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11/06/2014 03:43:38 PM · #76 |
Originally posted by ubique:
Look. Look at it another way. If you're creeping up down up on your average score by mean little increments, where are you headed with your photography? Better to go down in flames nine times out of ten, if the tenth is an unexpected triumph: a new way for you. That's what progress is really about, isn't it? Crashing and burning, and then soaring? One soar is worth a score of pyres. If you're worried about protecting your average score, your wish is very likely to be granted ... and you'll be reliably average. A dismal fate. Buy some golf clubs instead. At least you'll reliably win a frozen chicken every Saturday. |
Thanks for the reminder. Anyway, after as many challenges as I have entered my average has so much inertia that it barely moves no matter how good or bad my next challenge entry scores. I need to take more risks and hope to occasionally soar. |
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11/06/2014 03:50:07 PM · #77 |
Originally posted by ubique:
Look. Look at it another way. If you're creeping up down up on your average score by mean little increments, where are you headed with your photography? Better to go down in flames nine times out of ten, if the tenth is an unexpected triumph: a new way for you. That's what progress is really about, isn't it? Crashing and burning, and then soaring? One soar is worth a score of pyres. If you're worried about protecting your average score, your wish is very likely to be granted ... and you'll be reliably average. A dismal fate. Buy some golf clubs instead. At least you'll reliably win a frozen chicken every Saturday.
ETA: on the other hand, my own 2K score is mid-5s which is ... my average. Fore! |
Don't discount the value in the process of continual refinement of one's art. |
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11/06/2014 05:12:48 PM · #78 |
Originally posted by MikeO:
Originally posted by Tiny:
I think I will comment 50% of these puppies.
I have voted them all and will no doubt adjust my scores as I comment. |
What are you currently charging? Is it still £5 for a 8 and £10 for a 10?
P.S. I should still be in credit with that £50 I dropped you back in September. |
Yes Mike the rates remain unchanged till next Spring.
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11/06/2014 05:57:58 PM · #79 |
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11/06/2014 08:27:36 PM · #80 |
Originally posted by Tiny:
Originally posted by MikeO:
Originally posted by Tiny:
I think I will comment 50% of these puppies.
I have voted them all and will no doubt adjust my scores as I comment. |
What are you currently charging? Is it still £5 for a 8 and £10 for a 10?
P.S. I should still be in credit with that £50 I dropped you back in September. |
Yes Mike the rates remain unchanged till next Spring. |
Good to hear!
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11/07/2014 01:48:42 PM · #81 |
Wow! That is all I can say about the images in this challenge. The new image size really makes such a huge difference.
You have rated 264 of 264 images (100%) in this challenge.
You have given an average score of 6.7045.
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11/07/2014 02:17:23 PM · #82 |
You have rated 91 of 264 images (34%) in this challenge.
You have commented on 91 images (34%) in this challenge.
I am guessing that my random order is giving me the bad photos first. From the 91 that I have looked at about 1/2 are decent photos of about a 5 with maybe 1/4 above a 5 and the last 1/4 below 5 and pushing the 1 area. Maybe I am being to hard but this is a challenge where you can enter pretty much any photo you have ever taken. I kind of expect the quality to be top notch and not what looks like it's a snapshot from a phone. |
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11/07/2014 03:13:57 PM · #83 |
Votes: 76
Views: 133
Avg Vote: 6.3289
Comments: 3
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11/07/2014 03:48:16 PM · #84 |
Originally posted by Kobba:
You have rated 91 of 264 images (34%) in this challenge.
You have commented on 91 images (34%) in this challenge.
I am guessing that my random order is giving me the bad photos first. From the 91 that I have looked at about 1/2 are decent photos of about a 5 with maybe 1/4 above a 5 and the last 1/4 below 5 and pushing the 1 area. Maybe I am being to hard but this is a challenge where you can enter pretty much any photo you have ever taken. I kind of expect the quality to be top notch and not what looks like it's a snapshot from a phone. |
anything you have not already entered, where you have a valid (unaltered) original.
that narrows things down for a lot of us, and of what's left, sometimes "looks like a snapshot" are all that there are because we're hobbyists and not professionals.
just saying... |
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11/07/2014 03:57:32 PM · #85 |
I had a lot of photos in my archive that looked like snapshots but had some meaning to me or that I really liked for whatever reason, but I went with one that obviously took effort and it seems to be getting a reasonable score.
No idea what I'll submit if we do a best-of-2014 challenge though... probably a snapshot. |
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11/07/2014 04:02:43 PM · #86 |
Originally posted by RyanW:
Originally posted by Kobba:
You have rated 91 of 264 images (34%) in this challenge.
You have commented on 91 images (34%) in this challenge.
I am guessing that my random order is giving me the bad photos first. From the 91 that I have looked at about 1/2 are decent photos of about a 5 with maybe 1/4 above a 5 and the last 1/4 below 5 and pushing the 1 area. Maybe I am being to hard but this is a challenge where you can enter pretty much any photo you have ever taken. I kind of expect the quality to be top notch and not what looks like it's a snapshot from a phone. |
anything you have not already entered, where you have a valid (unaltered) original.
that narrows things down for a lot of us, and of what's left, sometimes "looks like a snapshot" are all that there are because we're hobbyists and not professionals.
just saying... |
i agree with Kobba, a lot of the shots were underwhelming. im giving the hobbyists hobby-level votes, and the pros pro-level votes. |
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11/07/2014 04:16:02 PM · #87 |
| Just snuck back over 6 with two nice comments. I didn't think it would ever get there after dropping to 5.8. |
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11/07/2014 04:16:38 PM · #88 |
Originally posted by RyanW:
anything you have not already entered, where you have a valid (unaltered) original. |
Is one reason I always shoot and keep my RAW files. It also helps when new software comes out that is able to do things that previously was not possible. Storage is so cheap now that there really is no reason not keep unaltered originals, RAW or JPG (how ever you shoot). |
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11/07/2014 08:08:54 PM · #89 |
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11/07/2014 08:53:08 PM · #90 |
Only if half the entries were even half this good, unfortunately they are not. |
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11/08/2014 12:57:44 AM · #91 |
Back to the scores
Votes: 89
Views: 137
Avg Vote: 6.3820
Comments: 4
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11/08/2014 07:42:02 AM · #92 |
Votes: 82
Views: 136
Avg Vote: 5.8049
Comments: 4
You have rated 257 of 263 images (98%) in this challenge.
You have commented on 23 images (9%) in this challenge.
I'm hoping my score will not drop under 5.8, but I don't think that is realistic :) However, I have received 4 lovely and constructive comments that will keep my spirit up regardless. |
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11/08/2014 10:18:49 AM · #93 |
Votes: 87
Views: 148
Avg Vote: 6.3793
Comments: 3 |
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11/08/2014 10:23:52 AM · #94 |
Originally posted by ShaneBlake:
Votes: 51
Avg Vote: 6.5294
Comments: 1 |
Votes: 84
Views: 134
Avg Vote: 6.6071
Comments: 3
I certainly like the direction... |
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11/08/2014 11:31:02 AM · #95 |
You have rated 63 of 263 images (24%) in this challenge.
You have commented on 63 of 263 images (24%) in this challenge.
You have given an average score of 6.2857.
Will continue later |
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11/08/2014 01:23:20 PM · #96 |
I am right behind you Shaneblake
Votes: 80
Views: 140
Avg Vote: 6.5750
Comments: 5
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11/08/2014 02:09:20 PM · #97 |
Originally posted by GeorgesBogaert:
I am right behind you Shaneblake
Votes: 80
Views: 140
Avg Vote: 6.5750
Comments: 5 |
And I am just a smidge ahead of both of you... |
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11/08/2014 03:28:36 PM · #98 |
| Slightly over a six right now, and following the same pattern my free study did. It won't finish over six. |
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11/08/2014 06:50:43 PM · #99 |
Originally posted by LN13:
Slightly over a six right now, and following the same pattern my free study did. It won't finish over six. |
You maybe pleasantly surprised. There might be a last moment flurry of positive votes near the end. It has happened to me more than once.
I changed my entry the day before voting started & an automated message said that I should put in a larger photograph as smaller ones get marked down. When voting started I was in the low 5's for quite some time & I was thinking why didn't I stick to the original photograph?
But now
Votes 92
Views 146
Avg Vote 6.1196
Comments 4
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11/08/2014 07:44:30 PM · #100 |
| The Sunday voters have started early. |
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