I should not comment because my English should be the worst one here.
However, I would like to give my opinion as I'm the one of English is my
second language.
I would think depends on the subject, if I wish to tell someone what I did,
then I'll use active voice. For example, I wish to emphasis the picture was
taken my me, I'll say "I took the picture". However, if the subject is the
photo, wherever I took it, I used what lens, film etc., I'll use passive
voice .................... I don't know the concept is right or wrong. I
just concern the grammar is correct or wrong :p
Maybe, I'm not sure, English speakers would like to use active voice? Or
active voice is correct? Most of time I wrote a sentence with passive voice
in Word, it always suggests me use active voice.
It's a interest topic to let me know how to use English correctly :-)
Cheers,
Michael
On 23 December 2015 at 15:18, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chaps and chapesses
>
> Why do so many people use the Passive Voice when describing how they took
> their shot? Virtually no one writes, “I took this with my field camera and
> 10mm ƒ64 lens.” Most people use, “This shot was taken with a half-frame
> Oly with 600mm ƒ2 lens and processed in LightRoom with a bit of help from
> Topaz Clarity.”
>
> Are they being coy or modest? Does writing that way make them feel as if
> someone else took the shot – perhaps only to own up to the shot when they
> find that others like it? Or does it make them feel important to use what
> they perceive as a formal way of describing the shot?
>
> Well, the general principle that I have always adopted when writing is to
> use the Active Voice. It has always been accepted that that is the
> clearest way to express yourself. In the case of photography use of the
> Active Voice will ensure that all reading the description will know for
> certain who was responsible for that image.
>
> Chris
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