Comments on: Making light versus creating light http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2009/07/03/making-light-versus-creating-light/ Photography through colorblind eyes. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:51:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: colorblinded http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2009/07/03/making-light-versus-creating-light/comment-page-1/#comment-2890 colorblinded Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:38:37 +0000 http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/?p=1455#comment-2890 Perhaps I can find a better way to phrase a lot of that... maybe some day I'll try :) Either way, thanks for your comments and I do agree that I think a lot of people read tutorials at face value and don't take the time necessary to try for themselves and experiment with different things beyond what the tutorial shows. It's part of why so many people ask silly questions about what something will do when it only would take them five minutes to test it for themselves! Perhaps I can find a better way to phrase a lot of that… maybe some day I’ll try :)

Either way, thanks for your comments and I do agree that I think a lot of people read tutorials at face value and don’t take the time necessary to try for themselves and experiment with different things beyond what the tutorial shows. It’s part of why so many people ask silly questions about what something will do when it only would take them five minutes to test it for themselves!

]]> By: Sussex Photographer http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2009/07/03/making-light-versus-creating-light/comment-page-1/#comment-2888 Sussex Photographer Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:37:30 +0000 http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/?p=1455#comment-2888 It wasn't until I got to your final paragraph that I understood what you were saying here. I agree entirely with that last paragraph and I wouldn't blame David Hobby for the faults you mention. I've seen them too. One particular one that irks me is the idea there must be no shadows. Another I've seen a lot on various boards on places like Flickr is the critique that talks about harsh light when all they mean is bright light and even then quite often they don't even mean blown out whites. These all stem from an inability to study as far as I can see. It seems that someone can write a blog post outlining what you would do in order to learn a technique. Then the reader reads the post and figures that is all he needs to do. It wasn’t until I got to your final paragraph that I understood what you were saying here. I agree entirely with that last paragraph and I wouldn’t blame David Hobby for the faults you mention. I’ve seen them too. One particular one that irks me is the idea there must be no shadows. Another I’ve seen a lot on various boards on places like Flickr is the critique that talks about harsh light when all they mean is bright light and even then quite often they don’t even mean blown out whites.

These all stem from an inability to study as far as I can see. It seems that someone can write a blog post outlining what you would do in order to learn a technique. Then the reader reads the post and figures that is all he needs to do.

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