grebeman
Old Codgers Group
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- Barrie
Not weird at all Andrew, after all in the camera clubs I've been a member of competition entries are judged blind, and yes you can sometimes recognise a style, and at other times you do get surprised. Your approach is objective and unbiassed, good idea.I know this may sound dumb, but wanted to share.
So, one of my favorite things is street photography. Capturing the scenes as well as looking at what others have captured.
Early on in my forum viewing days, I used to look at the street images and who took them. I soon realized that I biased toward to the ones I liked because of the people that took them and not purely on the image itself (both emotional response and technical merit).
To keep myself from that "I'm going to like this one because my 'friend' took it" syndrome, I now scroll through an entire page - only looking at the image and responding to it on the merits of the image alone before going back and seeing who took it.
I like how sometimes I can tell who took it by the style in which it was captured and other times I'm shocked or surprised (normally in a good way) at who took some different ones too.
Anyone else go into the view "blind"? And yes, I know I'm weird.
Barrie