Originally posted by Gene Temple But if you think its a good idea, I'm game.
Thanks again,
Gene
It's well understood that critiquing others work helps your own. Think about it, you have an emotional attachment to your own. Sometimes you like a picture for a personal reason which had nothing to do with the technicalities or aesthetics and it's impossible to get beyond the reason you do like it. In the same vein you can dislike a good picture for personal reasons and not realise how good it is. With someone else's picture, you get beyond the emotional attachment and enable yourself to see what's right/wrong, good/bad about a picture. Critiquing is subjective as well so you can't really be wrong but at the same time you can measure your own critique against critique from someone else and change your mind because that other person has shown you another way of seeing that particular picture.
Sorry to be long winded but I have had a hard time in class because people have been frightened to critique and it just made things tougher for me because it was so one sided. Also it's because I know how beneficial it is to people once they get started.