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02/08/2006 01:52:33 PM · #1 |
This is my entry for Off-Center. Just trying to understand if my low score is linked to photo quality or just the idea itself. Most often, I can pretty much make a guess as to why my entry doesn't do well (like that of my recent Free Study) but this is one of those that I'm not sure about. Anyone like to give it a shot and let me know what you think? Thanks much.
Eileen
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02/08/2006 02:28:59 PM · #2 |
Got a 6 from me. In general, very "graphicy", "posterized" images don't do real well in DPC. Plus, this was for "Off-Center Subject" and the "subject" doesn't really control the image here, it seems almost incidental to the background in some ways.
R.
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02/08/2006 02:36:56 PM · #3 |
I think it's a really cool shot. But you know, it took me a few seconds to figure out what I was looking at! At first I thought it was a view looking up the facade of a building or something, and the figure is so blurred that I couldn't really tell what it was. After studying it for a few seconds, though, I realized what I was looking at and then I immediately thought "Oh, that's a really cool shot!". So maybe the speed-voters didn't spend enough time to realize what they were looking at? Also, maybe it would have helped if the figure was it bit less blurred, and therefore more recognizable.
Just my rambling 2 cents...
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02/08/2006 02:44:10 PM · #4 |
| It got a 6 from me as well - I think bear and keith are right - it's not mainstream enough to do well with the masses. |
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02/08/2006 02:52:40 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Got a 6 from me. In general, very "graphicy", "posterized" images don't do real well in DPC. Plus, this was for "Off-Center Subject" and the "subject" doesn't really control the image here, it seems almost incidental to the background in some ways. |
I find your idea of rushing around without a purposeful destination in your image interesting and your positioning of the moving figure just left of the leftmost vertical "Rule of Thirds" line to be very appropriate for that particular challenge.
I would agree with Mr. Music about "graphicy", "posterized" image acceptance here. Given this is an educational site we see a lot of experiments like this and people become a little jaded to it. Off-colored images are very common.
However, this style would be readily accepted and highly praised in some other venues. For example, just about any New York City fine art photography gallery. ;)
Message edited by author 2006-02-08 14:54:08.
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02/08/2006 05:39:22 PM · #6 |
Thanks a lot for the insightful feedback. Pretty much confirms what I suspected but couldn't be sure. Well, that makes me feel better that it wasn't an altogether a bad photo. I'm constantly experimenting at the moment including the study of watching Parisians "rush around without a purposeful destination" in evidence. So end up taking more fluke shots than decent pleasing images.
Anyway, if I can get a 6 from you lot is good enough for me! :) |
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02/08/2006 05:53:12 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by elee3009:
Thanks a lot for the insightful feedback. Pretty much confirms what I suspected but couldn't be sure. Well, that makes me feel better that it wasn't an altogether a bad photo. I'm constantly experimenting at the moment ... |
Never stop experimenting, that is what will make you good, but understand some experiments fail. If you don't crawl out on a limb, you can't pick the fruit.
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02/08/2006 05:56:56 PM · #8 |
Hi Eileen,
You already know how I feel about this photo, but Bear makes a pretty good point about the subject not controlling the image. I think the voters were really looking for a strong singular subject in an almost negative space type of background.
Still top image of challenge in my opinion! By the away how did you get nearly identical scores on this one and your free study X?
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02/08/2006 06:07:22 PM · #9 |
| got an 8 from me and I don't see any faults with it except that it doesn't appeal to the dpc masses. |
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02/09/2006 09:54:52 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by stdavidson:
Never stop experimenting, that is what will make you good, but understand some experiments fail. If you don't crawl out on a limb, you can't pick the fruit. |
Yeah, thanks for the advise too. I'm trying hard to keep it in mind altho' I'm kinda sick of my hovering average score. :)
Oh, and thanks JPR for the nice score.
Mark and Robert, I agree about the observation of subject somewhat and how a voter might see it that way. Guess I really failed in conveying what I wanted to 'coz the "subject" of this photo wasn't really the figure itself. The "subject" to me, was to the notion of a "fleeting moment" and that I tried to do by intersecting the escalator and the figure together.
But heck, it didn't work so be it and moving on. ;) |
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02/09/2006 10:06:46 AM · #11 |
Left a comment on the image.
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