I have to post this as possibly a warning to how one can destroy anothers interest
Yes it has/is happening to me. So much so I have even left another forum. I don't know what this particular guy's hang up is/was but whatever Photo I posted he slagged off. Other members actually liked them. First of all according to him all my photos were out of focus, this may well have been true to an extent but his remidies basically said I should give up as I didn't know what i was doing. Should not even have a camera until I learnt the basics
Gave all sorts of advice,all except realizing the lens itself was a bit OOF wide open. So anyway got a new lens of different make and that shut him up, for a while at least. Then he started attacking other aspects like composition- lighting- reframing in editing anything he could think of. This went on for over 2 years at least. the Mods I complained to said and did nothing even though it was against site rules
To me photography is the means to remember places and events at different times irrespectively of how good a photo is . To him it has to be critically perfect visually and technically to the extent of being paraniod about it.
Criticise by all means but if asked to not do so then respect those wishes. He did not and intensified the attacks to cause me undue stress. leaving that particular forum is a weight off my shoulders.
Yes it has/is happening to me. So much so I have even left another forum. I don't know what this particular guy's hang up is/was but whatever Photo I posted he slagged off. Other members actually liked them. First of all according to him all my photos were out of focus, this may well have been true to an extent but his remidies basically said I should give up as I didn't know what i was doing. Should not even have a camera until I learnt the basics
Gave all sorts of advice,all except realizing the lens itself was a bit OOF wide open. So anyway got a new lens of different make and that shut him up, for a while at least. Then he started attacking other aspects like composition- lighting- reframing in editing anything he could think of. This went on for over 2 years at least. the Mods I complained to said and did nothing even though it was against site rules
To me photography is the means to remember places and events at different times irrespectively of how good a photo is . To him it has to be critically perfect visually and technically to the extent of being paraniod about it.
Criticise by all means but if asked to not do so then respect those wishes. He did not and intensified the attacks to cause me undue stress. leaving that particular forum is a weight off my shoulders.
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