Judging Photos

[Doug Brewer]

mike wilson wrote:

> 
> I think that the possible subtleties of "chemical" pictures are being 
> lost/abandoned in favour of "smack'em in the eye" colour and graphic 
> composition.  It's only an impression, which I have no empirical 
> evidence for, but two people on this list in the last month have 
> mentioned it.  My belief is that the preponderance of viewing onscreen, 
> using thumbnails to choose which pictures to look at in any depth, 
> reinforces this type of selection.
> 

Ah. No, don't think so. Photographers who shoot with subtlety will still 
do so, using digital. Just as there were photographers who did "smack 
'em in the eye colo(u)r", graphic compositions with film.