How do I tell someone they have the artistic flare of a housebrick?

[Threelegs]

Guy I know has taken up photography and keeps posting woeful pics to SM. Do I tell him they are bad? Suggest a book for him to read? He truly has no idea what he is doing.

I don't want to hurt his feelings, he's the super sensitive type and I'm not known for being in touch with my caring side normally.

Thanks in advance.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

Do I tell him they are bad?

no

 

[Exe Gesis]

Guy I know has taken up photography and keeps posting woeful pics to SM. Do I tell him they are bad? Suggest a book for him to read? He truly has no idea what he is doing.

I don't want to hurt his feelings, he's the super sensitive type and I'm not known for being in touch with my caring side normally.

Thanks in advance.

Agree with the Banana person. Just let them be happy doing what they do. The problem is if they HOUND you or plead to please tell them honestly. Then you're in a world of hurt my friend! Best to trapeze the answer. Tho personally I don't like that approach. I think being open and direct and straightforward is always the best policy. No matter what. You don't HAVE TO be harsh in being honest tho.

 

[BALKAN]

Post some pics here

 

[Borry]

Guy I know has taken up photography and keeps posting woeful pics to SM. Do I tell him they are bad? Suggest a book for him to read? He truly has no idea what he is doing.

I don't want to hurt his feelings, he's the super sensitive type and I'm not known for being in touch with my caring side normally.

Thanks in advance.

Post some of the photos.

 

[BALKAN]

But yeah I don't see the need to tell him his work is s**t. If it's a new hobby he's picked up then he'll improve, if he's already delusional and is trying to sell his work then he'll get a reality check soon enough.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Unless he asks for your opinion, don't give it. Let him live his life.

 

[Keys]

I think you're being unfair to house bricks

 

[Richard Cranium]

If you're a good friend you'll let someone else, preferably a potential love interest, tell him, avoiding any damage to your friendship but still giving you a smug sense of satisfaction in knowing that you were right and that your friend is truly horrible at something.

You could also then parlay this into sleeping with said potential love interest, using your friend's lack of artistic flare as a topic to bond over.

 

[the_interloper]

 

[Gough]

Ask him if he's trying to be conceptual, or avante garde. They're usually synonyms for s**t.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Maybe you have s**t taste in art

 

[Silent Alarm]

Also absolute troll here. No one has threelegs. Unless he means a utensil which is pretty weird.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

 

[SugarShane]

You could start by spelling flair correctly.

 

[Shane Hird]

Here's a pic I took on holidays over xmas...Cabarita beach NSW.

Rate my skills..be kind or just come out and say it's s**t. I don't mind.

 

[Faithful Hawk]

View attachment 213120 Here's a pic I took on holidays over xmas...Cabarita beach NSW.

Rate my skills..be kind or just come out and say it's s**t. I don't mind.

Did you take that with a Nokia??

 

[Exe Gesis]

View attachment 213120 Here's a pic I took on holidays over xmas...Cabarita beach NSW.

Rate my skills..be kind or just come out and say it's s**t. I don't mind.

It's not a professional type of photograph. Just the usual happy-snap taken. But that's also because the photographer isn't trying for an artistic/stylistic photograph. It's a tourist photo. If the photographer was determined/inclined to take a more serious effort, they would've traveled down closer to the beach, probably layed down on their stomach, played around with the F-stop and then taken another 10 or so photos at other angles.

 

[Shane Hird]

Did you take that with a Nokia??

i phone 4 pano shot.

 

[Shane Hird]

It's not a professional type of photograph. Just the usual happy-snap taken. But that's also because the photographer isn't trying for an artistic/stylistic photograph. It's a tourist photo. If the photographer was determined/inclined to take a more serious effort, they would've traveled down closer to the beach, probably layed down on their stomach, played around with the F-stop and then taken another 10 or so photos at other angles.

Aww jeez thanks for the big review gg. Such a nice bloke you

 

[Bomberboyokay]

You could start by spelling flair correctly.

It's hard to tell what are sincere "help please" threads and what are attempts at lulz threads.

 

[the_interloper]

It's hard to tell what are sincere "help please" threads and what are attempts at lulz threads.

Would be hard for someone like you to tell that anyway.

 

[Plugger35]

View attachment 213120 Here's a pic I took on holidays over xmas...Cabarita beach NSW.

Rate my skills..be kind or just come out and say it's s**t. I don't mind.

Would've been a better shot at sunset but they don't have those in NSW, well not on the ocean anyway.

One of the great things about WA is seeing the sunsets on the ocean.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Would be hard for someone like you to tell that anyway.

 

[Shane Sheridan]

View attachment 213120 Here's a pic I took on holidays over xmas...Cabarita beach NSW.

Rate my skills..be kind or just come out and say it's s**t. I don't mind.

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