Everybody handles criticism differently - both give and take. If you're going to put your business (your work or your critiques) out there for all to see you have to be ready to handle an infinite number of types of responses. The galleries to me are a vast sea of unknown people who may or may not be worth listening to and/or viewing works created thereby. I don't put too much stock in what gets said there unless what is said is obviously of value (which is of course subjective, but I think I have a decent sense of this that works for me). For instance, a "your lighting sucks comment" is nearly valueless, while a "try using a spotlight at position x of intensity y with hue z to match the light source in your background image" comment has value. Unfortunately the former type of comments outweigh the latter type of comments by a great deal. Both of course are completely outnumbered by the "it's the best thing I've ever seen" comments. Thus I hardly ever look at the galleries, I'm probably missing out, but I just don't have time to look through everything. I generally don't put up comments, I don't feel qualified.

Posting work in the galleries hoping for productive feedback/criticism is a losing proposition. If I really want criticism I post the image in this forum and ask for it. I've done it before and it's been extremely productive. I figure if people really want to improve their works they'd do the same. The gallery is just a free image posting site at best, an ego stroking ponzi scheme at worst. Critique there at your own risk.

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Message edited on: 05/19/2005 13:17