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07/25/2007 03:30:47 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by hopper:
the original poster was asking about a good score - not what determines a good photographer - you've done well to explain the difference.
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
I would not agree with this as a rule at all. |
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thanks for putting in my place.. I'll be sure not to post anymore stupidity.
Message edited by author 2007-07-25 15:31:17. |
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07/25/2007 09:49:11 PM · #27 |
you've misunderstood me ... i was supporting your comment
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
Originally posted by hopper:
the original poster was asking about a good score - not what determines a good photographer - you've done well to explain the difference.
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
I would not agree with this as a rule at all. |
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thanks for putting in my place.. I'll be sure not to post anymore stupidity. |
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07/25/2007 10:43:43 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by hopper:
you've misunderstood me ... i was supporting your comment
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
Originally posted by hopper:
the original poster was asking about a good score - not what determines a good photographer - you've done well to explain the difference.
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
I would not agree with this as a rule at all. |
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thanks for putting in my place.. I'll be sure not to post anymore stupidity. |
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sorry about that then. Glad you agree with me about scores not making a photographer though:) |
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07/25/2007 10:51:07 PM · #29 |
| A good score is something that drives you happy. |
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07/25/2007 10:55:42 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by De Sousa:
A good score is something that drives you happy. |
yea your "bad scores" would make well over half the site happy:) |
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07/25/2007 10:56:22 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by De Sousa:
A good score is something that drives you happy. |
And a bad score is one that drives you crazy :-)
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07/25/2007 10:57:04 PM · #32 |
I aim for exactly 6.100 in every challenge which can be difficult sometimes so I have to do some over zealous post processing or apply a gaussien blur to soften the focal point or if that fails slightly disobey the rule of thirds.
Message edited by author 2007-07-25 22:58:25. |
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07/25/2007 11:02:33 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Not necessarily a bad thing to be "out of sync" with the voters, but it does get a bit frustrating.
I tend to look at placement in the particular challenge more favorably than score. If I place higher than 75% I feel good about the outcome.
 is good to have too :-) |
Yeah, I have to whole heartedly agree with this, anything above 75% is happy dance / toga party for me!! lol. This has only happened like 3 times for me though so...yeah, lol.
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07/26/2007 03:43:01 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Beating your own profile average is always a good score because each time you succeed, it raises the bar a little higher and forces you to work harder for the next shot. If you make that a serious goal and really make the effort to beat your average, you will improve over time (at least within the eyes of the DPC voters). |
That's assuming that working harder will make you score higher. I've had stretches where I've worked hard on a lot of images and they sit in the mid 5s, and other stretches where I've gotten two high six scorers from one sunset. Working harder will produce better images, but that doesn't necessarily mean better scores because of this little thing called DNMC. |
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07/26/2007 04:10:30 AM · #35 |
What is a "good" score on DPC? Flip the DPC world upside down and look at it from down under. I dare you. What if you took great delight in scoring lower than ever before, even for just one challenge?
Oddly some in the DPC community actually enjoy scoring really low in some selective challenges. Why? Freak shows, the bearded lady, 900 pound strong man, the amazing two-headed wonders and other oddities of the human circus. Or, perhaps, after fretting over trying to score in the 6's over and over only to be disappointed by a 4.9 score over and over, that someone would find a strange sense of release in willingly dashing down the cellar steps and hanging out in the basement for a period of time.
What a strange pleasure to score in the low 2's. Since the DPC gods have placed warnings on scoring 3 or lower without comments, it has gotten tougher and tougher to plunge into the deepest DPC cellar and score in the low 2's. Scoring the "Brown" Ribbon is easy. Scoring in the low 2's is tough, perhaps even tougher than winning a blue/red/yellow ribbon.
Check out the lowest rated photos in DPC history, and you'll see what an intense challenge your are "down" against in trying to score in the low 2's. Lowest 20 entries of all time are 2.181 and below! Try to underscore that score!
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07/26/2007 04:41:45 AM · #36 |
Originally posted by charliebaker:
What is a "good" score on DPC? Flip the DPC world upside down and look at it from down under. I dare you. What if you took great delight in scoring lower than ever before, even for just one challenge?
Oddly some in the DPC community actually enjoy scoring really low in some selective challenges. Why? Freak shows, the bearded lady, 900 pound strong man, the amazing two-headed wonders and other oddities of the human circus. Or, perhaps, after fretting over trying to score in the 6's over and over only to be disappointed by a 4.9 score over and over, that someone would find a strange sense of release in willingly dashing down the cellar steps and hanging out in the basement for a period of time.
What a strange pleasure to score in the low 2's. Since the DPC gods have placed warnings on scoring 3 or lower without comments, it has gotten tougher and tougher to plunge into the deepest DPC cellar and score in the low 2's. Scoring the "Brown" Ribbon is easy. Scoring in the low 2's is tough, perhaps even tougher than winning a blue/red/yellow ribbon.
Check out the lowest rated photos in DPC history, and you'll see what an intense challenge your are "down" against in trying to score in the low 2's. Lowest 20 entries of all time are 2.181 and below! Try to underscore that score! |
Failure is not an option!
( Please don't look at my profile site :O ) |
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07/26/2007 05:29:00 AM · #37 |
Originally posted by focuspoint:
Failure is not an option! |
On the contrary, some of our wisest writers have viewed failure as one of the truest expressions of what it means to be a free, creative, growing human being. Here is a small sampler of such wisdom found in failure:
Robert F. Kennedy:
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
George Bernard Shaw:
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
John Dewey:
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Mohandas K. Gandhi:
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Paulo Coelho:
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Oscar Wilde:
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Robert F. Kennedy:
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Winston Churchill:
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Gandhi:
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
Helen Keller
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. |
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