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07/16/2006 03:40:39 PM · #26 |
I also took the challenge to mean architectural however since the challenge description didn't rule out anything I voted based on all definitions of the word since that's what the challenge suggested (by virtual of it's vagueness).
However, knowing the voters' narrow views on everything I shot my entry using the strict (and perhaps correct) interpretation which meant architectural, but even still I'm pretty sure I've gotten dinged by those with incredibly narrow views such as those that believe perspective is only about vanishing points, which must be seen in the photograph.
ETA: Actually, I meant to say was I took the challenge to mean the definition used in photography and drawing, which includes the physical perspectives like height perspective, dwindling size perspective, vanishing points, overlap, volume and atmospheric perspectives but since the description was vague I included any definition of the word as meeting the challenge when I voted.
Message edited by author 2006-07-16 16:14:47.
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07/16/2006 03:45:39 PM · #27 |
| If perspective can mean either, a) the way someone thinks, or b) the relationship of objects in a scene, I would expect a) to do better in a poetry challenge and b) in a photographic one. |
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07/16/2006 03:58:20 PM · #28 |
1. It's very hard to make personal perspective have impact in a picture.
2. It's very hard to make personal perspective have impact in a picture.
3. It's very hard to make personal perspective have impact in a picture.
4. See 1, 2, and 3.
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07/16/2006 04:29:10 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by Rikki:
Simple.
The challenge says use perspective to create impact on your photograph. If you try to muscle in an emotion there, I doubt it will do well. "Using" perspective IMHO means in the architectural kind of way.
My 2 cents. |
I voted trying to see the impact of the perspective more than the type of perspective. Either way, there were a lot of images I didn’t comment on, as there were so many images to work through. I've voted 100% in the last four basic challenges and have knocked out over 300 comments in the last two weeks.
Edit for typo
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07/16/2006 04:30:56 PM · #30 |
I voted low if the picture exhibited none of the following:
1) classical vanishing point lines
2) an interesting or unusual angle
3) something that made me think of a new way to think of the subject
For #1, there has to be something drawing my eye into the distance. I interpret that pretty liberally, but there has to be something. The biggest problem, and my most common comment in this type of photo, is that the photog often the DOF so much that the leading lines blurred into the flat background, destroying the effect. Also, a standard landscape shot, say of a ridge against a sunset, isn't leading me into the scene. It's just a pretty picture.
For #2, it has to be unusual. A standard macro shot of a bug, with the camera a few inches out in the air, is not unusual. Nor does it help to claim it's the bug's eye view in the title. Now, if someone manages to take a shot from, say, behind the bug's head, that would satisfy my definition. A few shots did achieve this concept (not literally, but the same kind of thing). It wasn't just bugs to which this applies, either. I gave a few 8s and 9s for this kind of shot.
For #3, well, you've got at most 30 seconds of my time. If the picture doesn't make it clear what you're trying to convey, then I don't get it and I move on.
I learned from an early challenge that it's the photog's responsibility to communicate, not the viewer's responsibility to dig around trying to find something within the challenge.
It reminds me of when I watched the David Lynch movie Mulholland Drive. I was so confused by it that I searched Google for an explanation. But then my brother summed it up well: if I have to go online to understand your movie, I'm working too hard for my entertainment.
All of that said, if you got a DNMC from me, I'd be happy to discuss it further. Just PM me.
Edited to add that my own submission is one of the category 2 shots, with a smidge of heading into the distance blended in.
Message edited by author 2006-07-16 16:33:42. |
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