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Recent Comments
- Richard Totally agree with this wade. I do a fair bit of street photography and I look for light, background and color first. Then like a fisherman I wait and hope for an interesting subject or...
- Subhamoy Hi,Wade,The condition is same in India too. Sometimes the print media houses drop their own staff photographers images and publish a freelancer’s work, not because quality but it is a...
- Mike Whenever Adobe bring out a new version of Lightroom, I hear Lightroom users saying how fantastic the latest RAW engine or noise reduction is, but I just can’t get past the weird, modal...
- Simon Crerar Great analysis mate: I think the snapper should test the pic editor’s theory that the £400 offered to settle the case is more than he would be awarded in court. Epochal times we...
- Brian Cassey Or me Wade !!!! As Wade stated I was standing right next to him at the time and can verify (not that he needs it) every word he says about the ‘incident’ … I made...
- Mark I don’t understand this will to try to control the media. The media ultimately are responsible for their popularity and these kind of moves only seem to alienate. Will it take a boycott...
- Ted McDonnell Wade, it is a terrible painful truth that newspapers are potentially in their last throws of life if the newspapers owners and their senior management do not do something radical...
- Rob Walls I could not agree more, Wade…but even then have experienced moments in the analogue photo age, where I couldn’t resist “tickling” an image by altering it but...
- Asanka Brendon Ratnayake This reminds me of a story recently at at the Queens dinner at CHOGM. When the official photographs were released, the photo of Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa shaking hands...
- Ted McDonnell Wade, you make some very valid points, but I do not agree with your veiled premise that today’s journalist is better than yesterdays. In fact, that is far from the truth....
- Richard I think we are in agreement. Im probably not explaining myself properly, I mean anti photography in terms of breaking from tradition. Photography seems to be stooped in rules around what...
- Kevin Griffin I wouldnt agree of it being anti-photography, for what is photography to begin with? He has used the medium in yet another different way, portraying its use, as yes, id agree maybe as...
- Richard There is a lot of gursky stuff I like. I saw his work at gallery of NSW a few years back. The supermarket pic was epic. They need to be viewed as intended, printed large to really...
- Kevin Griffin Well…its good to see photography being recognized as a medium of expression by collectors who can afford it, id certainly pay a few quid to go view the vintage!
- Kevin Griffin I like it, I like it alot, the simple message in this is great. It seems to yell alot about photography today, how it was manipulated really makes one question photography and what is...
- Neerav That photo is bland and has no redeeming features IMHO. I’m guessing his previous sold photos were more remarkable?
- Juan I hate digital photography,is superficial and fake…now every stupid people have a digital camera.
- Rob Walls Know precisely what you mean, Wade. Many years ago, I tried to break through that wall of indifference to the recording of political history. After weeks of negotiation with the Whitlam...
- David Bro WL, Your comparison is Yes and No—for US at least…. bro
- Dr Chris Westinghouse Pete Souza is a brilliant photojournalist and has been associated with White House photography for a long time – before being appointed Barack Obama’s offical...
- Anthony Vandewerdt I got excited and thought you had a new job. #;-)
- Richard Lord I have attempted to work with Model Mayhem models for two years and I have quit in exasperation. It is a site for young women whose attitude is “I put on a pretty dress. Takes a...
- Saira Great post Wade but I have to say that Model Mayhem is something you should stay away from if you want to actually get some decent models. Instead, photographers should approach casting...
- Steve Marshall lake george, NSW, looking east south east.
- Kevin Griffin This advice should be taken in the right light, it has greater value then money, which is experience and knowledge. I’ve been told this “tip” and this argument a...
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