What's "homerism?" ..... Mmmm, donuts!
Boosterism is easy to sniff out regardless of one's apparent enthusiasm for their photographic choices ... it's when one justifies their decisions by crapping on other people's decisions, backed up by a shady opinion stated it terms of scientific fact. Starting the article with a caveat doesn't absolve the writer of some sense that others are NOT dolts for the choices they made, as implied.
As if everyone else is inferior to the writer if they didn't make the same choices. Boosterism is boosting one's self-worth on the shoulders of other lesser beings. Just state your love and enthusiasm for the work you do, and why the gear choices help you do it. Enough said.
So, it did read like boosterism to me with a bunch of boring, over-used bromides peppered in to get heads nodding in agreement ... all punctuated by a phalanx of perfectly executed, uninspired derivative images.
Perhaps Mr. Dubovoy would do better without any of that gear, or writing about it, and expand his creative horizons to actually create something rather than mimicking it with perfect tools? Obviously, we could all benefit from such thinking, but then we all aren't implying we're God's gift either.
Personally, I'd rather look at a thought provoking image my friend Irakly shot with a P&S than one of his antiseptic shots done with a $50,000 rig. So, that bromide, while boringly repetitive, is true ... the gear doesn't make the photographer, and better gear doesn't change that.
He has his opinion, I have mine ... and that is it in a nutshell ... like it or not.
-Marc
Oh, BTW, I have an S2 ... so it's not a case of "gear offense". In fact he makes me want to send it back :ROTFL:
Boosterism is easy to sniff out regardless of one's apparent enthusiasm for their photographic choices ... it's when one justifies their decisions by crapping on other people's decisions, backed up by a shady opinion stated it terms of scientific fact. Starting the article with a caveat doesn't absolve the writer of some sense that others are NOT dolts for the choices they made, as implied.
As if everyone else is inferior to the writer if they didn't make the same choices. Boosterism is boosting one's self-worth on the shoulders of other lesser beings. Just state your love and enthusiasm for the work you do, and why the gear choices help you do it. Enough said.
So, it did read like boosterism to me with a bunch of boring, over-used bromides peppered in to get heads nodding in agreement ... all punctuated by a phalanx of perfectly executed, uninspired derivative images.
Perhaps Mr. Dubovoy would do better without any of that gear, or writing about it, and expand his creative horizons to actually create something rather than mimicking it with perfect tools? Obviously, we could all benefit from such thinking, but then we all aren't implying we're God's gift either.
Personally, I'd rather look at a thought provoking image my friend Irakly shot with a P&S than one of his antiseptic shots done with a $50,000 rig. So, that bromide, while boringly repetitive, is true ... the gear doesn't make the photographer, and better gear doesn't change that.
He has his opinion, I have mine ... and that is it in a nutshell ... like it or not.
-Marc
Oh, BTW, I have an S2 ... so it's not a case of "gear offense". In fact he makes me want to send it back :ROTFL: