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03/15/2013 09:49:02 AM · #1 |
This thread is dedicated to comments and posts that you find worth quoting. The comments can be ones given to your own image or to others.
There are no rules, but it would be good to include some context to the comment and post, such as the image it was given to or the thread it was posted in. |
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03/15/2013 09:49:51 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by ubique:
I really do like this because it's an anti-photography photograph that celebrates photography. Everything's 'wrong' about it of course, except that it isn't wrong at all! It is a photograph about the photograph. Thank you. 10. |
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03/15/2013 10:06:58 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
you're some kind of twisted genius of the banal |
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03/15/2013 10:13:16 AM · #4 |
image title - Waiting
Originally posted by posthumous:
... for chocolate ice cream under 100 calories? good light and blur effect
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03/15/2013 10:13:30 AM · #5 |
I always enjoyed  The Resplendent Snippycat comments
Comment:
Nice lighting, and I like this chap's face. In a totally non-homosexual way, of course.
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Not really bokeh, but an excellent photog none the less. Or more or less. Or none of more or less. But then less is more, so none the more is less. Or is more less than none? Well time for some chloroform and ritalin. |
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03/15/2013 10:15:49 AM · #6 |
Here's one by  blindjustice on a recent entry. It was my only comment during voting and it kept me going, so to speak :)
"There is a stillness, a separateness to this shot which defies scale and makes it intriguing."
Note that he doesn't actually say that he liked it - I chose to think he did and, more importantly, that he had studied and appreciated it.
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03/15/2013 10:18:01 AM · #7 |
This is one of my favorite shots that I submitted out of all the challenges I have entered.
It didn't do well at all but I guess I just look at it differently.
So when a great photog. like Paul see's even a little bit of what I see in the same image (especially one of mine) it's
a very good feeling and very gratifying. To me he's the best commenter on DPC and an all around class act.
Thanks again for the honest and constructive comments you give.
Comment by Paul:
(Better late than never but) I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.
Positives: Great catch in mores ways than one! Great silhouettes and a great onward view of the Statue of Liberty. You are right it offers a simple (but effective) story.
Critical stuff: The stuff you already know - still wonky horizon and rather flat tones (your image carries it though)
Overall: I like it!
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03/15/2013 11:59:52 AM · #8 |
I submitted this as my art 2012 image because i liked it, but mostly i was hoping to get a comment or two from the PH crowd, and Don nailed my thoughts on the image and why i submitted it.
Originally posted by posthumous:
I like how this pulls out of reality. also charmed by the title. |
The idea in why i left the visible deck was that the flower was supposed to take you from what is obvious reality to a place of mystery and unknown, to draw you out of reality and transport you to the infinite.
Thanks for seeing this in my image Don, it really does mean a lot to me that you saw my vision :) |
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03/15/2013 01:02:46 PM · #9 |
A highly recommended thread that started off with this:
Originally posted by ubique:
A quote from writer Neil Gaiman:
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
He was referring to literary criticism, but I think the same is true of photographic criticism. Ultimately, a comment of "This doesn't work for me" is of more practical use to you than another comment detailing all of the many ways the commenter would have made the photograph better.
Unless, of course, you wish to learn how to take someone else's photographs. |
Message edited by author 2013-03-15 13:43:42. |
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03/15/2013 01:10:23 PM · #10 |
To echo RyanW:
Melethia nailed my thoughts on my 2012 art image:
Originally posted by Melethia:
Watercolor, interrupted by flight. |
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03/15/2013 01:30:40 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
ok now I'm pissed because you stole my brown... |
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03/15/2013 01:48:10 PM · #12 |
One of my favorite comments I've ever received:
From timfythetoo
"I wouldn't guess this as being a jmritz image. But if it were my personal image then I would be feeling very confident in reaching the first aspect of the challenge - create an image that speaks to you first. Now you may have failed completely in the second aspect because for me, as the viewer, you have not caused uncertainty or indecision in me at all. Nope - not one bit. There wasn't even the slightest of moments that I did not enjoy this image. I find this completely lovely as it dances around. The standout image in this challenge, IMHO. Thank you. "
Message edited by author 2013-03-15 13:49:39. |
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03/15/2013 02:28:54 PM · #13 |
One (of many) of  tnun comments
Yes, sometimes I think I will take all my white things with me when I go to the crazy house.
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03/15/2013 02:40:23 PM · #14 |
I got a laugh out of this one from Snaffles
I thought it meant beware, cows may be about to mate with sheep!
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03/15/2013 02:51:21 PM · #15 |
One of several from perhaps my most misunderstood photo ... 
Originally posted by bucket:
To stop people and ask them to think...
ahhh such a dangerouos position to take...:)
I love when someone creates an opportunity for me to learn... |
ETA: In looking back over it, I find the difference between the comments made during the voting, and afterwards, when people had a chance to read the notes and understand the relationship to the challenge ("Dr. Seuss"), especially interesting.
Message edited by author 2013-03-15 15:29:26. |
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03/15/2013 03:05:57 PM · #16 |
Comments like this! from tate make it all worth while.
Beautiful ... the title is funny in its ambiguity ... like "Hey, the cat's on the table let's take a picture" or "Hey, that freekin' cat's on my table ... we're getting rid of her once and fer all" ... or "We've been trying to ge the cat on that table for years ... finally she did it" .... or "The cat's on the table with a silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon" ... or maybe you just laquered the table and the cat is stuck ... or maybe ... um .... I think that's all I got for now ...
it could mean so many things but more importantly the lighting is so great and this is the wonder of cats ... they like warmth and are willing to sleep in the bright sunlight to get it. Great cat / table and pic. The composition sucks though ... LOL!!!! just threw a curve to see if you were reading ... and you were!!! OH NO!!! just kidding about the composition - but I would have cropped a tad differently to be honest.
PS: this is the third longest comment I've ever left and the first where I jokingly said that something sucked. LOL ROFLMAOAPTPWMF!!!! 8
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03/15/2013 06:36:07 PM · #17 |
My favorite comment:
"Awesome job. Sure, he's about to ski backwards off the peak, but he's prepared, with his rope and radish helmet. Honestly a radish helmet might be the safest of all, as who the heck would eat them? Nice poles, great skis. Awesome job on this."
from bohemka on this:
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03/15/2013 06:43:13 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by mitalapo:
Ultimately, a comment of "This doesn't work for me" is of more practical use to you than another comment detailing all of the many ways the commenter would have made the photograph better.
Unless, of course, you wish to learn how to take someone else's photographs. |
I would wish if the photographer was Ansell Adams or Henri Cartier-Bresson. There is nothing wrong with receiving instructions and copying masters. That's a very common method of teaching. And DPC is a learning site after all. |
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03/15/2013 07:46:12 PM · #19 |
From K10Dguy:
Purdy sat there, putting up with the indignity, the injustice, the humiliation.
She was to be married off to a bulldog, named Ralph, of all things. Ralph, she thought, HAH! Named after the sound of his bark most like. Humans could be such cruel creatures. After all we do for them. We love them, we play with them, we let them think they are the masters, and for what?
So that Purdy could sit here in a bridal veil for a photo and be married off to a bulldog named Ralph.
And the kicker? Purdy wasn't even female. Would it kill the owner to lift his leg and check?
Purdy sat there, and sighed, and put up with the indignity. |
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03/15/2013 07:48:45 PM · #20 |
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03/15/2013 10:39:22 PM · #21 |
Comment by Melethia:
The floating head guy! The others are not exactly sure they want to be witness to the event, so they're not watching. In reality, the only watchers are the plants, and you'll notice they're paying VERY close attention to both the bodyless guy, and the strolling teens. I think the teens are gonna be history....
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03/15/2013 10:58:37 PM · #22 |
| LOL! I still love the floating head... Since I apparently have early onset senility, I don't remember most of the comments I leave, so it's fun to go back and see what I wrote sometimes! And for me, the true joy of DPC is enjoying what other people see. |
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03/16/2013 01:03:33 AM · #23 |
My first FS got but one comment while in voting, but that was from K10Dguy and was very much appreciated.
They came out of the water, running, screaming, crying. They ran to their mother and sister, trying desperately to escape the waves, trying desperately to escape the thing that was after them.
"It's coming! It's after us! Help!"
One boy fell as he reached what he regarded as safety, screaming for his mother to get him away, get him away from the water, from that thing.
But she didn't listen. She thought they were playing. She thought they were being silly, foolish boys.
That was when it came out of the waves and took them all.
Message edited by author 2013-03-16 01:21:26.
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03/16/2013 01:06:42 AM · #24 |
This one also from K10DGuy for this:
At the end of the world, at the end of time, one man was destined to try and save humanity. Using a new technology that had never been tested, he was to return to the past and try to find a way to stave off the inevitable. To somehow find a way to cheat fate and continue the human race past their slotted time in the universe.
Now came the moment. Now came his chance to fulfill that destiny. With a final cry of determination, he ran towards the shimmering wall that divided the now with the then, and leapt into his past, and his future.
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03/16/2013 07:10:26 AM · #25 |
 by gyaban
Originally posted by daisydavid
... I immediately thought of this  as a source, with all due modesty to Mrs C, something that even Einstein himself identified as a crucial part of his science. Not religion, but the spirituality of the mind. Given that, I wont be urging you for top job in the Vatican ;)
ETA: recent events at the Vatican confirm that John's advice was seriously considered.
Message edited by author 2013-03-16 07:37:01. |
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