Boring Photographs

[Leszek Vogt]

OMG, John. If I was jabbering on stage as this guy on the video, I believe there would have been full expectation of a shoe flying towards me....at any time.

Les

[Alan Gales]

Camera club and check box scoring system photography.

Is this what you are talking about?

https://psa-photo.org

[faberryman]

Maybe they just have not been large enough.

Yes. Go big or go home. I recently saw a call for entries where the minimum size was 20x24.

[AuditorOne]

Yes. Go big or go home. I recently saw a call for entries where the minimum size was 20x24.

I think the biggest I have lying around is 16x20. I'll wind the old Beseler up and give it a try though I may have to find some trays.

I'm pretty sure it will still be boring though.

[Gary Tarbert]

Camera club and check box scoring system photography.

Yes and no , I judge at some of these clubs and have done for many years , I have found since digital the creativity has increased , Still a lot of cliches , I do not use check box scoring ,And clubs in Australia do not encourage it , i assume by check box you mean so many points for tech quality , so many for composition , so many for originality , So many for presentation type scoring The only comp i judged that had check box scoring was a pro one

[Drew Wiley]

Every piece of art that makes a self-conscious effort to be "different" and not boring, is boring.

[AuditorOne]

I hate to say this Drew but that sounds like one of those pat little statements that people like to throw around, but I'm not too certain how you can say that unless you have a premonition of every form of art that someone may try to create; different or otherwise. There is no universal rule that I am aware of that requires all new and different forms of art to be boring.

But I am open to being enlightened. (Of course that is probably another one of those pat little statements as well.)

[Jac@stafford.net]

Every piece of art that makes a self-conscious effort to be "different" and not boring, is boring.

An interesting statement for literature but it has nothing to do with visual art unless you will post any of your images.
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[scheinfluger_77]

Great examples on BBC today.

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-42227931

Actually, the first one that looks like an eye and eyebrow is quite inventive i think. Not boring in my view, but most of the others... yeah probably.

[scheinfluger_77]

and...google has it right... my eyes glaze over when I see yet another of the same thing... I can page thru Flickr's latest pix day by day and maybe.. maybe every third day I stop and see something interesting.. the rest are 'same ol - same ol' - ie boring

I think to only way to know great photography..is to spend a heck of a lot of time looking at not-great photography... then it becomes self evident even if you cannot explain why

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