some of Ronnoco's rules some of Lord Patrick Lichfields portraits would get a slating and they sell for £1000's - go figure!

Roger