Photo Critique Guidelines **PLEASE READ**

If posting or critiquing a picture in this forum please note the guidelines below.

• Supply technical information along with your image, such as aperture, shutter speed, length of lens, and ISO used. Indicate if using a camera on auto-everything.

• Acknowledge a fellow member's critique of your image.

• Don't become defensive once a fellow member has taken his/her valuable time and effort to supply you with a critique.

• Avoid commenting on the beauty or lack thereof of the subject of the image, and put all your energies toward commenting on the photograph's technical and artistic qualities.

• Post only images for which you really desire critique, and not flood the forum with too many images at once.

• Avoid being vague about what you want critiqued in an image. Give critiquers a hint as to what areas you are having questions about.

• Understand that anyone is qualified to give critique... since in real life most of the viewers of our images are not "qualified" either, yet their opinions are still valid.

• Avoid giving non-constructive critiques. Try to make critiques meaningful to the photographer, so that they can know why the image works or doesn't work.

• Understand that critiquers need not know how to fix a problem they notice in an image in order to mention it... simply identifying it may be enough.