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04/08/2007 07:01:29 PM · #1 |
March started well for me. One of my photos came first on one of the smaller photography sites - my first 'ribbon' for a photo anywhere.
As both the number of participants and voters there is small, I decided it would be a good idea to test it out at dpc as it fitted into the date requirements for free study. As this is a challenge in which there are always wonderful entries, I certainly had no expectations of a ribbon. I wasn't even sure that it would make a 6. However, never in my wildest dreams did I expect it to do as badly as it did - 5.03, after being in the 4.8-4.9 range for the entire voting period (excluding April Fools' Day). Yet those who bothered to comment were fairly positive about it.
After this, I really haven't a clue what to enter and am starting to wonder why I bother.
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04/08/2007 07:15:44 PM · #2 |
| Doesn't look like many people "hated" it but you have to admit it is a pretty uninteresting subject and nothing particularly unique about the presentation or lighting. What about it, in your opinion, brings it above average? |
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04/08/2007 07:16:44 PM · #3 |
Well In my opinian the reason it didn't do very well is that it was entered in a free study, the scoring is really tough in the free studies, I feel it would have scored a full point higher in a regular challenge, I'm not sure why this is exactly but that has been my experience...Great shot by the way!! I'd give it a 7.
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04/08/2007 07:18:58 PM · #4 |
I'm not being horrible or anything, just saying why in my opinion it didn't score well. You asked :)
Firstly the subject isn't very interesting to me. I see zips every day. It's closer than I normally see one, but other than that there's nothing unique about it. There is no interesting lighting and just the one element in the whole frame. It also seems overly contrasty to me, and that makes the patterns in the denim hard to look at, it hurts my eyes after a while. Also, it's not sharp, it looks like you may have tried to sharpen it on the wrong radius which could explain the contrastyness too. The angle is flat on and the composition is centered, no interest really added there. To be very honest I would have scored it a 3 or 4. There's just nothing to it that makes me want to vote higher.
I think it probably did well on the smaller site because, just as was the case on DPC in the very early days, people not exposed to as much photography as we are here may see it and think "wow, that's really close!" or something, I dunno. Here, most people have probably taken the same shot,I know I have... "Hmm, I've got my macro lens on, now what?" I look down... "Ah ha!".
Also don't forget that it was in a free study. People expect much more in them and there was much much much higher competition than normal. That would also have something to do with it.
Sorry if I sound mean here, just trying to say it how I see it, rather than sugar coating it :)
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04/08/2007 07:19:53 PM · #5 |
| What was the other site? People are spoilt here with some of the amazing talent on offer, and as a result images have to really stand out to place anywhere. |
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04/08/2007 07:27:48 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Simms:
What was the other site? People are spoilt here with some of the amazing talent on offer, and as a result images have to really stand out to place anywhere. |
The other site was //www.fotofight.com I've seen some pretty awesome stuff there too, and there are other dpc members who enter challenges there, so I would have thought they know what's good and what isn't. The scores there do seem to be higher in general, but as I said, I didn't expect this image to place here. I just didn't expect it to do quite as badly as it did.
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04/08/2007 07:41:32 PM · #7 |
Here's a link to the specific challenge mentioned.
One thought is that on that site there were only 29 votes for your image and only 29 images. Much less than the 146 votes your received here and the 558 images. One can generally not please everyone and the greater number of voters here would seem to imply there would be less people you will please resulting in lower scores. It may also be that people are judging the photo against the others in the challenge and not merely on the photo's individual merit. So with more entries it's probable that there will be a greater number of better images which would also push a score down. |
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