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11/06/2006 10:09:32 PM · #776 |
Originally posted by JuliBoc:
Hey, does this mean I'm a Hoover? This is great. I'm afraid to ask if there's an initiation.;P What's next? |
Actually, I think you're gonna be on Team Novice if that's OK - they've lost Giorgio due to wicked good scoring so they need another teammate.
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11/06/2006 10:25:57 PM · #777 |
| Well that sucks! Is that the right responce for this team? Actually it would be much more fun to say I'm a Hoover than a Novice, but beggers can't be choosers. I'm really happy to find this great group of kindred spirits. |
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11/06/2006 10:26:48 PM · #778 |
I would gladly welcome you as a Hoover, but I think the other teams might start protesting if we keep getting to add members (of course, we were last the first week and didn't have enough scores to count the second week, so maybe allowances will be made!) I will leave it to posthumous to have the final say-so.
Edit: Too slow!
Message edited by author 2006-11-06 22:27:20. |
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11/06/2006 10:56:26 PM · #779 |
| Thanks, Chaimelle. Whatever is best for the team! I'll wait for posthumous' decision. |
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11/06/2006 10:58:58 PM · #780 |
Sorry, but Novice needs you! And you fit the bill perfectly, being new and all. Giorgio shall be respectfully erased and with JuliBoc shall he be replaced! (ideally, all official pronouncements should rhyme)
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11/06/2006 11:13:06 PM · #781 |
| Oh boy, I belong! Hello my fellow Novices, I'm happy to be in such fine company. |
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11/07/2006 12:02:31 AM · #782 |
I'm much happier with what I shot for Reflections than I did for Self Portrait. Maybe Team Minus will reclaim that elusive "no ribbon" slot next week.
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11/07/2006 05:23:08 AM · #783 |
Argh!
I've just viewed my "long exposure" photo on my laptop.
This is something of a realisation.
I've seen the photo on both a CRT and my main home LCD monitor, and I think it looks great.
I look at it on the laptop, and oh my god it looks horrible. There's what looks like it could be grain, and something that looks like sensor dust. The difference is scary, and I can easily see how people could give it a 4 or less.
So I check my free study, and it looks massively overexposed compared to the sedate version that I'm normally seeing.
So now I have to wonder whether most viewers are seeing the nice version or the horrible version, and which one is the "true" photo. My scores suggest that more people are seeing the bad version than not. |
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11/07/2006 05:49:33 AM · #784 |
| I never use my laptop to edit or vote because I have been unable to calibrate the screen. Even if your photograph looks bad on your screen, doesn't everyone else's look bad? |
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11/07/2006 05:51:56 AM · #785 |
Team Novice --  liltritter cuspie  raish noraneko JuliBoc
Team Minus --  posthumous, mngolfer, meyers, levyj413, Hotshot7
The Hoovers -- chaimelle, , xianart melismatica, dolphnz8, Melethia FormerLee
The Out of Focusers -- k4ffy, kdsprog, quiet_observation, bryantbus, Kivet
Team Entropy -- theSaj, skewsme, bcoble, mist, ragamuffingirl |
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11/07/2006 06:20:31 AM · #786 |
Originally posted by quiet_observation:
I never use my laptop to edit or vote because I have been unable to calibrate the screen. Even if your photograph looks bad on your screen, doesn't everyone else's look bad? |
This is something that I will need to check later.
The main reason I think it might be my photos (and that it is how some people are seeing it) is because the laptop makes apparent something that I was told about in a comment and dismissed because I can't see it at all on the non-laptop screens. It's in fact so obvious that I may need to check my camera for faults by comparing it against our 400D. Hmm. |
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11/07/2006 06:48:16 AM · #787 |
| Interesting. After the challenge is over let us know which photograph it is. Team Suck can give you some feedback on a variety of screens. |
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11/07/2006 06:54:36 AM · #788 |
Originally posted by quiet_observation:
Interesting. After the challenge is over let us know which photograph it is. Team Suck can give you some feedback on a variety of screens. |
Yes I think it is worth me pursuing. There's some very definite things that I can ask if people can see them or not. Only a few days to go until end of challenge. |
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11/07/2006 09:48:36 AM · #789 |
JulieBoc,
Welcome to team novice! Let's go out and show the rest of this league that we can suck with the best of them!
Cheers,
Noraneko
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11/07/2006 10:00:38 AM · #790 |
Julie, just going over your challenge photos and I'm impressed! I love how many award-winning and photo-selling photographers are among the ranks of suck (myself most certainly not included).
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11/07/2006 10:30:55 AM · #791 |
Sucking along....
Free Study XIV
Avg Vote: 4.6860
Comments: 7
Long Exposure II
Avg Vote: 4.5000
Comments: 2
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11/07/2006 10:33:59 AM · #792 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Julie, just going over your challenge photos and I'm impressed! I love how many award-winning and photo-selling photographers are among the ranks of suck (myself most certainly not included). |
I wonder how many low scoring photos here (would) have won other competitions elsewhere? The standard for acceptance here seems pretty high. |
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11/07/2006 10:36:02 AM · #793 |
Originally posted by mist:
Originally posted by posthumous:
Julie, just going over your challenge photos and I'm impressed! I love how many award-winning and photo-selling photographers are among the ranks of suck (myself most certainly not included). |
I wonder how many low scoring photos here (would) have won other competitions elsewhere? The standard for acceptance here seems pretty high. |
If by "high" you mean, "stoned out of their minds or possibly in a daze from watching too much television," then I completely agree with you.
Message edited by author 2006-11-07 10:36:16.
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11/07/2006 10:56:18 AM · #794 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by mist:
The standard for acceptance here seems pretty high. |
If by "high" you mean, "stoned out of their minds or possibly in a daze from watching too much television," then I completely agree with you. |
ROFL.
Meanwhile, Don, it looks like my long exposure entry might pull off your trick of sucking a really large amount, but not quiiiiite earning the brown ribbon:
Votes: 88
Views: 132
Avg Vote: 4.0909
Comments: 1
If you'd like another chance to have people besides you like your photos, check out Daily Awards (dailyawards.com).
My scores there are regularly far above what I get here and I actually win awards. It's a very different model from DPC. Feel free to PM me with any questions. |
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11/07/2006 11:09:19 AM · #795 |
Originally posted by levyj413:
If you'd like another chance to have people besides you like your photos, check out Daily Awards (dailyawards.com).
My scores there are regularly far above what I get here and I actually win awards. It's a very different model from DPC. Feel free to PM me with any questions. |
I too have photos on Daily Awards, and they score much higher than on DPC. It makes me feel better about my *suck* factor. However, I have to say the comments I get on DPC tend to be more constructive. |
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11/07/2006 11:33:22 AM · #796 |
I guess I don't try hard or care enough to make pretty photographs for DPC but I really don't appreciate pretty.
Maybe I should just get zonkered the next time out photographing. But those tilted horizons would probably not go over well either. |
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11/07/2006 11:46:58 AM · #797 |
Oh! Oh! What a lovely idea! We ought to all go do tilted horizons... dang, that'd be fun.... :-)
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11/07/2006 11:48:59 AM · #798 |
| Do you think anyone would notice? We could all compete for the brown ribbon. |
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11/07/2006 02:05:46 PM · #799 |
Speaking of brown ribbons, where do I get mine for the train challenge? As I pointed out to Don last night, I have already accomplished two of his goals (1 and 4). I'm good at tilted horizons too, but I always straighten them in PS because they are my big pet peeve.
On a more serious note, Mist has made a really good observation about the importance of the voters' monitors effecting the outcome of the challenges. My only computer is a laptop (hp pavillion with a wide shiny screen). I use it for all my photo work. I can't calibrate it, but it seems to produce fairly decent prints. We'll have to do some comparisons. |
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11/07/2006 02:10:55 PM · #800 |
Originally posted by JuliBoc:
Speaking of brown ribbons, where do I get mine for the train challenge? As I pointed out to Don last night, I have already accomplished two of his goals (1 and 4). I'm good at tilted horizons too, but I always straighten them in PS because they are my big pet peeve.
On a more serious note, Mist has made a really good observation about the importance of the voters' monitors effecting the outcome of the challenges. My only computer is a laptop (hp pavillion with a wide shiny screen). I use it for all my photo work. I can't calibrate it, but it seems to produce fairly decent prints. We'll have to do some comparisons. |
Do you have your own printer? or do you send photos out to be printed? |
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