ARS BETA: a website for photo critiques

Wednesday 3 October 2018, 11:22 by Michelle Peeters | 4,812 views | 2 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Are you looking for a place to receive constructive criticism and feedback on your photos, outside all the popular social media platforms and photo-sharing sites? Then ARS BETA might be exactly what you are looking for.

ARS, which stands for Art Revolution Society, is a service developed by street photographer Eric Kim. It is primarily a place for photographers to receive meaningful criticism from other photographers.

After you have uploaded your photo to the site via desktop or mobile, the algorithm randomly and anonymously shares the image with other users in the community, and these users are asked to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the photos.

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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2 comments

martinphili wrote on Wednesday 3 October 2018 at 18:09 | reply
Why did all those photography forums actually die a quiet death?
Translated from Dutch.

ErikvanRosmalen wrote on Thursday 4 October 2018 at 08:41 | reply
Weak spot of this medium (and, to follow up on what Martin points out above, of pretty much all those internet forums): the value of criticism is largely determined by who gives it.

Because:
Nice that your family thinks your photo is fantastic. But what does that REALLY say? That your family likes you, nothing more.

What if I get 'anonymous' comments that my portraits are too 'posed', what does that say then? That the anonymous critic themselves likes street photography?

And conversely, a critic should also be able to place an image in context. Is the subject too central? That may be part of a series or of the photographer's signature.

Getting criticism is nice, but you do have to be able to assess its value.
Translated from Dutch.

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