Here’s to 2019! A new Photo Critic website, and more news …
Here’s to 2019! Read all about our plans for the new year, the updated Photo Critic, and new photography courses. New Year's message by Danie Bester
The Photo Critic Photo of the Month competition for February goes to Ken Jennings with his picture titled " Solitude on misty lake ".
I would like to expand on the importance of giving people good, useful and most importantly honest feedback. As beginner photographers embark on their journey they amass a huge number of images. Generally they produce prolific quantities of work, which inevitably ends up on social network pages. When you upload to a site such as Facebook and tag friends and family members the comments start rolling in. These comments offer great self-esteem boosts causing us to add more images to get our fix of ego stroking.
I often work with new photographers and when I ask to see their work they become shy and introverted “no, I’m not showing you that”. This is surprisingly common, and if you think about it, it is also a surprisingly counter intuitive stance. As an artist or a photographer specifically, you have chosen a solely visual medium and its very purpose is to be seen.