Is it so wrong to state your mind?
In the Imagekind forum, people were removing peoples images and altering them without permission. Now I have been told this is fair and that I should not have rocked the boat. HOWEVER, it is NOT fair and I should have said something…. the reason?
Comments and critique is excellent for everyone. It is how we learn and grow. Without comment and review we stay blunted and think what we are doing is the right way to go…but part of the teaching and learning is learning technique.
In my lessons I teach here for Paint Shop Pro, I take photos, MY OWN PHOTOS, and I teach technique. What people choose to do with the technique is up to them. I never presume to take an image someone has done and alter it. I never have, It teaches nothing. Oh look what I have done……
To teach someone technique, I use my own pictures and show in detail how to change the image to suit what is needed. I then hope the student will take his/her image and do the same with that and thereby change their own image to suit themselves.
Point two about that thread on IK forum. It was begun to SHOW off ones work they had recently put up. It wasn’t put up as an exercise in tuition ro review-mastership. It was put up as an exhibition on one thread of latest work. Like a huge marketing, advertising thread. An excellent way to bring all the latest stuff to one place. Show people where you are up to in your art life.
Since I have asked for my images to not be altered… since I have rocked the boat, I have put up 3-4 images and I obviously have been sent to Coventry by most of the IK members. Why? Because I stated a belief that was shared by at least one other person whose work HAD been altered? Even the IK staff felt the same way about the removal of the images so why have I been ostracised.
I am not even going to put this on IK as it will be attacked again, but this is my blog and as such I feel I can use it to display my hurt at the reaction other people have to my being honest!
