Pipeman
15-03-2011, 11:38 AM
My main photographic interest is sport, yet I often submit sports images to the gallery with a "why bother?" feeling, and look for landscapes or macros, or such, to submit instead.
There seems to be a general disinterest in such images, not only here but on other sites too, and I am left wondering why.
What bugs me most is the lack of members who even view sports shots, let alone comment on them.
My recent submissions brought this on - 20-ish views, three of which were recorded as soon as I loaded them up, and several were me trying to establish what aspects of them turned people off. This compares to about double these numbers for other submissions.
It's not the composition, not the action going on, the quality might sometimes be noisy (1/500th on a miserable March afternoon cannot be acheived at ISO 100), and I know from years of shooting sport that they are decent images.
TOG is a Photograhpic community, there to appreciate photographs and the efforts of other members, not simply to admire and comment on images that grab interest from thumbnails because of their subject matter.
I try very hard to comment on as many images as I can, some of which I can truthfully say are "not my subject", but they are photographs which have taken effort by the photographer, and therefore they deserve my attention. Even if I do not comment I do at least look at them - that only takes a few seconds.
Whilst I do not consider myself an expert at sport, I know that I am at least competent, and feel that sporting images should receive the same consideration by members as any other subject matter.
There seems to be a general disinterest in such images, not only here but on other sites too, and I am left wondering why.
What bugs me most is the lack of members who even view sports shots, let alone comment on them.
My recent submissions brought this on - 20-ish views, three of which were recorded as soon as I loaded them up, and several were me trying to establish what aspects of them turned people off. This compares to about double these numbers for other submissions.
It's not the composition, not the action going on, the quality might sometimes be noisy (1/500th on a miserable March afternoon cannot be acheived at ISO 100), and I know from years of shooting sport that they are decent images.
TOG is a Photograhpic community, there to appreciate photographs and the efforts of other members, not simply to admire and comment on images that grab interest from thumbnails because of their subject matter.
I try very hard to comment on as many images as I can, some of which I can truthfully say are "not my subject", but they are photographs which have taken effort by the photographer, and therefore they deserve my attention. Even if I do not comment I do at least look at them - that only takes a few seconds.
Whilst I do not consider myself an expert at sport, I know that I am at least competent, and feel that sporting images should receive the same consideration by members as any other subject matter.