Originally posted by Wheatfield This is an elitist, supercilious attitude.
As an example, I don't have to hit a person in the head with a 12 pound sledgehammer to know that doing so would stave in said person's skull. The theoretical construction is plenty good enough.
The only thing that proves you know what you are talking about is knowing what you are talking about and having the language skills required to get your point across.
Yes.
Beyond this... sharing photographs isn't necessarily proving ones point. Because how one does or does not value a photograph is subjective. Unless the photographs are proving objects or phenomenon visible in the photo... but that wasn't the discussion.
One can even understand the steps of achieving a certain photographic technique yet not have mastered it and still effectively
know and share the technique... even if they, themselves, find their own performance in this technique is subpar.
I had this discussion with another forum goer a few months ago and it went around and around and around.. It was their appeal to claim photographs (that will be subjectively weighed/valued by each person separately) proved their
opinion (somehow objectively) on a topic that is subjective in itself. Yet it was, in their minds, quite absolute and definitive. Strange logic. So just have to agree to disagree with those folks and move on I think..