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01/14/2009 12:01:49 AM · #1 |
| How's up cooking some scores up with me? |
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01/14/2009 12:46:05 AM · #2 |
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01/14/2009 12:50:23 AM · #3 |
| 4 votes----6.75! Am I dreaming? |
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01/14/2009 02:12:08 AM · #4 |
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01/14/2009 02:21:26 AM · #5 |
Votes: 10
Views: 22
Avg Vote: 6.2000
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01/14/2009 02:25:36 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Lonni:
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Avg Vote: 6.2000
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equaliser perhaps? |
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01/14/2009 02:26:02 AM · #7 |
First 10 votes 6.8000...next 4 votes 5.5000....lol
Votes: 14
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Avg Vote: 6.4286 |
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01/14/2009 02:36:05 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by SoulMan1978:
Originally posted by Lonni:
Votes: 10
Views: 22
Avg Vote: 6.2000
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equaliser perhaps? |
Hmm.. maybe not - I'm sinking a bit now (6.08ish), and maybe Limerick is doing well in cooking too :)
ETA: Some Awesome person just gave me a 9 - Thank you!!
Votes: 13
Views: 25
Avg Vote: 6.3077
Comments: 0
Aw... they changed it to a 7 :(
Votes: 13
Views: 25
Avg Vote: 6.1538
Comments: 0
Message edited by author 2009-01-14 02:48:49. |
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01/14/2009 03:11:42 AM · #9 |
Well so far so good:
Votes: 15
Views: 26
Avg Vote: 5.8667
Comments: 0
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Long way to go though!
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01/14/2009 07:03:11 AM · #10 |
Are you kidding me?
Votes: 25
Views: 45
Avg Vote: 6.7200
Comments: 1
Twice in one week? I wasnt even going to enter mine and I get this score? Same as my Life score. I had to hit refresh and get my glasses just to make sure I was seeing right!
Lonni its going to be close in this one! Its early yet so I might go down but your score is good to! |
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01/14/2009 08:38:20 AM · #11 |
Were simmering nicely!
Votes: 33
Views: 58
Avg Vote: 6.3030
Comments: 1
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01/14/2009 08:44:18 AM · #12 |
Votes: 29
Views: 50
Avg Vote: 4.8276
Comments: 0
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 01/14/09 08:10 am
Its not looking good |
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01/14/2009 12:12:51 PM · #13 |
| It was so abysmal that it is too embarrassing to post. I had to shut off the scores because it was so depressing. Thought I was improving. |
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01/14/2009 12:25:17 PM · #14 |
| I dropped during the last 2 hours by 0.25 points :( |
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01/14/2009 12:28:56 PM · #15 |
| someone commented that my picture was "just food". This kind of annoyed me. I actually cooked my dish and then photographed it; there are some images that did not involve any cooking at all. I think ANY food image should be acceptable, even those not involving cooking. After all, that is what stock photos of the culinary variety are usually of: just food. It's just making me wonder how badly some people are going to vote down the images of "just food". |
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01/14/2009 01:04:24 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by katiemcg:
someone commented that my picture was "just food". This kind of annoyed me. I actually cooked my dish and then photographed it; there are some images that did not involve any cooking at all. I think ANY food image should be acceptable, even those not involving cooking. After all, that is what stock photos of the culinary variety are usually of: just food. It's just making me wonder how badly some people are going to vote down the images of "just food". |
I got the same thing; mine is "just food", mind you. But while I agree with you I think mine's coming in about where it should, so I don't think the "just food" voter(s) are having much effect.
Votes: 47
Views: 79
Avg Vote: 5.4255
Comments: 2
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Edit for punctuation
Message edited by author 2009-01-14 13:05:18. |
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01/14/2009 01:47:11 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by limerick:
Are you kidding me?
Votes: 25
Views: 45
Avg Vote: 6.7200
Comments: 1
Twice in one week? I wasnt even going to enter mine and I get this score? Same as my Life score. I had to hit refresh and get my glasses just to make sure I was seeing right!
Lonni its going to be close in this one! Its early yet so I might go down but your score is good to! |
No, I think I've just been beaten by the better player :)
Votes: 58
Views: 102
Avg Vote: 5.7931
Comments: 1
Well done Agnes! |
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01/14/2009 01:59:51 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by katiemcg:
someone commented that my picture was "just food". This kind of annoyed me. I actually cooked my dish and then photographed it; there are some images that did not involve any cooking at all. I think ANY food image should be acceptable, even those not involving cooking. After all, that is what stock photos of the culinary variety are usually of: just food. It's just making me wonder how badly some people are going to vote down the images of "just food". |
You're not alone Katie! I forgot about the description when I took my picture of food until after I entered it. Although the challenge description said to "capture the art of cooking", many of us, me included, took that also to mean taking a stock type picture of "food" that could be used in a magazine or brochure. You almost NEVER see people in cooking stock images mucking up the shot as the food is supposed to be the star, not the chef. I felt the DNMC police would be scoring my image of "just food" down, and I was right! Since I'm not too tied into my scores, and I didn't think my picture was too bad for a stock image, I left it in anyway so down and down it goes! :-D |
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01/14/2009 04:06:58 PM · #19 |
Any image that didn't involve the actual act of cooking is a DNMC. Sorry folks. I didn't enter so keep in mind I have no dog in this fight.
"A less popular stock topic, but necessary nonetheless: Cooking. Come up with a unique and effective way to capture the art of cooking (food) such that it could be used on a website or on a brochure"
If you were looking to purchase a Stock Photo of "cooking" would a simple plate of prepared food be what you're looking for? It's a very specific thing. Or if you did a keyword meta search for that met the descriptions requirements..."cooking", as a buyer, would you want to sift through images of prepared foods (plated) or would you prefer that people cooking food, to come up in your search.
It's not a rare search topic ("Cooking") and images of people cooking are in great demand which differ greatly from a lot of what I'm seeing in the Challenge.
CJinCA-To address what you wrote; If you look at banners hanging in Super Markets...Aisle 3 Kitchenware, you may see a stock photo of someone BBQing or Stir Frying (with flame flying out of the pan/grill) etc. The Baked Goods Department might have a banner in the aisle of someone taking a pie out of the oven or dipping truffles in chocolate...you get the picture. It's very common for brochures of prepared foods or specialty products to show some cooking action going on. Brings life to the product.
Good Luck.
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01/14/2009 04:35:05 PM · #20 |
When I search shutterstock for "cooking" only 8 of the 60 front page images include pictures of people cooking or food being cooked/prepared. The remainder are pictures of food, or food related images.
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Originally posted by :
the art of cooking (food) |
Well, I showed food.
I happen to believe you can vote however you want. But if you DNMC for images of food or ingredients, I'm going to laugh at you, as is my right, too! |
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01/14/2009 04:39:14 PM · #21 |
I did searches on stock photo sites as a preparation for this challenge and right after I read this post. I searched for "cooking'.
What I found was very simple: photos of anything related to cooking.
raw ingrediences
preparation for cooking (cutting veggies, meat,...)
tools used for cooking (pots, pans, knifes)
spices
the act of cooking - of course
and the final product of cooking.
From my point limiting the interpretation to the act of cooking is too narrow, as the descrition also includes 'stock' and the 'art' not 'act' of cooking. |
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01/14/2009 04:44:57 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by eamurdock:
When I search shutterstock for "cooking" only 8 of the 60 front page images include pictures of people cooking or food being cooked/prepared. The remainder are pictures of food, or food related images.
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Originally posted by :
the art of cooking (food) |
Well, I showed food.
I happen to believe you can vote however you want. But if you DNMC for images of food or ingredients, I'm going to laugh at you, as is my right, too! |
Yeah but that's Shutterstock and people keyword whatever they want to get exposure and make sales. Whatever. FWIW, I'm not voting but I stick to what I said. Cooking is Cooking. You can laugh all you want but a picture of a finished green salad is NOT cooking. Dressing or Tossing the salad is. If a client is paying you to find OR take pictures of people cooking, think hard before you hand over what you shot and hope to get paid for. Fair enough?
Evan, there are 90 shots in that Challenge and if a client asked you to get them 90 commercial shots, of people cooking for various food related projects he has lined up YOU would be doing a lot of re-shooting, if those 90 entries were what you gave him. AND that ain't fun.
HeiSch-I've been hired specifically to get shots of people cooking and trust me as many plates of food you can show me there are a million cooking techniques that got those plates there. It's not limited or stifling or boring. I assume people just didn't want to take those shots. Too bad for them.
Here's some images I took where the act of cooking was a specific request in the shot mix from the client and another. Again, how people choose to keyword for max exposure is a far different animal from what searchers or Ad Agency Art Buyers may have in mind. Some Stock Agencies go under if people searching for images get flooded with stuff they don't want. Time is money...although Shutterstock is cheap and on the low end so people may trade convenience for inexpensive shots. A seriously high end stock agency would keep things tighter but the internet has a way sliding things downward.
Keep in mind if I were to keyword things I'd be all over the freakin place to get people to stumble across my images. It's shoehorning but that's a whole other thing.
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01/14/2009 04:46:02 PM · #23 |
I suppose baking is baking and therefore not 'cooking' either.
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Avg Vote: 4.5857 |
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01/14/2009 05:29:41 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by Lonni:
Originally posted by limerick:
Are you kidding me?
Votes: 25
Views: 45
Avg Vote: 6.7200
Comments: 1
Twice in one week? I wasnt even going to enter mine and I get this score? Same as my Life score. I had to hit refresh and get my glasses just to make sure I was seeing right!
Lonni its going to be close in this one! Its early yet so I might go down but your score is good to! |
No, I think I've just been beaten by the better player :)
Votes: 58
Views: 102
Avg Vote: 5.7931
Comments: 1
Well done Agnes! |
No way am I the "better player". I mean I like my pictures but they are not masterpieces like I have seen on here. I didnt expect to get a 6+ for another year. Hahhaa. This is just crazy. |
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01/14/2009 07:36:53 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by pawdrix:
Any image that didn't involve the actual act of cooking is a DNMC. Sorry folks. I didn't enter so keep in mind I have no dog in this fight.
"A less popular stock topic, but necessary nonetheless: Cooking. Come up with a unique and effective way to capture the art of cooking (food) such that it could be used on a website or on a brochure"
If you were looking to purchase a Stock Photo of "cooking" would a simple plate of prepared food be what you're looking for? It's a very specific thing. Or if you did a keyword meta search for that met the descriptions requirements..."cooking", as a buyer, would you want to sift through images of prepared foods (plated) or would you prefer that people cooking food, to come up in your search.
It's not a rare search topic ("Cooking") and images of people cooking are in great demand which differ greatly from a lot of what I'm seeing in the Challenge.
CJinCA-To address what you wrote; If you look at banners hanging in Super Markets...Aisle 3 Kitchenware, you may see a stock photo of someone BBQing or Stir Frying (with flame flying out of the pan/grill) etc. The Baked Goods Department might have a banner in the aisle of someone taking a pie out of the oven or dipping truffles in chocolate...you get the picture. It's very common for brochures of prepared foods or specialty products to show some cooking action going on. Brings life to the product.
Good Luck. |
Well, Steve, since in a previous thread where we were debating whether a certain blue ribbon winner was actually a DNMC, I was of the opinion that it did not meet the challenge although it was a beautiful and beautifully done image. But a famous SC member said, and I quote: ".... What you SHOULD take from it is that the challenge is the topic, and the description is usually less important- often irrelevant, and sometimes even contradictory. With few exceptions, you can chuck the description guideline out the window as long as you meet the challenge itself, and most of the voters are perfectly fine with that. ..............
Thus, if someone were to claim "DNMC" on the latter example, he'd be incorrect ............. Failure to meet the description would be DNMD. ;-)"
But actually, I'm on the side of meeting the description too, so I'll take my lumps in this challenge, even though according to this particular SC member, a picture of food does meet the Challenge topic, just not the description. On the other hand, since it said capture the "art" of cooking, you could argue that the finished product does show the art of cooking. :-) After all, what would cooking be about if not ingredients, the implements of cooking, the finished product etc. etc. Now if the challenge topic was "People Cooking", all but a very few of the images in this challenge would be DNMC. You will be happy to know I'm getting trounced! LOL!:-D And since this is a scores thread:
Votes:90
Views:134
Avg Vote:4.7444
Comments:4
Message edited by author 2009-01-14 19:37:59. |
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