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Has anyone ever posted the perfect photo? Someone or other usually finds a way it can be improved.
 
I can take a perfect photo of a white wall, or a black wall for that matter.
 
"Perfection closes the door"
 
When university staff managers started ranking the university academics according to the number of citations their published papers got it didn't take long for the academics to realize that the easiest way to boost your citations total and thus improve your salary and promotion prospects was to incorporate a simple obvious error into your paper. Thousands would rush to correct the error, of course citing the paper in the process.

So if you want lots of people to comment on your photograph, just make sure there's at least one easily spotted technical flaw in it. Shouldn't be too difficult :-)
 
I suspect we all have and at the same time none of us have.

Perfect is so subjective. Firstly how do you see perfect. Is it Technically? visually? or is just purely it is the picture you wanted to capture at the time?

The last one I suspect/hope we all have done, the other two I am not so sure.
 
realspeed said:
Has anyone ever posted the perfect photo? Someone or other usually finds a way it can be improved.
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I've posted pictures I've been very happy with only for people to criticise the subject or the DoF. Even if there could be a perfect picture someone would have to criticise it even if their criticism was... ridiculous... in the opinion of the picture taker but in the end it's my opinion of my pictures that matters :D
 
realspeed said:
Has anyone ever posted the perfect photo? Someone or other usually finds a way it can be improved.
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A photo is of both technical and communication nature.
In both, the value is within the eyes looking at it.

The only absolute is relativity!
 
Graham W said:
I "Liked" your comment even though I have no idea what you're talking about. :)
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He is saying....it's subjective basically.

There are lot of technical rules in photography, but then, some can be broken to great effect.

Then there is the story telling of a photo, in my opinion, a good photo is like a good piece of art, you know when you go to a gallery and you see a painting and next to it there is a small print next explaining the concept of the painting, the origin and perhaps the intention of the painting. Well, a good photo shouldn't really need that, when you look at it, it should tell you everything you needed to know. It should speak to you by itself without an addendum accompanying it.

If you can do both, then the photo is likely to be pretty decent.
 
Graham W said:
no idea what you're talking about.
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Thanks for the like Graham! :cool: Sorry for the poor
translation of both my idea and my language.

What I meant is a perfect photo may be both: technically
perfect and perfectly tell a good story, convey emotions…
communicate something. And these can best be appre-
ciated by the eyes upon it and which they will comment.
Raymond Lin said:
If you can do both, then the photo is likely to be pretty decent.
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That's very likely a pretty decent way to put it Raymond! :)


Hoping to have deserved your like this time!
 
Kodiak Qc said:
Thanks for the like Graham! :cool: Sorry for the poor
translation of both my idea and my language.

What I meant is a perfect photo may be both: technically
perfect and perfectly tell a good story, convey emotions…
communicate something. And these can best be appre-
ciated by the eyes upon it and which they will comment.

That's very likely a pretty decent way to put it Raymond! :)


Hoping to have deserved your like this time!
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I'd just got home having spent 7 hours painting a fence, my brain had turned to jelly. I get it now. :-)
 
petersmart said:
And even Einstein made a mistake with that
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As a student in cosmology… a long time ago,
I know that this quote was not from a physicist
or alike but from a humanist. :cool:
 
Here’s my opinion for what it’s worth …

The perfect photo is the one that wings its way around the globe and lands on the front page of every major newspaper within 24 hours of it being taken. It is powerful, it speaks volumes, and it carries with it the hope that it will never be taken again. It is born of conflict and it is defiance.

It is …

Mary Ann Vecchio at Kent State University, Ohio

The tank man in Tiananmen Square.

Three firefighters and a flag amid the smoke and debris of the World Trade Center.

Ieshia Evans at Baton Rouge.



It is unlikely that you will ever see the perfect photo posted here because, in all probability, none of us will ever take it.
 
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Stuart M said:
The perfect photo is the one that wings its way around the globe and lands on the front page of every major newspaper within 24 hours of it being taken. It is powerful, it speaks volumes, and it carries with it the hope that it will never be taken again. It is born of conflict and it is defiance.
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The same should apply to any form of art I suppose!
Stuart M said:
It is … Mary Ann Vecchio at Kent State University, Ohio, The tank man in Tiananmen Square. Three firefighters and a flag amid the smoke and debris of the World Trade Centre. Ieshia Evans at Baton Rouge.
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They were covering a lot but perfect?
Stuart M said:
It is unlikely that you will ever see the perfect photo posted here because, in all probability, none of us will ever take it.
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I don't think I'd go with this…
 
Stuart M said:
Here’s my opinion for what it’s worth …

The perfect photo is the one that wings its way around the globe and lands on the front page of every major newspaper within 24 hours of it being taken. It is powerful, it speaks volumes, and it carries with it the hope that it will never be taken again. It is born of conflict and it is defiance.

It is …

Mary Ann Vecchio at Kent State University, Ohio

The tank man in Tiananmen Square.

Three firefighters and a flag amid the smoke and debris of the World Trade Center.

Ieshia Evans at Baton Rouge.



It is unlikely that you will ever see the perfect photo posted here because, in all probability, none of us will ever take it.
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These may have been striking photos but none could be described as "perfect" photographically speaking.

And I have seen many photos on here and other places which IMO came near to being perfect, both visually striking and technically excellent.
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If you want to see a "perfect" photo, just watch most movies by some of the great directors and cinematographers.

Those photos are set up on purpose, hence "perfect" as they can be intended.
 
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