Comments on: Portrait Photography By Aistė Tiriūtė

By: Glenn Marsh

Glenn Marsh — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:38:00 +0000

FS is a free photo blog, you probably shouldn’t expect much, you have to take the good with the bad/average. They have to provide daily content, and they are covering the photo industry not the war in the middle east. How much mind blowing daily content do you think is happening in this industry? I just don’t see how complaining about something that you are not paying for has any value.

By: Edd Carlile

Edd Carlile — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:23:00 +0000

Jonathan pretty much hit the nail on the head with his final thoughts. (and not a nasty cruel word to be found in any of what he says)

By: Christian Blencke

Christian Blencke — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:15:00 +0000

I agree with comments that this has all been done before and we have all seen it many times, we are after all scouring the net every day for inspiration, so we are bound to see things over and over again, but even though i am not wowed by them, i think she has done a great job. Colours ad tone are nice, but i feel that there is very little interaction with the viewer and the models, but great work keep going and learning.

By: Jonathan Schertzer

Jonathan Schertzer — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:09:00 +0000

i’m not threatened, and i like her work. I just don’t feel like it should be showcased as above everyone else unless it is somehow above or particularly creative/interesting. Fstoppers used to be incredibly resourceful and original but with the new wave of authors its gotten repetitive, tired and 95% about gear reviews, contests, and photographer endorsements that go undeserved. I remember when i would get on fstoppers and be blow away by some of the stuff on here but now i get on and say “oh thats cool but its just a copy of what ever is on flickr explore” and “oh, if i like this, this, this, this this, this and this page on facebook i can be entered to win a contest, how exciting!”.

By: Glenn Marsh

Glenn Marsh — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:15:00 +0000

Very well stated.

By: Glenn Marsh

Glenn Marsh — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:13:00 +0000

Agreed. Only untalented, and boring photographers who lack creativity and vision are threaten by other photographers.

By: Oliver Oettli

Oliver Oettli — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 07:28:00 +0000

AND you now also completely lost all credit you may have had before! You’re a tough guy!

By: Jonathan Schertzer

Jonathan Schertzer — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:59:00 +0000

Also to anyone who thinks i am somehow inferring that i am making excuses for myself. I do quite well in my photography without the use of $3000 gear, or professional models, or vintage film looks, or full frame sensors and lenses shot wide open. oh, and I am younger than her by 3 years and don’t attend photo school.

http://carstenschertzer.co,m

By: Philip Weller

Philip Weller — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:08:00 +0000

With all due respect, I don’t see how your arguments support the notion that she is not good. What I see in your numbered points is 1) She chose her subjects well. 2) She chose her camera well. 3) She chose her lens well. 4) She has the courage to break the “rules”. 5) She chose her locations wisely and managed her light and shooting conditions perfectly. 6) She has the aesthetic sense to choose a look that matches her subject matter and expresses her creativity better than bland digital would. You can see these things as external all you’d like but the fact is that good photographers control and manipulate all the “external” factors, bending them to their creative will, whether it’s people, equipment, light, location, or software. She has done just that, admirably.

I’ve followed stories on this site since its beginning but somehow I just recently troubled to read some of the comments. The experience has been rather like lifting a familiar and well-trodden rug and finding something unpleasant underneath. I didn’t realize that so many jaded people congregated here. Photography is a creative endeavor. The photographer featured here might not be perfect in your eyes or mine, but she is creative and she’s endeavoring. Not everyone or everything has to be “original”, nor can they be. If we offered some considered and constructive criticism we would be helping her create something. Otherwise we’re wasting bandwidth and time that could be spent with our own cameras in our hands.

–Philip Weller

By: mmmarc

mmmarc — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:41:00 +0000

These series of artists that have been featured on Fstoppers are all producing the same, boring work. It’s all the same. It’s all boring. The photography is bad. It’s just all somewhat surreal, desaturated and/or split toned garbage you see on a million Tumblr pages shot with 50mm 1.4 or 1.8 lenses.