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04/13/2005 10:11:13 AM · #1 |
are you good at spotting 'winners' in the challenges? ie. do you score the photos that end up winning in the 7-10 range? or do you find that the photos you score low often end up winning?
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04/13/2005 10:18:21 AM · #2 |
I very rarely find that the winners and my highest scores in a challenge over-lap. They do occassionally, but it's rare.
Take "Accidental Letters" for example. The red and blue ribbons each got a 5 and a 6 respectively from me. (6 is like my "average" score). The yellow got a 9 from me though, so there's the "occasional".
I dunno, I just have strange tastes. Always have.. always will.
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04/13/2005 10:20:17 AM · #3 |
I tend to help winners...
I'd say most of my 10's always land in the top 10... |
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04/13/2005 12:12:50 PM · #4 |
I rarely choose the winners. Pet portrait winner for me was #47, lol.
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04/13/2005 12:19:37 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Artyste:
I very rarely find that the winners and my highest scores in a challenge over-lap. They do occassionally, but it's rare.
Take "Accidental Letters" for example. The red and blue ribbons each got a 5 and a 6 respectively from me. (6 is like my "average" score). The yellow got a 9 from me though, so there's the "occasional".
I dunno, I just have strange tastes. Always have.. always will. |
Thanks, Artyste, the yellow was mine!
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04/13/2005 12:30:26 PM · #6 |
A bit of both scenarios for me. Overall I find that I agree with the voting averages pretty closely, but there are times when I see something in a photo that really speaks to me, but evidently does not do so for the majority. It's rarer that I score someting much lower than average, though.
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04/13/2005 12:31:46 PM · #7 |
| The winners usually suprise me, although I have hoped certain photos would win, and occasionally they'll ribbon in the top three. |
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04/13/2005 12:44:45 PM · #8 |
The winning photos don't often surprise me anymore. Occasionally they may. When I find better images in the margins, I try to help these by celebrating them with a few words.
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04/13/2005 01:05:00 PM · #9 |
| It depends on the challenge. In some challenges I just seem to know who will win (at least be in the top three). In other challenges, I have no idea what will win. |
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04/13/2005 01:09:19 PM · #10 |
i usually always choose the winners, which is very shocking considering my own scores..i would think that if i could pick and choose a winner, that I should be able to photograph one!
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04/13/2005 01:13:27 PM · #11 |
i almost never get the winners, but most of my top choices usually end up in the top 25.
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04/13/2005 01:17:30 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by aerogurl:
I rarely choose the winners. Pet portrait winner for me was #47, lol. |
I was even worse. My favourite came in at #86.
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04/13/2005 03:14:39 PM · #13 |
Didn't do too bad on the letters challenge, my top 3 picks ended up 1, 3 & 4. Picked the winner for the boring challenge too. Those being the only 2 challenges I've voted on explains my low averate vote given.
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04/13/2005 03:22:07 PM · #14 |
only one correct in two months has been Stanley in Pets ..
though i can usually guess which side of 50th percentile (even my own ;)
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04/19/2005 07:09:17 PM · #15 |
| For almost all challenges I like to go on record for those photographs that get the ribbon (if I alone could decide). I keep it to 3 (but make exceptions in contests with large numbers). I also like to record my "favorites" (usually about 10 shots) that I thought had something extra special. I usually get 2-3 in the top 10. |
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04/19/2005 07:13:24 PM · #16 |
| lately i've not been getting enough votes in to even see the winners before hand. when I voted on all I usually like some in the top 10, but never the one that won was my favorite. Often i'm not too extatic about the winners. |
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04/19/2005 09:25:07 PM · #17 |
I nailed the blue in Extreme Action with my only 10 for that challenge. It made me feel pretty good, especially since I was thinking that it was going to be a low scoring challenge.
What happens to me a lot more often is spotting a shot and thinking the "voters are going to love this one", but it's not in my personal top ten.
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04/19/2005 10:42:46 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by coolhar:
I nailed the blue in Extreme Action with my only 10 for that challenge. It made me feel pretty good, especially since I was thinking that it was going to be a low scoring challenge.
What happens to me a lot more often is spotting a shot and thinking the "voters are going to love this one", but it's not in my personal top ten. |
Ditto... A lot of the time I can "spot" an image or three that I think will probably ribbon, but are not IMO the top images in the challenge. The voters (collectively) and I rarely agree on what the "best" shots are. A notable exception that comes to mind is Zoomdak's entry in "Separation", which I had pegged as best of show and turned out to be the winner as well. Ditto for Scalvert's "Nightbulb". "Stanley", in pets, was an example of what's more normal for me; I had it pegged as the winner as soon as I saw it, but it wasn't in my personal top 10.
But then, that's why we vote isn't it? LOL
Robt.
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04/19/2005 10:52:16 PM · #19 |
I normally view images with a split mind. I can easily tell what will win a challenge. However, the winners are not always the best images. They are in some cases. I like both categories.
So I look and I appreciate the good images and many of these are simply good and great images. And then I also admire the images that simply sing out ribbon, ribbon. |
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04/19/2005 10:57:27 PM · #20 |
I can normally tell what image is going to score in the top 10. Sometimes, I'm wrong, but most of the time I'm right in my assumptions. Now the image I know is going to score in the top 10 (as viewed and voted on by the whole community) is not always necessarily the most appealing image to me...but I can spot mass-appeal most of the time. Now if only I could apply that mass-appeal to my photography, I'd be a DPC-ribbon magnet. :-D
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04/19/2005 11:08:16 PM · #21 |
| In addition to stats on average votes given and received in our profiles, how about another stat for "correctness" of voting? To some extent, it would be a gauge of how well a voter judge a photo, and might be revealing, in terms of showing voters' consistency, etc. |
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04/19/2005 11:20:56 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by robgo:
In addition to stats on average votes given and received in our profiles, how about another stat for "correctness" of voting? To some extent, it would be a gauge of how well a voter judge a photo, and might be revealing, in terms of showing voters' consistency, etc. |
That would be a REALLY deadly stat, LOL. Kinda like ranking people on how "normal" their dress is. I can see it now; "Damn, I'm good! More people agree with me than with anyone else!" That's how we elect politicians in the USA these days (and maybe always have); not based on their ethics, their character, or their positions on the issues, but based on how "sellable" they are, which translates into "offends the fewest people"...
I'll stop now before I get a rant started, LOL.
Robt.
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