I am to the point to where I believe that there are people that takes the pictures and the people that buys the pictures, and I am thinking I should be one of the ones buying the pictures.
Of all the pictures I have seen here 95% of them I would have bought, saw nothing wrong with them, that is until I started trying to train my eye by reading the Critique Corner thread, I would look at a picture and say to myself I see nothing wrong with the picture, then I scroll down and the eagle eye photographers here points out things that I didn't see, I mean down to a gnats eye lash out of place.
It reminds me of airbrushing, I tried it three times in my life and never could get anything I painted 2/3 D looking, just a flat image with drak spots that should look like shadows and shading, took a skull shined a flash light top right, saw the shadows on the skull but never could transfer what I saw to what I was painting on, my mind just couldn't handle it for some reason, Now with photography it's the same thing, don't get the lighting right, dull flat images, with airbrushing never could get an image to look like it was poping out of what I was painting on, Photography, minds eye hasn't figured out how to see in 2/3 D when taking pictures (make the subject pop off the page) = snap shots. I think the photographers with the eagle eyes would make great airbrush artist.
Thinking back, my brother had pictures made of his daughters when they were growing up and now that they have kids there has been pictures made of the kids at every occasion, they have bought tons of pictures and not one time have I or they noticed any of the things that the eagle eyes here notice in a picture, Be thankful pros that we don't see the things that you see because if we did your job would become harder at selling pictures.
