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Offley Mill
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Steve, these take me back. I used to live in Stone, many moons ago, and spent many happy hours fishing near Offley Mill, and mooching around a farm at Bishop's Offley, where I knew a farmer.
Really? I live in Haughton. I bet you know the Ancher pub too?
At High Offley? It's a long time ago.... I had to think where Haughton is. West of Stafford? Not a village I went through very often.
They look great, and clean.
Steve, I notice we have the same excellent taste in cameras. I too have a Bronica SQ and an OM1. Well.....several OM1s actually....
I seem to have several OM2n models amongst my extensive collection of mint Nikon F3s. I love them. My son has just relinquished his (my original, not mint) F3 in favour of one of the OMs.
Hi. Thanks for your comments. I get the impression that you expect photographs to have front to back and side to side sharpness? I simply don't do photos like that. The out of focus part of the image us as important as the sharp focus elements, it isolates the areas that you wish to draw attention to and is intended to give the picture some 'depth'.
Yep, they don't make em like that anymore...
Steve, be aware that this forum was designed to help monochrome photographers—new and experienced— to help them get better at their craft whether it be it digital or analogue bw photography and not to heap praise on every image we post.
You've completely lost me here. Not quite sure what you are intimating.
OK. Look, Steven, I think there us a danger that we have got off on the wrong foot here. I admit that I found your previous post slightly more than patronising and possibly the fact that I have failed to introduce myself properly may have some bearing on that, so I'll try to correct that now.
The fact that I'm new on this forum does not mean I'm new to photography. I'm now retired, but I have spent many years as a commercial and social photographer. I have had memberships and fellowships of many and various photographic bodies and have professional qualifications in my fields. Having said that, I still consider that every day is a schoolday, and I learn a lot, even now, from other photographers, be they professional or amateur. I am my own biggest critic, as most people with experience are, and very much welcome genuine critical analysis of the work I produce providing (and this is important) that the criticism has some basis and merit. If I were to make a comment on someone's work, I would always try to qualify that comment and explain why I've made it. I would look at the piece and the very first thing I'd ask myself is "If I was taking this picture, how would I have done it, would my result be better or worse, and why?" And then I would explain to the author the reason for my comment and what changes I would have made in taking the photograph any why those changes would, in my opinion, have improved the picture. I would hope that my comments may bring forth a dialogue whereby both myself and the author could learn from each other.
Now, some subjects hold no interest for me whatsoever and no matter how well executed or poorly the picture is presented, it would not engage me at all. I would not feel the need to say that the picture is 'boring' or 'lacking imagination ', I think it is better just to not comment at all, similarly, some photographers will use techniques and expertise that I'm not familiar with and I would consider myself totally unqualified to comment on their work other than perhaps ask how they did it. Other times it would be obvious that a particular photograph has some deep significance to the person who took it - it may be a cherished photograph of a relative for example, and means a lot to the person who took it. It would be extremely churlish to offer criticism of such a picture, no matter how poorly it was executed.
So, to sum up this unnecessarily long post, I'm all for criticism, bring it on, but make it constructive, relevant and informative.
Cheers
Hi Steve,
Just one point, and I might be wrong here, but it seems to work for me...:
I think I'm right thinking you're posting images using the "Attach Files" at the bottom left of the posting window, so we don't get the picture showing up in your post but have to click on it. If you resize your images to 1080 px on the longest side and load them using the "Insert Images" button indicated by the red arrow, we get to see your images in the body of the thread where I feel they are better presented.
I might be wrong, though
Pete
