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03/10/2005 01:16:04 AM · #1 |
How about a few opinions on these recent portfolio additions:
  
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03/10/2005 01:21:56 AM · #2 |
| Looks good. They do look a little flat in terms of color. Do you have Photoshop? If so you can do some editing magic... |
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03/10/2005 01:23:39 AM · #3 |
Darlene, your photos absolutely do not suck! I would be so happy to take images of that quality. I urge everyone to remember that DPC is not the benchmark of quality or talent. I love this site, but am crushed if I see someone take the scores too seriously. Your colors and immediate captures are fantastic. I have adored some of your other work, too.
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03/10/2005 01:34:26 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Kylie:
Darlene, your photos absolutely do not suck! I would be so happy to take images of that quality. I urge everyone to remember that DPC is not the benchmark of quality or talent. I love this site, but am crushed if I see someone take the scores too seriously. Your colors and immediate captures are fantastic. I have adored some of your other work, too. |
Thanks for the encouragement Kylie. I just returned from a local camera club competition. Everything I entered placed, but I can't seem to get out of the 4s here lately. While the camera club scores were refreshing, it is a much smaller audience than this international forum. The hammering I have received here recently is wearing on me a bit. Maybe something will click for me in lines or best friends. If not, maybe I should take a breather for a bit and try to figure out what I am doing wrong. Thanks again for the kind words. :) By the way, I love all of your car shots. |
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03/10/2005 01:42:32 AM · #5 |
hehe........i wish i sucked that much.......
how bad do i have to get before i get as bad as u.... (note must be backwards day, in future would ppl. let me know)
_brando_
btw not a thing i would change with any of those
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03/10/2005 09:25:19 AM · #6 |
Good work Darlene. The amount of saturation and sharpness you put into your images is a matter of style as much as it is technique. People tend to go overboard for internet shots sometimes, me included. You'll find the level you like, and that's the correct level for you. You are not at the point of National Graphic yet, but you are closer to it than to the suck level, and you are improving.
Lynx and Before Coffee are not real sharp so it makes it a little hard to find the focus point, but they both have good bokeh. I see some color clipping in the blotches around the flamingo's eye, and ther's a hot spot at the end of his nostril I'd have cloned out. He could have cooperated better by putting his entire beak into the sunlight. The Jaguar is my fav, I especially like that the shaded side of his face is not too dark.
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03/10/2005 09:29:59 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by zagman:
Looks good. They do look a little flat in terms of color. Do you have Photoshop? If so you can do some editing magic... |
Does magic come from software? I thought it came from the minds of photographers.
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03/10/2005 09:42:24 AM · #8 |
i've been in a similar slump.
your photos are great, and you are well known on this site. there's a reason for that.
the harder you try to 'do better', the harder you're going to take a negative score. let the creativity flow to you naturally and enter what evokes the biggest reaction to you. don't worry so much about outside opinions, if the photo is good, it's good.
Originally posted by dartompkins:
Originally posted by Kylie:
Darlene, your photos absolutely do not suck! I would be so happy to take images of that quality. I urge everyone to remember that DPC is not the benchmark of quality or talent. I love this site, but am crushed if I see someone take the scores too seriously. Your colors and immediate captures are fantastic. I have adored some of your other work, too. |
Thanks for the encouragement Kylie. I just returned from a local camera club competition. Everything I entered placed, but I can't seem to get out of the 4s here lately. While the camera club scores were refreshing, it is a much smaller audience than this international forum. The hammering I have received here recently is wearing on me a bit. Maybe something will click for me in lines or best friends. If not, maybe I should take a breather for a bit and try to figure out what I am doing wrong. Thanks again for the kind words. :) By the way, I love all of your car shots. |
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03/10/2005 10:50:41 PM · #9 |
| Thanks to everyone for the much needed boost. My surreal entry has evoked a pretty surreal score, and the last few have been very similar. It is funny, everyone is describing what is "wrong" with my photo and then wondering what is surreal about it. Exactly what they are describing as "wrong" with it is what made it surreal in my mind. Oh well, thats for another thread I guess. Thanks again. |
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03/10/2005 11:44:40 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by dartompkins:
Thanks to everyone for the much needed boost. My surreal entry has evoked a pretty surreal score, and the last few have been very similar. It is funny, everyone is describing what is "wrong" with my photo and then wondering what is surreal about it. Exactly what they are describing as "wrong" with it is what made it surreal in my mind. Oh well, thats for another thread I guess. Thanks again. |
That can be frustrating can't it? You and I are in many ways in the same boat. We're definitely good photographers, but we seem to be on a different wavelength than the voters. My average vote received over 20 challenges is 5.01... I can't tell you how many times I've had an image criticized for precisely what I have done intentionally, as if to say my entire vision is a complete mistake.
I don't know your history, but I take comfort in the fact that my work has been "validated" in the "real world" (read marketplace and galleries) long before I came here, so I can fall back on that.
It's my mantra: "DPC voters do NOT represent the final arbiter of quality in art..."
I'm not putting down the voters, mind you; these are wonderful people here and each and every one of us has our own perspective on things; the collective expression of those merged perspectives is the "DPC Norm", and images that cluster around that norm will rarely do poorly. Those of us who step away from the norm with regualrity will suffer poor scores as a matter of course. Like, for instance, over-erudite fools who enter raindrops as self-portraits and self-portraits as 70's entries.
So take heart! Do your thing! The community loves ya, and that's what matters.
Robt.
Message edited by author 2005-03-10 23:46:56.
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