The same people are doing all the work

I've noticed there are a few overworked members of OPF who are the only ones willing to stick their necks out and really give their opinions, bluntly and without sugar coating. That means those few people do all the work.

Me, I've not been certain enough I know what I'm doing to contribute much. However, the current situation is untenable. I have a proposal: How about the rest of us (me, primarily) pull on our "big girl panties" and take some risks? Will anyone be offended if I give it a real honest shot? I'll be wrong a lot, of course, but maybe pointing out where I (and others) are wrong will be a learning experience in itself.

What's the general feeling on this?

Rachel Foster said:

I've noticed there are a few overworked members of OPF who are the only ones willing to stick their necks out and really give their opinions, bluntly and without sugar coating. That means those few people do all the work.

Me, I've not been certain enough I know what I'm doing to contribute much. However, the current situation is untenable. I have a proposal: How about the rest of us (me, primarily) pull on our "big girl panties" and take some risks? Will anyone be offended if I give it a real honest shot? I'll be wrong a lot, of course, but maybe pointing out where I (and others) are wrong will be a learning experience in itself.

What's the general feeling on this?

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Rachel,

I'm glad that you had the guts to see that you had a strong opinion of the bridge picture. I personally wanted to know why it was posted and thought there's something wrong here, looked at it carefully, examined the colors, composition and subject and found it was, to me at least empty. Now the fact that Maris commented as if it was good made me wonder. Now Maris is an experienced B&W film photographer. He believes in real photography with light actually writing into the paper organically. So when he appeared to find value in the picture, I was puzzled. I thought, O.K., this is a joke, he's teasing. So I just went along with it and asked how he's deal with the over blown yellow streak, which I dislike as much as the entire composition.

So I valued that you were open, direct with your opinion.

Ken too!

Most folk are indeed to scared to give there opinion. Erik has produced other pictures which I found value in. I'm glad that you addressed the picture and are honest.

Asher