It was civil. It was also obvious that nobody wanted to discuss it either.
Surely my previous comment, was a comment on the quality of photography presented?
But if I must, in order to fit within the rules of what is an acceptable critical response: The photos are poorly composed, lots of red eye and bad use of flash resulting from using a compact camera. Try using an SLR with a low light lens, 24mm, getting closer to your subject. Go out and try again with another event involving people.
You think a point and shoot is going to give you that bokeh? I want one!!!
I used a 7D with a 70-200 f/2.8L. If you took the time to look at the exif you would have seen that. Problem was, it was almost pitch black, the only lens I had with me and only on camera flash. I wasn't going for art, I was just quickly documenting what happened as I had all of 10 minutes to get some shots before the cops made everyone disperse (hence the title of the thread, I got there late). If I gave a **** I would have done photoshop work to fix the pictures but I don't. I'm a professional editor and quite handy with PS but quite frankly didn't feel the need. I'm not claiming to be a photojournalist. I just wanted to share that people were gathering.
I also could have turned red eye reduction on and used flash compensation, but again, I was in a hurry and didn't care.
Photography isn't always about art. Look at some of my other shots in this forum and you will see I actually know what I am doing.
And PS... the MLK quote wasn't correct. You came in here for a political debate the first time and that was it.
