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06/06/2005 11:48:43 PM · #1 |
Does anyone else find that getting miserable scores on their photos is strangely liberating? I'm in the midst of earning some particularly bad ratings, and I feel oddly free! It's like I no longer feel the need for my score to edge up just a bit higher so I could maybe (just maybe) get in the top 10, because my scores are so bad, that'll never happen anyway! I'M UNHINGED!
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06/06/2005 11:49:41 PM · #2 |
ah yes.. im right there with ya ;-)
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06/06/2005 11:51:04 PM · #3 |
You're just rationalizing.
We've all done it.
I am (thankfully) past the bad bit and my scores are up overall. Currently in Framed sitting at 5.6 something.
As long as i can beat my average, i am happy. (currently at 5.09)
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06/06/2005 11:51:42 PM · #4 |
forget blue, go for brown, that's what i usually say
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06/06/2005 11:58:20 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
As long as i can beat my average, i am happy. (currently at 5.09) |
That's a good way to look at it. That definitely has kept me going at certain points... but now it's just depressing me!
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06/07/2005 12:00:22 AM · #6 |
| Back in March I followed a 7.7 score (my best) with a 4.5 stinker (my worst), and I was still able to smile about it. I can get tense over .001 drops, so it was a little weird when that one didn't bother me at all. I was totally shocked that the score was so low, but I understood why and probably wouldn't have done anything differently, so no reason to stress out over it. I won't make the same mistake again (I'm always looking for new mistakes). ;-) |
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06/07/2005 12:01:27 AM · #7 |
I find that when I don't focus on the score, my pictures are more pleasing to me.
Don't get me wrong, I like a good score as well as anyone, but I know what areas I am growing as a photographer, and it isn't always challenge topics. Of the past 5 or 6 entries I've had, I think one of them has doen what I felt was "good," and only one recieved a lower score than I thought it would, the rest got pretty much the score I figured and deservedly so. |
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06/07/2005 12:04:11 AM · #8 |
Yes....I know what you mean. Just when you think you're getting decent....SLAM....the reminder/humbling challenge results. Oh well, it's all fun.
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06/07/2005 12:06:38 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
As long as i can beat my average, I am happy. |
That has been my approach for nearly a year, but success brings its own problems. The more you beat your average, the harder it gets. |
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06/07/2005 12:08:03 AM · #10 |
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06/07/2005 12:21:47 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
That has been my approach for nearly a year, but success brings its own problems. The more you beat your average, the harder it gets. |
Very true. |
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06/07/2005 12:29:21 AM · #12 |
Hmmmm I just wonder sometimes.. what its like to actually get the blue...
But as long as I take the comments, learn from my mistake, acheive better in my personal pictures that arent entered in entries, then it was well worth the last place.. Sure its a joy to be last... no pain no gain right...
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06/07/2005 02:05:01 AM · #13 |
Aah, but the question is, why are you taking photographs? To take good photographs that fulfill your own PERSONAL vision, or to win contests, or to take pictures that are pleasing to most people or because you're socially dysfunctional and it's the only way to get out the house. Oh, wait, that last one's just me :-)
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06/07/2005 02:18:17 AM · #14 |
I find that there are several things about entering that supercede points in importance, I feel that comments are worth more than high scores, I got a 5.5 on a recent photo, but what I was really excited about was my 30 comments I got on it, and two after voting! Favorites to me go a step even further!
I think in the future, I will be giving out various awards to photos, and I will try to stay consistant, If you recieve an award, you will automatically recieve at least an 8. Ill post there awards on a thread, maybe someday people will compete for them or at least get some more satisfaction outside of their numerical score. |
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06/07/2005 02:19:14 AM · #15 |
I tend to feel more pressure after I've done well, and I end up submitting off the wall entries that I think will do badly to bring myself back down to earth. That is not to say I enter photographs I don't like or that I think are bad; generally my lower scoring shots are the ones I like better, simply because my tastes often differ from that of the average DPCer (ie I like grainy photos, contrasty b&ws, vivid, over the top abstracts). I'm not all that good at judging what people will like, though, and I've been wrong many times.
I thought people would dislike my last entry for a lot of reasons, and I'm totally amazed that it did as well as it did. The same can be said for the similar shot that I entered into the "outside looking in" challenge. Voters baffle and amaze me sometimes.
I think I just feel like I should strive to do really well again after I've had a good score - like people will expect me to for whatever reason; I can't really see that people have me in mind enough to expect anything - and that is when I tend to do the worst. :) And then, having fallen back down into the 4s, I feel completely free to enter whatever I want - because it doesn't matter how the score goes; there are no expectations to meet. :) |
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06/07/2005 02:25:46 AM · #16 |
| what is a lousy score, anyway? 2...3...? |
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06/07/2005 03:52:46 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by renonovado:
what is a lousy score, anyway? 2...3...? |
Lousy, would be 1, although you'd have to break all the records for bad pictures to be there.
Give that the lowest on the site:
Got 1.809
Many people in the forums agonise over scores lower than 5, some thing 4 is life threatening.
It's all up to your own expectations, and perceptions...
I'd personally think that if I got lower than a 3 or so that I'd made a serious error in judgement uploading the photo! :-).
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06/07/2005 07:22:28 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by mycelium:
Does anyone else find that getting miserable scores on their photos is strangely liberating? I'm in the midst of earning some particularly bad ratings, and I feel oddly free! It's like I no longer feel the need for my score to edge up just a bit higher so I could maybe (just maybe) get in the top 10, because my scores are so bad, that'll never happen anyway! I'M UNHINGED! |
Scores sometimes get to me but its balanced out:
Enter - I'm thrilled if I manage to find something (anything!) to enter. Its like passing a test. I majored in philosophy in college so the tests were often brutal, one question finals.
The score is like a placement in the class. a 5.7 can be in the top 10% or it can be in the top 50% depends on the challenge.
Comments and favorites are what I like best. They keep me entering.
d |
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06/07/2005 07:25:02 AM · #19 |
to be totlly honest my photos would have national geographic beating down my door...but in order to keep my life sane i go into photo shop and use the "keep this photo under a 5.1 filter" ...i just couldnt handle all the craziness in my life right now that would come with true DPC success...
pleasw lets just keep this between us
thanks
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06/07/2005 08:13:25 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by buzzmom:
to be totlly honest my photos would have national geographic beating down my door...but in order to keep my life sane i go into photo shop and use the "keep this photo under a 5.1 filter" ...i just couldnt handle all the craziness in my life right now that would come with true DPC success...
pleasw lets just keep this between us
thanks |
LOL!
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06/07/2005 09:07:41 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by SlowPoet:
Aah, but the question is, why are you taking photographs? To take good photographs that fulfill your own PERSONAL vision, or to win contests, or to take pictures that are pleasing to most people or because you're socially dysfunctional and it's the only way to get out the house. Oh, wait, that last one's just me :-) |
my answer is yes. :) |
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06/07/2005 10:12:01 AM · #22 |
ok just got my conversion lens...now i can take lousy photos close up...wide angled....macro'd and fish eyed....wahahahah no stopping the suckiness now!!!! now my excuse for missing a good shot will be i cant tell the darn lens apart or i take too long to screw the darn things on!!!
this is good cause i was running out of excuses!
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06/07/2005 10:32:00 AM · #23 |
Getting low scores keeps me in check and makes me want to improve my OOC shots. However, it has also made me rethink the OOC strategy. The shots I hang in the gallery are all post processed in the same manner images are here and I feel to get better scores, if thats what I want, then I need to do the same with my entries. But scores is not what I am after. I would much rather have the comments. So far my challenge entries have been somewhat different than the others. Look at my beauty shot - I didn't think it would score well but it was unique amongst the other entries. (as a side note, I have sold more kaliedoscope shots than any others since I hung them in the gallerage. The only others that come close are the ones I took of glass.)
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07/29/2005 02:40:52 AM · #24 |
I've only recently found this site, and entered the last two challenges. I've actually been pleased that my photos didn't score well - 4.5 and 4.8. I knew they weren't that great, and I was proved right, so now I'm a genius. :)
"The only way is up, baby" - Yazz
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07/29/2005 03:26:23 AM · #25 |
Low scores? Me? Never! I'm MUCH too good. You all should be kissing the photo-esque ground I walk on for even being in your lowly presence! I just beam with perfect creative juices that shine through my every picture. I'm such a wonderful person to let you all bask in my aura.
Haha, actually I'm the queen of low scores. Anyone else only go downhill from their first challenge? That's pretty sad. But I'm learning and I suck so life goes on. BUT, the low scores do not make me feel vindicated in some way. You guys are crazy. Except for my bird and framed challenge, I deserved the brown for those.
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