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 09/01/2003 12:13:56 AM · #1

Lionel

Message edited by author 2003-09-01 00:21:54.
 09/01/2003 12:34:28 AM · #2
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Message edited by author 2003-09-01 10:56:51.
 09/01/2003 01:58:11 AM · #3
I figured as an aspiring wanna-be, I'd just post one picture and ask for comments. I have yet to receive a single comment (granted, it's in a forum, not a gallery).

So I've decided to get more active (well, active) and leave comments of my own.
 09/01/2003 03:25:07 AM · #4
I'm just back from a week away and couldn't vote or comment during that time, but the results of the Monuments challenge is seriously uninspiring.

I did get some commments though, which may be down to the fact that my shot was a bit more off the wall compared to the more conventional show of US strength demonstrated by the some of the top 20.
"Have fun and be creative." ???
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=34115

Mavrik, I've got to say that your shot may have suffered from this lack of inspiration too - what is there to comment on? And to stop commenting doesn't make sense - it's like refusing to let someone out of a turning ever again because a few people didn't show any gratitude as they drove off.

This is one challenge that really should have rewarded creativity rather than a well-known or heroic subject.

Message edited by author 2003-09-01 05:11:48.
 09/01/2003 03:41:56 AM · #5
I haven't taken part in any of the challenges since last 4 weeks.... Although I was banking on the monuments challenge as just before it was announced I had opened a thread as a sugession for the same.
Link here: //dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=37711
But it turned that it was a "members only" challenge.

Also the voting for such a great theme atleast from the aspect that everyone got to see worldwide history sucks bigtime.

Then again it's just me probably!!

Message edited by author 2003-09-01 03:42:42.
 09/01/2003 07:29:05 AM · #6
Originally posted by lionelm:

Lionel


come on Lionel - spit it out!!

:-)


09/01/2003 08:55:16 AM · #7
Nothing really to 'spit out'.

I just feel 'out of sync' after this challenge. I removed my message because I did not want at all to look like I am asking why my shot did so bad or that I am constesting the numbe of 1s or thintgs like that. I am not interested at all in that.

Voters rules. The winner was in my top 3 this week. But other than that
I thought the quality was not very good. Some statue shot were really what I would call 'study of light' (and in my top 10), some others were, I think, not good at all. That's why my rank for this shot disapoint me a lot. Middle of the pack would have make me happy but 84/96. So i guess almost everybody did a good shot and I did a bad one.

Maybe my shot was not creative, or 'bad creativity'. It does not mater that much. I am still happy I did it. Happy i submitted it ? certainly not ( I had other really shots that did bad but never that feeling ). Still my strongest 'political picture' so far ;-)

Anyhow .... wanted to say that becasuse it looks silly to have an empty message at the beginning of the thread, which I should not have start.

Lionel

Message edited by author 2003-09-01 08:56:54.
 09/01/2003 09:09:05 AM · #8
I gave ya a 7! I thought it was very humorous and was very creative for this challenge!
I only beat ya by four places, and I am not sure why mine did so bad. I thought I did a halfway decent job technically and catching some good morning sunlight...oh well...that is the way of the voters. And only 6 comments, and none really that mentioned why it is below average.
 09/01/2003 09:10:30 AM · #9
Originally posted by lionelm:
Still my strongest 'political picture' so far ;-)

Agreed - I would give it an 8 but then most of the shots that I like end up waaaaay awry
 09/01/2003 09:48:40 AM · #10
Originally posted by lionelm:

Maybe my shot was not creative, or 'bad creativity'. It does not mater that much. I am still happy I did it. Happy i submitted it ? certainly not ( I had other really shots that did bad but never that feeling ). Still my strongest 'political picture' so far ;-)


It is actually creative! It makes a statement.
And it does it in a clever, visually appealing way. I gave it 8.

And I wish this was within the top five (..actually at the very top):
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=34659
09/01/2003 03:10:05 PM · #11
Originally posted by ccjp:
Originally posted by lionelm:

Maybe my shot was not creative, or 'bad creativity'. It does not mater that much. I am still happy I did it. Happy i submitted it ? certainly not ( I had other really shots that did bad but never that feeling ). Still my strongest 'political picture' so far ;-)


It is actually creative! It makes a statement.
And it does it in a clever, visually appealing way. I gave it 8.

I agree. I thought your entry was either "risky" or "risque" and neither one traditionally does well here, but it's important to keep trying.

I set the threshhold for an "effective" picture pretty low; if one person is moved or amused, that's really good enough.
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