Hi, thanks for the comment which is actually pretty deeply meaningful, to me.
I post photos on ADVrider forum’s photography thread also.
When I posted this photo,
Mill Valley-Sausalito Path by
T K, on Flickr
One guy commented like this.
“<SNIP>
(The photo) looks like
bad WB. The sunlit areas don't look sunny at all. I'd warm it up a bit and boost the saturation.
What were the WB settings for those? “
He didn’t read my description, or rather, ignored.
(Also, I DIDN'T ask an advice how to "correct" photo.}
“That photo (Mill Valley-Sausalito Path) was taken at around 4PM.( You probably missed that part?)
The sunlight at that time isn't "warmer hue" at all. It is still blue-ish white light. Not like warmer, orange-ish light in the morning or near sunset.
And, this particular area (Mill Valley, CA) is surrounded by hills and fogs, it's almost always "cool or cold".
At the time this photo was taken, it was chilly (despite the fact that we're in the middle of August and this is in sunny California
)
So, the photo looks "cold", "isolated" "inhuman" on purpose.
I didn't want this photo to have "nice and warm" feeling.
He insisted, saying
“From my digital perspective, looking for accuracy:
(That Mill Valley-Sausalito path photo) feels like real life would have been warmer.” (Despite that fact that I stated it WASN'T WARM AT ALL.)
After reading this post, I just decided to ignore this guy.
Digital sensor does NOT accurately reproduce what our eyes see.
NEVER.
Him chasing the “perfection” is one thing. (And it’s totally fine.)
But, commenting “BAD” on someone’s work, just because it doesn’t match with his preference is, well, I don’t know what to say.
It is like commenting on Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dali’s picture,
“That picture’s perspective is BAD, this picture’s figure proportion is off, it should be this way.”
Some people have very poor vocabulary. (So they tend to call everything that doesn’t please them as “bad”.)
Some people know how much they know, so they start preaching / criticizing others, but they don’t know how much stuff out there that they don’t know…
