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09/22/2007 10:50:01 AM · #1 |
| Capture an image that is both artful and creative with a sense of design, imagination and aesthetics. Something more than you'd see at a stock site - perhaps more avant garde. ;~D |
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09/22/2007 01:37:19 PM · #2 |
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09/22/2007 01:38:19 PM · #3 |
reckon the voters'd have a tough time with a challenge like this ... its possible that some of the very best images might cop a lot of very low scores .. it happens to me ALL THE TIME ... lol lol .... but hey, BRING IT ON !!!!!!!!
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09/22/2007 02:27:54 PM · #4 |
| Yeah really, 1st place with a 5.3. Hahaha. |
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10/06/2007 12:48:07 AM · #5 |
Jutilda is on a roll...ok I am really slow to respond but I think this is another wonderful idea of hers, a challenge called Avant Garde, and with special rules whereby  posthumous and  zeuszen get to kick people out for being too DPC...the forums afterward would be so much fun... |
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10/06/2007 01:08:38 AM · #6 |
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10/06/2007 03:17:41 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by bucket:
Jutilda is on a roll...ok I am really slow to respond but I think this is another wonderful idea of hers, a challenge called Avant Garde... |
For gawdsake, don't call if "avante garde" or people will have a narrow mental concept of what 'style' is appropriate, which I don't think is Jutilda's idea at all.
But it's a lovely challenge idea, yes it is.
R.
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10/06/2007 03:51:32 AM · #8 |
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10/06/2007 08:29:38 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by bucket:
Jutilda is on a roll...ok I am really slow to respond but I think this is another wonderful idea of hers, a challenge called Avant Garde... |
For gawdsake, don't call if "avante garde" or people will have a narrow mental concept of what 'style' is appropriate, which I don't think is Jutilda's idea at all.
But it's a lovely challenge idea, yes it is.
R. |
oh I completely agree with you...but it would be interesting you have to admit, in a warped kind of way to watch people 'discussing' their concepts while the 2 moderators come in a destroy them...and hey lets add you as the perfect third judge! |
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10/06/2007 08:41:15 AM · #10 |
| This sounds thoroughly amusing. |
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10/06/2007 06:51:48 PM · #11 |
Well, I'm flattered, but I'm not sure Zeus, Posthumous, or I would think our concepts of "avante garde" are the be-all and end-all of the issue. Anyway, you'd end up with people trying to guess what would please US, which I suppose is different than guessing what would please the voters-as-a-whole, but I'm not sure this is any improvement on anything, you know?
R.
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10/06/2007 07:24:33 PM · #12 |
it could be worse, the suggestion could be to make it edgy
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10/06/2007 07:25:31 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
the voters-as-a-whole, |
That just sounds wrong. Could link in to another of the what is art ? threads going on just now.
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10/06/2007 11:52:51 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Well, I'm flattered, but I'm not sure Zeus, Posthumous, or I would think our concepts of "avante garde" are the be-all and end-all of the issue. Anyway, you'd end up with people trying to guess what would please US, which I suppose is different than guessing what would please the voters-as-a-whole, but I'm not sure this is any improvement on anything, you know?
R. |
not an improvement..just an opportunity to make people step back and not take things too seriously...
and really I am not being all too serious, I just think it would create the ultimate in forum ranting... |
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10/07/2007 12:07:12 AM · #15 |
| zeus is the be-all and I am the end-all. Together, you would all be doomed... I mean saved... |
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10/07/2007 12:51:23 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by Jutilda:
Capture an image that is both artful and creative with a sense of design, imagination and aesthetics. Something more than you'd see at a stock site - perhaps more avant garde. ;~D |
Great idea, and the winner will be a stock image ;) |
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10/07/2007 12:53:05 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by De Sousa:
Originally posted by Jutilda:
Capture an image that is both artful and creative with a sense of design, imagination and aesthetics. Something more than you'd see at a stock site - perhaps more avant garde. ;~D |
Great idea, and the winner will be a stock image ;) |
Shot by DeSouza no doubt? Jejeje�
R.
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10/07/2007 12:53:34 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
zeus is the be-all and I am the end-all. Together, you would all be doomed... I mean saved... |
And I am the eat-all; you all shall be CONSUMED!
R.
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10/07/2007 01:32:26 AM · #19 |
| I think it would be a cool challenge. Yeah, a stock shot would win. Then by the vote of the majority of Don, Zeus, and Bear, it would be DQ'd. And it would only be fitting that the winning score would be 5.3. I'd get a kick out of voting such a challenge. |
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10/07/2007 01:33:47 AM · #20 |
It's soooo anti-DPC it just might work.
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10/07/2007 01:42:51 AM · #21 |
Great idea. Won't change what wins but it would still be great fun to shoot for it and see what type of comments you get.
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10/07/2007 02:01:54 AM · #22 |
| Hmn... "artful and creative with a sense of design, imagination and aesthetics." Actually that pretty much sums up what a photo should be. What have we done wrong? |
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10/07/2007 02:08:29 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by tnun:
Hmn... "artful and creative with a sense of design, imagination and aesthetics." Actually that pretty much sums up what a photo should be. What have we done wrong? |
Forgetting the artful, creative and imagination parts?
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10/07/2007 02:18:19 AM · #24 |
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10/07/2007 02:26:10 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by tnun:
I was almost serious. |
It's actually a good question. Plenty of DPC images have those qualities and win ribbons.
Hmn... "artful and creative with a sense of design, imagination and aesthetics." Actually that pretty much sums up what a photo should be. What have we done wrong?
"Artful" is not the same as, say, "artistic"; a craft can be artful, one can be artfully skilled at a game, and so forth. "Creative" is a loaded term, means something different to different people. "Design" and "Aesthetics" are commonalities of MANY DPC ribboning images.
"Imagination" sometimes we seem to be a little short on, if not as shooters then as voters; I grant you that.
It seems to me that if anything is missing, any component that makes DPC-winning images, as a broad whole, seem more "commercial" than "artistic", it's a lack of soul, of spirit, of emotional component. And that's something I look to "art" to provide, that "design" does not, or usually does not.
But it's not just an issue of how we shoot, it's an issue of how we VOTE. If more intimate, more penetrating, more topical, more involving images were regularly rewarded, well then we'd see more of them.
It's my sense that this is what the OP is after. It's certainly something that Zeus and Posthumous passionately espouse, as do many others.
R.
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