I am so Jaded....

[sk66]

I had a gift card for Barnes & Nobles book store and there wasn't really anything I "needed" or thought I could really benefit from so I got National Geographic's "Simply Beautiful Photographs". A huge collection of supposedly great pictures.

In going thru the book, if the pics were mine probably 20% would have been deleted, another 30% never shown, and maybe half of them would have been 4-5 star.....

I probably should have bought a self help book of some kind...

[Jim Bryant]

I guess you saw something entirely different in the photos than what the editors did. I thought the book was as good as what's been published by the NGS. I've often questioned what images editors chose of my work. Then again, that's why they are paid to be editors.

[3bayjunkie]

well that just means you probably won't ever get a job working for National Geographic because they would be waiting for ever for you to bring them a photo

[sk66]

Originally Posted by Jim Bryant

I guess you saw something entirely different in the photos than what the editors did. I thought the book was as good as what's been published by the NGS. I've often questioned what images editors chose of my work. Then again, that's why they are paid to be editors.

Some of it was the change in technology...
Once upon a time film grain was accepted..."image noise" is now EVIL.
And yes, some just seemed "average", but I think that might be do to the wealth of images available to view these days.

[sk66]

Originally Posted by 3bayjunkie

well that just means you probably won't ever get a job working for National Geographic because they would be waiting for ever for you to bring them a photo

Oh, if I was under contract I would deliver pictures.....but maybe nothing I would rate as fantastic.

[Tzetsin]

Lol buddy, you an I both...

I just took back a NG compilation book to the library, I got a fair ways in... Kept looking at the pictures front... back... side, in, out and upside down... either I just dont get it or perhaps its like professional sports, the superstars of the past wouldn't get onto farm teams nowadays.

Perhaps its because we can actually achieve our "vision" after the shot with post that we're now creating superstar images they were technically unable to create in the past?

Anyway... I could take cleaner pictures at ISO 25600 than some of those shots.