E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
Gentlemen, PLEASE!
All of this is serving no purpose or doing any good.
Verbal brawls are only turning this forum into nothing more than an online urinating match.
I am not playing "cop" or " schoolyard hall monitor, just a concerned peaceful member requesting peace and decorum.
Thank you!
I read your post. You are right.
However, I am upset over the mischaracterization of my posts. Again, here is how it started. I see no problem, as "edit" does not include using illustrative lines or even cropping to clarify an idea. However, I was wrong in missing the fine print, Graham's personal info, which included "marks." I acknowledged that, and agreed not to do anything to his photos.
All the after, AFTER, he initiated the confrontation. Here is my final post, accusing Graham and other of defamation, and the reasons for that claim. I hope for open minds. This has become, for me, character and reputation protection.
---------Last posts between Graham and me, regarding defamation-------------------------
artBob (a regular here) (online) Joined: May 5, 2012 Posts: 4189 Loc: Near Chicago
Graham Smith wrote:
A Professor eh? Do you think that I hadn't already discovered that. Would you prefer me to tip my hat, tug my forelock, bow deeply or prostrate my self at your feet? I would draw the line at washing your feet.
PS: you can try to insult, denigrate me, or whatever as much as you like because I just don't give a tinker's cuss.
I replied
"Again, irrelevancy. No, perhaps you are projecting when you mentioned an expectation of "tipping your hat." It should be clear to you that I was backgrounding my bona fides in regards to skeptical and objective thinking. I don't like how anything PERCEIVED BY YOU AS UNFLATTERING, even though a compliment and some questions (see my initial post in this mess below) becomes a victim cry against the injustice of it all. And you dare, dare, to denigrate the courtesy of others.
The post that started it all, apparently:
artBob (a regular here) (online) Joined: May 5, 2012 Posts: 4188 Loc: Near Chicago
Graham Smith wrote:
The framing isn't the best, the boy's feet are on the bottom, but it was shot with a Leica with framing lines in the viewfinder and they are not easy in a fast moving shot
I replied:
"Actually, the composition seems fine, a radial, as shown with the structural lines in the illustration.. I do wonder, however, what caused the strange perspective distortion of what should be slightly converging lines, as in the illustration."
To which you replied:
"Nov 7, 2019 15:39:00 #
Graham Smith (a regular here) (online) Joined: Jun 12, 2013 Posts: 6859 Loc: Cambridgeshire UK
artBob wrote:
Actually, the composition seems fine, a radial, as shown with the structural lines in the illustration.. I do wonder, however, what caused the strange perspective distortion of what should be slightly converging lines, as in the illustration.
Here we go again. Let's call it lens distortion and be done with it.
I will add that if you edit, draw your lines on or in any way mark my pictures I will cease posting in here.
It is against the section rules.
Nov 7, 2019 16:15:21 #
artBob (a regular here) (online) Joined: May 5, 2012 Posts: 4188 Loc: Near Chicago
Graham Smith wrote:
Here we go again. Let's call it lens distortion and be done with it.
I will add that if you edit, draw your lines on or in any way mark my pictures I will cease posting in here.
It is against the section rules.
Tot which I replied:
"So sorry you feel that way. Threatening others over what you perceive as my indiscretions seems unfair. I will not respond anymore to your photos. I mistakenly thought that you, like me, were a teacher, and would like to pass on knowledge, ascribing to Fair Use, understanding the difference between it and editing. Too bad you cannot answer the questions, as I would think others would find them helpful, you being so respected."
Defend yourself from your defamation of me.
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