I did NOT need this today!
by yakatme

Comment:
I think that the expression you got (and I know about shooting toddlers!) is a one-in-a-million perfection. I know you were going for sad, but sad wouldn't have sold this photo so much. THIS expression, the "OH dear, here we go again" look? That's just gold. GOLD.

Murder on Montrose Way
by LevT

Comment:

Originally posted by sherpet: WONDERFUL IDEA - WONDERFUL SET-UP - WONDERFUL IMAGE - WONDERFUL RESULT - WELL DESERVED This is one of the reasons why I want to come back to DPC even if I cannot take photos anymore I can at least look at them and also SCORE when I get the chance to become a full member again ..... Miss you all from shez xox PS...... WHO the silly billy who gave this AWESOME IMAGE a "1" YES a ONE YOU must be ASHAMED or PLAIN STUPID.....Sorry if the truth hurts

No, they shouldn't be any of the above. There are plenty of reasons anyone might score this a one, and none of them are invalid. They may be antithetical to YOUR way of viewing DPC, the world, or whatever, but they are valid none-the-less.

Every score is personal, and every score counts. It reflects more negatively on you, than the the person giving a 1, when you react in this way.

Murder on Montrose Way
by LevT

Comment:
It's been a long, long time since I've been utterly floored. You've succeeded here.

control
by liangdawei

Comment:
I love how many people were fooled by this set-up. heh.

The Wild
by AllenP

Comment:
All I can do is laugh at people that feel disappointed or tricked by something like this. A little too much time on their hands. It's amusing.

Strike!!!!!!!
by MattO

Comment:
I didn't vote, but here's my take:

In a bokeh challenge, the key is to get the bokeh to be the defining feature of the shot. You should be able to look at the photo and say, "The background elements contribute to the overall feeling of the photo". Is that what can be said about this shot? Well, not really.

What defines this shot IS the frozen ball. Period. It's the whole reason the shot exists, and the whole reason for looking at the photo. It's "Wow, he got a ball frozen in time during a pitch! cool!" However, we don't even care one iota about background elements. They are secondary and provide no meaning to the photo.

In a bokeh challenge, you need the BOKEH to be what's looked at and talked about. Instead, you have the ball being that primary aspect, and the ball isn't bokeh.

Quite frankly, a 6.2+ is far more than this shot probably SHOULD have got, but you scored higher than I would have thought it would have placed because you did manage to wow people with the frozen action and got them to look past the fact that bokeh plays no part. So instead of looking negatively that the score might have been higher, look positively that it's actually as high as it is.

Tomato No. 42
by gyaban

Comment:
Aye. I read your comments and agree. There was definitely a misunderstanding about what Weston was all about as far as lighting was concerned, throughout this entire challenge. Weston was a master at using subtle lighting for contrast and shape. Almost to the point where you'd be hard-pressed to believe he actually cared about lighting at all. So something like this being a blue ribbon was a little shocking.

However, DPC always speaks, so congrats on the blue :D I'm glad that you yourself understood that it wasn't exactly the "Weston" way, but C'est La Vie right?

Canada Lynx on Alert
by scalvert

Comment:

Originally posted by scalvert: Originally posted by yanko: I don't know what's funnier, you shoehorning another zoo shot in a wildlife challenge or Simms "shooting fish in a barrel" calling you out on it. Much ado about nothing. If you ask someone if a lynx is an example of wildlife they'll say ABSOLUTELY, but a stray siamese cat would get hammered by voters even if it had never seen a house in its life.

Meh. Like getting "called out" by someone taking a photo of deer in a nature preserve is any different anyway, on the grand scale.

Winter Moon
by h2

Comment:
That's one SUPER GIANT MEGA WOLF! RUN AWAY!

Writing lines
by snaffles

Comment:
How is this multiple captures?