Hi @AdamGT I have just been reading this excellent post and all the comments. I totally agree with you on this matter if anyone feels offended by this post he or she must think twice why that is. It’s absolute constructive criticism and must be seen as an encouragement to improve yourself as person, writer/reviewer and also as a photographer. It’s been said before quality is more important than quantity. It’s a learning process like most things in life. Not many people are born with perfect talents so I’m hoping they will take time to learn and improve over time.
As a photographer I also see it from the opposite site. No words can save or improve a ‘bad’ picture. These modern times have made it easy to capture and record the world around us. There is nothing wrong with taking quick snaps for our own use but if you are going to share them try to get some quality in them. Why publish blurry and tilted pictures that tell no story? Not even 1000 words added is going to improve it.
Like your great picture of the cat that fits this post perfectly but also tells a story or evokes questions. The close up portrait with good focus on the eyes makes the viewer wonder. What is he/she looking at is there a mouse or something else?
I see many moderators who are trying to evoke better posting on connect by pointing out that just dropping a picture isn’t the way to go. I do hope people will at least try to improve the quality of their post.
Hey @Erik_van_den_Ham thanks for your well thought out reply and for agreeing with the objective behind the post. As you know, I wrote this post in April and here we are now into August and if you have a look at the daily contributions, sadly not much has changed! I’ve had ideas in the back of my head to write a follow up post on this! You are right in that most of us are not born talented but we can work at it to achieve great work and even brilliance.
I would be looking forward to a follow up on this post @AdamGT . Especially as you say: “sadly not much has changed!”. Many posts (at photography) would be so much more interesting if they were more descriptive. A lot of the post I seen lately would be even short if they were posted on Twitter!
Yes maybe a follow up post at some time might be needed @Erik_van_den_Ham but just looking through the photography board over the last few days sadly indicates that not much has changed.
Thank you for sharing with us, the photo is beautiful!
I would like to let you know that there’s an existing thread called Local Guides Garden - Year 4 - Describe your World [through the flowers], where Local Guides shared and discuss about flowers. I think your post will fit perfectly there and I am merging your post there to keep the discussion in one place.
Hi @AngieYC
Thank you for putting your effort on my post and your complement.
I was and I am totally aware about your mentioned thread , but my post is not relevant to it.
as you can see, it talks about “A picture is worth a thousand words” not talking about my garden or my flower, it talks more about communication and different type of communications.
So it would be appreciated if you bring it back in its original place please.
This is interesting @Navid_Ebdaei , so let me go a bit in deep.
You say “A picture is worth a thousand words”. What do you exactly mean? Let me explain: In your post you added a sentence and a flower. The comment from @Sophia_Cambodia was "Beautiful photo" and your reply “Thank you dear”. This doesn’t seems to be a conversation “about communication and different type of communications*”,* as you are explaining now to us. If you are correct, and “A picture is worth a thousand words” the message received by @AngieYC , and the related move to the Garden, are absolutely correct. If the scope of the post was to open a conversation about visual communication (so your text is prevalent to your photo) as you didn’t added any note, I should say that no, a picture doesn’t always worth thousands words. and in fact your message was misunderstood.
As you now explained the meaning of your post, and it seems that you wanted to start a conversation about this subject, I am moving your post in an existing thread where you can read what others said about this, and you can exchange your point of view with them, hopefully focusing in the Local Guides topics, as we add photos in the businesses in Google Maps. I am moving your post in Is a picture always worth a 1000 words? by @AdamGT
एक फोटो बहुत समय पहले जब हम लोग के पास मोबाइल नहीं हुआ करता था अच्छे कैमरे नहीं हुआ करते थे तब हम चाहकर भी अपने ख्याल को अपने पसंद की हुई किसी खूबसूरत चीज का फोटो नहीं ले पाते थे कि भविष्य में हम उसको देखें फोटो क्या है फोटो मन के अपने विचार हैं हमारे भाव हैं कि हम किस भाव से किसी का पिक्चर क्लिक कर रहे हैं और खूबसूरती को कैसे अपने पास रखेंगे क्यों भविष्य में समय अंतराल के बाद उनसे पिक्चरों को देखें अपने जीवन में उसको उतारें खूबसूरती के बारे में लिखें अपनी बातें एक दूसरे से साझा करें उसका सिर्फ और सिर्फ एक ही माध्यम होता है पिक्चर तस्वीर फोटो l
Great point @AdamGT I’m going down a rabbit hole of your amazing articles- going off a tangent while trying to review your leaderboard articles for the quiz.
I like this article because I feel the same too. I notice some people just post the photo. In those cases when I notice, I try to entice those people to share more. For example, I provide a positive comment such as “Nice photo, love the colors. Can you tell us more where it was taken? I would love to visit it someday.” My hope is to encourage them to get more comfortable with writing more.
Hi @AdamGT, I only saw this post now after you referred in a different thread!
I can only agree with
In fact, I go a step further saying, a photo is useless without context - at least when talking about the pictures, I made. The statement “Is a picture always worth a 1000 words” still holds, but thousand times multiplied by zero results in zero.
OK, there exits photos of high artistic value. Others might see it differently, but my first question is always “What/who is that?”, “Where/when was that?” … etc.
I inherited many photos from my aunt. Some people or places, I can recognize, but most of it is now just paper with anonymous memories of the twentieths century.
For that reason, I spend a lot of time tagging and organizing all my photos, instead of enhancing them with Photoshop & Co.
Also, I’m pleased that you agree with the point I’m making in this post.
