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05/08/2006 11:20:48 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by sabphoto:
I would actually like to see voting done by picking 10 boxes...I know more work but hear me out.
You'd have 10 different sections (decided on the important parts of the image), something like: meets challenge, focus, color, position, etc. You pick each box you feel they meet to your satisfaction and it adds your score up automatically. |
The problem with this approach is that I have seen plenty of shots that meet the challenge, have good color, are sharp, properly exposed, pleasant to look at, with appropriate DOF and a decent title, and have voted them 6 or 7, not 9.
It's that "uniqueness" that kept them from a "10" in your scale, but in MY scale unique counts for a LOT. I am looking for brilliance, it's important to me. And other intangibles.
Those shots I mentioned, all perfectly competent photographs that can't be sriously assigned any "flaws", but they just don't connect, they don't GO anywhere in my heart. So for me, voting is more of a gestalt thing. The FIRST thing I do is make a quick pass through sorting on gut reaction. If it's technically brilliant or emotionally compelling or any of a number of other things, it "makes the cut" and I'll be examining it more closely on a second pass.
But even on that second pass, those "details" you mention are secondary to the emotive aspect of the image, how compelling it is overall. For me the details are the difference between a 10 and a 9, as it were. I'd hate to see voting mechanized like this.
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I totally agree. One of the sections should be how it affects the voter.
I have seen and voted on images that I either found boring and lack of feeling or just totally against my likings and always try to give it merits for how the photographer pulls off the technical stuff and try to comment about that fact. We know that no image will please everyone and that is what makes this site great, everyone has an opinion and an idea that should be shared for others to learn from and experience.
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05/09/2006 08:49:38 PM · #27 |
OK, I loaded Firefox 1.5 and voted the Rhythm challenge with the keypad... I think I'm hooked, LOL.
1.5 seems to be light-years ahead of the last verson I had loaded. The only thing I'm missing, so far, is the Google Toolbar.
Heh, just discovered the IS a Google Toolbar for Firefox now. Life is good!
Message edited by author 2006-05-09 20:51:20. |
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05/09/2006 09:08:59 PM · #28 |
Hmmm, one minor misbehavior. If you vote on an image, decide you want to back up and modify the vote, when ou hit "Back" your vote is not highlighted. Refreshing returns your highlighted vote.
Anyone else see this same behavior, or is it a quirk of my system? |
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05/09/2006 09:15:39 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Hmmm, one minor misbehavior. If you vote on an image, decide you want to back up and modify the vote, when ou hit "Back" your vote is not highlighted. Refreshing returns your highlighted vote.
Anyone else see this same behavior, or is it a quirk of my system? |
Yes, but I usually know what the vote was, because I am changing it, so it doesn't really matter much... |
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