Re: Images: Tequila Chica's In Miami Beach


"Mike" <mike@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Roy" <royphoty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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>>>Unlike ordinary snapshots, they show in a living manner how >people are,
>>>and how they live.
>>>Not many photographers do that. Such pictures could be >surprisingly the
>>>ones which will be most interesting in 25 / 30 years. How people are,
>>> >and how they behave.
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>> Oh Dear, what a wicked person I am.
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>> They do not show anything of the kind, they are just snapshots of people
>> at a bar. In 50 or 100 years they may well be of considerable interest
>> to Fashion Historians, so post them onto the web then.
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>> If people publish photos and then tell everyone on a newsgroup that they
>> have done so, and invite them to have a look, then they should expect
>> some criticism if the pictures are of limited interest or merit.
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>> A number of the other posters, have stuff which is very interesting to
>> look at, and has considerable merit. Compared to that quality of
>> photography his stuff is very pedestrian, but if no-one ever tells him
>> so, he is going to keep on thinking he is some sort of latter day Cartier
>> Bresson, and he will never have any incentive to get any better.
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>> Roy G
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> My observation was about the general photographic subjects that Mr.
> Lautermilch puts online. Not specificaly about the Tequila Girls.
> The sole problem is there are people whose first aim in life and on usenet
> is to scratch publicly anything which does not suit their taste.
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> Mike

I'm afraid I have to agree with Roy. I didn't look at all the photos but I
did look at those that seemed most promising (or least unpromising) in the
thumbnails, and to me they didn't look very good and certainly not very
interesting. For the most part they didn't even look sharp, which is hard to
understand. I don't see how someone can take shots (at up to 1/500 no less)
with a lens of modest focal length and shown in a very modest size on a
computer screen, and not have it sharp. And this with a Nikon D70?!

Look at DSC_4897.jpg, for example. I don't mean to be unkind, but why on
earth would someone take a shot like this and *not* immediately hit the
trashcan button? Let alone post it?

My sister, who takes lots of pictures but isn't into photography at anything
like a technical level, takes sharper photos than these with her little
Nikon 4100. I'm not saying that sharpness is the be-all and end-all of
photography, and in fact it seems to me that some photographers obsess over
it too much, but there should be *some* minimum level and for me most of
these photos don't make it.

Apart from that, there are some shots (like those of the girl in the white
cowgirl outfit) that are posed--and posed badly, as well as set up badly. If
someone is going to pose a shot it had better be set up and posed well.

Neil


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