Whatever happened to....Team Suck

11/26/2006 08:53:40 PM · #1202

But there are levels of suckiness. Not to suck "too bad" is still a sucky picture. It's just not the ultimate. I'm sure it will be a 5 or less.

noraneko

Canon EOS R5

11/26/2006 10:44:41 PM · #1203

Hello, fellow Suckees!
I just entered light on white. And boy, does it suck! I'm going to do our team proud. I've never tried this type of photo before (and it shows) but I'm hoping to get some constructive criticism and hopefully learn more for next time. If I get a 5.0 I'll be really, really lucky.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

11/26/2006 10:50:04 PM · #1204

I'm pretty sure that I'm entering something for light on white and I'm pretty sure it will suck.

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

11/27/2006 12:16:47 AM · #1205

I'm in Light on White and wasn't even planning to be - don't know if that's good or bad, but probably bad. I'm also in diagonal and that one was kinda planned, so it should be worse. :-) Going to spend my day today househunting. Must find a place to live!! Hotel is adequate and the staff is friendly and they speak English, but I miss my stuff - particularly my big widescreen monitor thingie...

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

11/27/2006 12:24:25 AM · #1206

Let the sucking begin...

Light on White III

Votes: 3
Views: 4
Avg Vote: 4.3333
Comments: 0
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 11/27/06 12:23 am

levyj413

Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max

11/27/2006 12:49:24 AM · #1207

Originally posted by posthumous:

Let the sucking begin...

Light on White III

Votes: 3
Views: 4
Avg Vote: 4.3333
Comments: 0
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 11/27/06 12:23 am

Now, now, Don. Let's remember that you predicted a 6+ in postcards and got it! Take at least an hour to celebrate that. :)

For the first time since joining, I'm going to bed basking in my score. Given how well perspective is going, I might not even look at this score until Wed.

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

11/27/2006 02:09:41 AM · #1208

Hmm. My light on white is currently at 4.2. So on course for a personal worst score ever. Fantastic. Maybe next time I just wont bother putting any effort into the shot and I'll get 6.

Edit - My score went down accompanied by a positive comment. Go figure.

Message edited by author 2006-11-27 02:13:29.

sickdog

Sony DSC-F828

11/27/2006 03:30:21 AM · #1209

Originally posted by kdsprog:

But there are levels of suckiness. Not to suck "too bad" is still a sucky picture. It's just not the ultimate. I'm sure it will be a 5 or less.

since i have joined team suck i find i suck even less...

im sure you're pic is going to rock.

quiet_observation

Canon EOS-7D

11/27/2006 05:37:20 AM · #1210

Wish you were here!

Team Novice --

Team Minus --

The Hoovers --

The Out of Focusers --

Team Entropy --

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

11/27/2006 07:29:20 AM · #1211

Ohhh... once again my entry is really sucking, and I like it. Still trying to figure out if I'm a bad judge or a bad photographer. Of course there is a third possibility ... a STUPID public. Ya, that's the ticket.

Light on White III
Votes: 33
Views: 47
Avg Vote: 3.9697

p.s. No comments either. I guess that pop-up message isn't going to have any effect after all. With 33 votes and an average below 4, there should be about 20 comments by now.

Message edited by author 2006-11-27 07:42:56.

Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

11/27/2006 07:32:30 AM · #1212

Shows what I know...

Light on White III

Votes: 39
Views: 46
Avg Vote: 3.7179
Comments: 2

Maybe I should not try! I don't mean that in a discouraged way, what I mean is I spent time setting up, taking the shot, another hour editing. Blah, blah, blah. For a sub 4 shot. My other entry is still above 5. No time, no energy, no real thought, no editing. Go figure. It's the one's I don't think about that do OK (or sometimes even well).

quiet_observation

Canon EOS-7D

11/27/2006 07:43:44 AM · #1213

You guys should feel great that you entered the Light on White. I felt anything I would do with this would suck so bad so I didn't even try. I have a probable 4 entry in diagonal.

James Bond will be another member challenge pass for me.

11/27/2006 08:13:09 AM · #1214

I really do get the feeling that I shouldn't have bothered with light on white though. It's dragging in loads of "4" votes (or lower) with no explanations at all. The only comment so far is one from someone who says it's a great photo. I actually agree, but it's still sucking.

Really unsure now whether to bother entering the conceptually similar photo I had for diagonal.

noraneko

Canon EOS R5

11/27/2006 08:52:08 AM · #1215

Good morning fellow Suckees! Suckage I predicted, suckage coming to fruition. Actually, my Light on White is slightly better than I'd expected, and that is not saying much.

Votes: 37
Views: 48
Avg Vote: 4.9459
Comments: 2
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0

I looked at the past light on white challenges, and scores were overall low. This may follow the same trend, as it is a difficult challenge.

noraneko

Canon EOS R5

11/27/2006 08:54:13 AM · #1216

By the way, great postcards overall from Team Suck! I wondered if the WWII memorial postcard was yours, Levy, as you're from DC. In fact, I'd go so far as to say...none of the postcards truly suck :-)

11/27/2006 09:27:15 AM · #1217

I should have known not to enter such a vague challenge. Doubtless people are voting my photo down because they are thinking it's either

a) not a white background
or
b) not "light".

Of course, they're not leaving any comments to say either way, so who knows. It's just wild speculation.

4.3333

Sigh.

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

11/27/2006 09:28:15 AM · #1218

Originally posted by noraneko:

By the way, great postcards overall from Team Suck! I wondered if the WWII memorial postcard was yours, Levy, as you're from DC. In fact, I'd go so far as to say...none of the postcards truly suck :-)

Mine was a rooky mistake. With wider DOF I think it could have scored a lot higher. As it was, it didn't actually make 5, or my front page.

snaffles

Nikon D7100

11/27/2006 10:05:38 AM · #1219

I ended up not entering light on white as my pic was sooo boring. However I did enter Famous Last Words so hopefully voters will appreciate my sick sense of humour...

must go check out new challenges now!

snaffles

Nikon D7100

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

11/27/2006 10:18:25 AM · #1220

Glad I didn't enter L.O.W., my entry would've definitely got 3.5s. Lots of interesting pics!

The James Bond challenge sounds like a blast - now which movie had the bad guy with the fluffy cat?

levyj413

Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

11/27/2006 10:46:32 AM · #1221

Originally posted by mist:

Originally posted by noraneko:
By the way, great postcards overall from Team Suck! I wondered if the WWII memorial postcard was yours, Levy, as you're from DC. In fact, I'd go so far as to say...none of the postcards truly suck :-)

Mine was a rooky mistake. With wider DOF I think it could have scored a lot higher. As it was, it didn't actually make 5, or my front page.

I left you a comment, David. I think you could get a much better result with another crack at processing.

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

11/27/2006 11:06:29 AM · #1222

I thought all the Team Suck postcards were pretty much anti-suck. What's up with you guys? Those were some really great postcards. I'm thinkin' you all might have to sit out a week or something...

I've got a lovely mediocre score going in Light on White - 5.4. Edit - 5.3 after this last update Expecting slightly less than that in Diagonal, but I'll take it. Perspective has been steadily falling today and I don't have very many comments (4) but it's still above 6. Totally befuddling.

Pretty sure I won't be in "Bond" unless something falls in my lap. And even then I wouldn't know it. Heh.

Message edited by author 2006-11-27 11:08:24.

11/27/2006 11:24:24 AM · #1223

I scored the postcard challenge high. I really enjoyed it. I was happy with my score, but got a little tired of comments about my font. It's a courier font. It is gritty, you know, like Gotham/NYC gritty, like downtown gritty, like hardboiled journalist gritty, like typewriters and booze and filthy apartments. (So I was extremely gratified by

Melethia's comment. Thank you!)

I liked

mist's fuzzy little postcard. I gave it a 7. I think it's just the right kind of fuzzy to look like a postcard, probably from the 70s.

My light-on-white is safely out of the box and under 5, though I got a very nice comment from uber-OOBer

klstover. It sounded like it may have been a little too far out of the box even for her, though! haha

k4ffy

11/27/2006 11:36:58 AM · #1224

hey guys, been absent for a while, sorry about that OOFers. will try and enter a challenge or two this week, though. have been really busy.