Originally posted by RayEthier:
One step at a time............don't try to do it all at once. I have tried to vote on every single photo since I joined DPC, and with the exception of those instances where I was required to travel for work..... I have succeeded.
Ray |
Ditto. My voting is way up there close to 100% I've missed maybe 3-4 challenges voting in nearly a year on board. here's a tip to make it easier:
As soon as possible after the challenge closes and the entries are posted, allot an hour or so to sit down and "screen" the entries. Start at the beginning and click your way through one-by one, and "slot" the images into two groups; I use 6 and 5 myself. You can quickly ascertain whether an image is "good" or "not so good" by your particular standards, not paying (at this stage) a lot of attention to the challenge topic but just to the aesthetic merits of the entry.
Once you've slotted the images, and voted thereby on all of them, your voting page will change and show you all the images in 2 groups; the 5's and the 6's. Now you can go back through the 6's a few at a time as time makes itself available and study them more closely, adjusting your votes as you go. When you've finished the 6's, move down to the 5's and do the same with them. It's in this second pass that challenge relevance comes heavily into play. Sometimes a 6 will even move down to a 5 or a 4, in my case, if I can't find the challenge relevance in the image.
The pre-sorting is the key, if you're not sure you'll have time to seriously examine 300 or so images, because you've grouped the ones you liek the best on first pass so you can direct your time fruitfully thereafter.
I've actually evolved to where I use 4 slots now; 4,5,6 and 7. A few go immediately into 4 if I don't think they are very good at all; these are mostly images that are seriously flawed technically. A few go in 7 because I am SURE I want them near the top eventually, they move me mightily from the get-go.
I do my commenting on the second pass-through, btw, not the first. usually...
Robt.
Message edited by author 2005-11-11 02:03:26. |
