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10/26/2005 06:19:19 AM · #1 |
My Best challenge photo till date. It got a score of only 5.702, Ranked 83/365.
I was comparing it with another Ribbon-Winning photo. Was my photo inferior? Comments/Critique welcome.
Message edited by author 2005-10-26 06:20:31. |
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10/26/2005 06:19:59 AM · #2 |
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10/26/2005 06:26:40 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by kbhatia1967:
Was my photo inferior? |
I don't think so. I gave it a 9. I really like it. |
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10/26/2005 06:49:29 AM · #4 |
Beautiful photo. But in terms of fitting the challenge it would drop some marks compared to the other photo fitting its challenge.
I would have still given it an 8
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10/26/2005 07:04:39 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by alexsaberi:
But in terms of fitting the challenge it would drop some marks ... |
Why? I can never understand why people need to box the brain so much about fitting the challenge. Clearly there is a reflection without mirror in the image. I think only a blind man could say it's not. I think some people forget this is a photo contest and make it to much a challenge rules interpretation contest. In my mind that image couldn't fit the challenge better. I wonder why you feel it doesn't. |
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10/26/2005 07:51:14 AM · #6 |
- Having this as portrait makes it look a bit 'squeezed in' or something, I think the composition would have been better as landscape (which would have allowed you more flexibility in where the boat is positioned)
- Either have the figures in the boat in sillouette or well-lit, not in between. At the moment they have a strange lighting effect to them, and the white shirts stand out more than anything.
- That person in the boat taking the photo is distracting. Might have worked better if the boat only had the two people who were rowing (and not the people sitting in the middle).... but there's not much you could have done about that!
That's about all I can see. |
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10/26/2005 07:57:06 AM · #7 |
Although I like your photo alot. The other one catches my eye a little more because of the striking colors, size of the setting sun, sharp contrast, focus and overall balance of the picture.
Message edited by author 2005-10-26 07:58:20. |
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10/26/2005 08:11:05 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by jhonan:
- Having this as portrait makes it look a bit 'squeezed in' or something, I think the composition would have been better as landscape (which would have allowed you more flexibility in where the boat is positioned)
- Either have the figures in the boat in sillouette or well-lit, not in between. At the moment they have a strange lighting effect to them, and the white shirts stand out more than anything.
- That person in the boat taking the photo is distracting. Might have worked better if the boat only had the two people who were rowing (and not the people sitting in the middle).... but there's not much you could have done about that!
That's about all I can see. |
ditto this. You did fit the challenge but the above mentioned items would probably not boost your score. The boat going out of the scene on the left bothered me the most and caught my eye. I would have liked it to be landscape to give more room or the boat more to the right. The colors aren't the same as the other you are trying to compare to so I don't think that is a good example. It is possibly a good image but lacks the punch of the other. By my voting method you would have gotten a 5 for meeting the challenge details.
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10/26/2005 08:30:16 AM · #9 |
Krishan,
Something that you should understand is that a photo getting lower or higher score on dpchallenge doesn't mean its inferior or superior. All it means is that it didn't appeal to a specific community in a specific challenge. And from my experience here at dpchallenge, mostly eye-candy photographs score high. So I wouldn't look at it as it being 'inferior', but something like 'why it scored lower'
You have already got some answers here in the forums about why it scored low. What you need to do for a higher dpchallenge score is to make it pop. Voters normally spend only a few seconds to vote and it should catch their eye.
just my 2 cents |
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