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 12/08/2005 10:35:34 PM · #51
I know! I know!

Add figuratively or literally at the end of each description! That 'should' open the door a little wider for the tight asses :)

Ok....I'm going to go and get some choclate milk now....

12/08/2005 10:39:44 PM · #52
My entry was a shot in which I was 1 1/2 hours early for a business meeting and took some photographs. And without describing the photograph, it was early in the day. Are you, as the viewer, going to neccessarily going to get that? No, and that's okay with me. I'm not here for the score, I'm here to use the challenges to meet topics in my own personal way, and tackle subjects I might not have thought of before. Whether I score low, high, or somewhere in-between doesn't change my abilities and talents as a photographer. Sometimes when I'm voting, there are many photos that meet my preconceived notions about a theme, others that make me say, "I didn't think of that", and others I really won't understand no matter how hard I tried. But that's okay, that's the nature of photography and all artistic crafts. To me, it's what makes it fun and a place to grow. If anything, I've enjoyed this place, seeing what people come with, have taken some photos I never would've attempted to take before, and it's broadened not only my mind, but my tool palette. I'm not going to pretend to understand the angst.

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 12/08/2005 10:43:57 PM · #53
For me,

Im judging these challenges as too early or too late. What constitutes the photographer was too late or early? Or was it the subject to early or too late? There is so much room on this challenge if you don't look at it with blinders on. For me meeting the challenge is "is it too early or too late?" To each there own. I vote more on the image itself than "This is my take on this challenge".
 12/08/2005 11:37:42 PM · #54
It is ridiculous to think that the challenges were about being too early or late to push the shutter. That would just be stupid because if that were the case the whole challenge would be filled with garbage. That is like saying "Oh, this would have been a great picture if I had just shot it a little earlier/later." Thats like having a picture of a bird flying away from you or a sunset that has already lost it's colors...who wants to see that crap?
 12/08/2005 11:39:06 PM · #55
apparently not you :D
 12/08/2005 11:41:26 PM · #56
lol.. obviously not
 12/09/2005 09:33:45 AM · #57
Originally posted by fadedbeauty:
It is ridiculous to think that the challenges were about being too early or late to push the shutter. That would just be stupid because if that were the case the whole challenge would be filled with garbage. That is like saying "Oh, this would have been a great picture if I had just shot it a little earlier/later." Thats like having a picture of a bird flying away from you or a sunset that has already lost it's colors...who wants to see that crap?


Actually there were many who read the description and came up with good results. Here is the original proposal, BTW, so somebody actually did suggest it as it stands:
//www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=304831

I feel burned for actually following the description because most voters probably will ignore it (or not read it) as well, lowering my score. You have implied that you will give a low score to anyone who meets the challenge (after all, they are "crap"). How fair is that?

12/09/2005 09:48:00 AM · #58
Quite frankly, that is EXACTLY how I interpreted the challenge. Compose your shot then take it as being too early/late. To accomplish this is a VERY difficult task. Certainly requires a bit of thinking and timing to get it right. I think it's happened to those of us with point & shoot cameras that have more shutter lag (compared to DSLR's) - you know, where you compose a shot (especially action shots) and the shutter is just a bit too slow (therefore the image captured is 'Too Late'). Too Late is a little easier to imagine than Too Early.

I did see a handful of shots that managed to interpret and capture these challenges successfully.

Originally posted by fadedbeauty:
It is ridiculous to think that the challenges were about being too early or late to push the shutter. That would just be stupid because if that were the case the whole challenge would be filled with garbage. That is like saying "Oh, this would have been a great picture if I had just shot it a little earlier/later." Thats like having a picture of a bird flying away from you or a sunset that has already lost it's colors...who wants to see that crap?

12/09/2005 10:02:48 AM · #59
on my too late entry I really was too late to do what I wanted to so I took a picture of it. Im afraid that without the title people arent getting the "too Late" part. Ive come to decide that there are 2 types of voters, the literalists and the free birds (im sure Ill think of better labels later). THe literalists have to be shown that your picture meets the challenge, the free birds will take the artists view of it and vote on the merits of the pictures. Im a bit of both sometimes, more free than literal I think.
 12/09/2005 10:05:28 AM · #60
I did notice that for both challenges, a lot of them used the titles to bind their images to the challenge. For me a title is icing on the cake. The picture should show that it's too early or too late. With that said, there were a lot of DNMC.
 12/09/2005 10:09:48 AM · #61
out of my 5 comments there are 3 that tell me its a great picture but they dont get the too late theme. I think that if I could have gotten closer to what actually meant that I was late it would have come across better. The pictures I dont like are the fuzzy blurry ones that were entered.
 12/09/2005 10:54:30 AM · #62
I really think this should be the artist's interpretation. Since you're being so literal, the challenge said 'as if you were too early' NOT
'as if you were too early pushing the shutter'. Maybe, just maybe the majority got it right and you are the one that miss-interpreted this competition. But then how can it be wrong if it's artist interpretation. Not even DPC will disqualify a photo because someone felt the photo didn't meet the challenge.
 12/09/2005 11:21:04 AM · #63
"Compose a photograph and shoot it as if you were too late.
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I think 'shoot' is the key word. If it just said 'Compose a photograph as if you were too late' then the majority of entries would be fine. It's easy to make it appear like you were too late (or too early) to something...
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