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03/07/2008 06:11:29 PM · #126 |
Originally posted by Kelli:
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That's the best part. :-) |
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03/08/2008 06:52:24 AM · #127 |
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03/08/2008 07:41:30 AM · #128 |
Wow thanks for that post. Kids awesome and the funny thing is that I always wanted to play that solo correctly....and now I can. ;) |
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03/08/2008 07:53:26 PM · #129 |
| That is flippin' AMAZING!!!!!!!!! So glad that you posted this! |
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03/08/2008 10:15:22 PM · #130 |
Votes: 155
Views: 327
Avg Vote: 6.5742
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0 |
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03/09/2008 08:55:47 AM · #131 |
Votes: 161
Views: 294
Avg Vote: 6.1988
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 |
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03/09/2008 08:57:58 AM · #132 |
Votes: 163
Views: 344
Avg Vote: 6.4724
Comments: 9 |
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03/09/2008 11:33:52 AM · #133 |
Votes: 165
Views: 318
Avg Vote: 6.3030
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1
happy! |
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03/09/2008 10:05:57 PM · #134 |
Dang! That kid can play!!
Votes: 168
Views: 299
Avg Vote: 6.4286
Comments: 8 |
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03/09/2008 10:36:28 PM · #135 |
good comments abound but still only.....
Votes: 159
Views: 284
Avg Vote: 5.4340
Comments: 10
but some people understand my vision and I really appreciate the comments, they always help! |
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03/09/2008 10:39:31 PM · #136 |
| The last minute trolls are showing up. They never dissapoint me ;) |
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03/10/2008 06:16:38 AM · #137 |
O.K., I'm baffled again. I'm not complaining or whining. My score was not that good, O.K., so maybe the picture's not that great. But how do I get past the fact that everybody's taste is SO much different than mine? What got great scores in this challenge I mostly though..."eh". What I think is cool and illustrative gets 4s and 5s.
Am I really supposed to be getting the concept of "eye-candy" more? If it's pretty and flashy, sharp and contrasty or colorful, who gives a flip if it's emotive or illustrative or fits the challenge? Arrrrrgh.
Yes, there are a few outstanding photographs in this challenge. But IMHO, some of the top 20 look like they thumbed through the list of song titles, never listened to one, but made a pic to fit the title. AND SCORED!!!
Sorry. Frustration and confustion in my feeble photgraphic mind. Surely I'm not the only one ever to feel this way. Just a rant.
Oh...lovely...just going through the places...A G.D. HOTDOG, with admittedly no thought or concern or interest for the challenge, SCORED 24 places better than mine.
Again...sorry...this just sucks.
Message edited by author 2008-03-10 11:23:54. |
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03/10/2008 09:14:35 AM · #138 |
Originally posted by farfel53:
... But IMHO, some of the top 20 look like they thumbed through the list of song titles, never listened to one, but made a pic to fit the title. AND SCORED!!! |
No offense, Michael/Farfel, but what did you expect? That only Led Zeppelin fans be allowed to vote, or that voters listen to each song before voting? :-)
I'm not knocking you for feeling frustration, by the way. I wasn't bothered by my own low score until I saw some of the photos that scored higher. I'm not arguing that my photo is better, I just liked it myself. But as has been discussed ad nauseum this week (and many times before), trying to predict or control how voters vote is a chump's game.
Keep shooting,
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03/10/2008 09:39:57 AM · #139 |
Originally posted by citymars:
Originally posted by farfel53:
... But IMHO, some of the top 20 look like they thumbed through the list of song titles, never listened to one, but made a pic to fit the title. AND SCORED!!! |
No offense, Michael/Farfel, but what did you expect? That only Led Zeppelin fans be allowed to vote, or that voters listen to each song before voting? :-)
I'm not knocking you for feeling frustration, by the way. I wasn't bothered by my own low score until I saw some of the photos that scored higher. I'm not arguing that my photo is better, I just liked it myself. But as has been discussed ad nauseum this week (and many times before), trying to predict or control how voters vote is a chump's game.
Keep shooting, |
Yep. Guess I'm playing the chump's game, all right. What really threw it over the top was the hot dog. |
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03/10/2008 11:16:30 AM · #140 |
| having a good chuckle at those who thought it WAS just a photo of Robert Plant....nope! And I don't give a flying rat's ass that it finished way near the bottom...so far as I'm concerned, mkssion accomplished! :-) |
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03/10/2008 01:01:17 PM · #141 |
Originally posted by farfel53:
A G.D. HOTDOG, with admittedly no thought or concern or interest for the challenge, SCORED 24 places better than mine. Again...sorry...this just sucks. |
I kind of agree with you on all the tangerine and tea shots, but I do find it funny that you went off on the hot dog, when your own entry was just a picture of a bridge. True, you riffed on the line at the end of the Crunge, but the bridge Plant was talking about there was the musical bridge in the song, which is why it ended so abruptly -- not some piece of metal spanning a river. Now if you had shot a half finished bridge ending in mid air, now THAT would have been a 10 in my book. But, imo, I don't think your bridge was all that more involved with the song then the hot dog. Just my two cents. (btw I gave you a 6). |
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03/10/2008 01:07:16 PM · #142 |
| Susan, I thought your Robert Plant shot totally rocked, to use a phrase appropriate to this challenge. In fact, methinks it's OOBIE worthy. Where's that thread anyway?? |
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03/10/2008 02:20:03 PM · #143 |
Originally posted by farfel53:
Yes, there are a few outstanding photographs in this challenge. But IMHO, some of the top 20 look like they thumbed through the list of song titles, never listened to one, but made a pic to fit the title. AND SCORED!!!
Sorry. Frustration and confustion in my feeble photgraphic mind. Surely I'm not the only one ever to feel this way. |
I thought my entry really captured the feel of Led Zeppelin and had several comments to that affect. And although it did alright I really thought it was better than some of the higher placed entries and could have done better.
It's just the nature of the game and for me it's not about winning ribbons. It's about improving my photographic skills which have increased significantly since I joined a month ago.
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03/10/2008 02:30:35 PM · #144 |
I agree that it's not about high scores. I'll restate my concern from earlier: I'm having a hard time reconciling what "I" like with what the seeming "majority" likes and finds worthy of higher marks and comments. I am simply going to have to get a grip on that "who gives a flip" attitude, then shoot, vote and comment what I feel, and let all those shallow fools who disagree with me go merrily on their way. HA!
But thanks for the opportunity to vent. |
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03/10/2008 03:09:13 PM · #145 |
Originally posted by EstimatedEyes:
Originally posted by farfel53:
A G.D. HOTDOG, with admittedly no thought or concern or interest for the challenge, SCORED 24 places better than mine. Again...sorry...this just sucks. |
I kind of agree with you on all the tangerine and tea shots, but I do find it funny that you went off on the hot dog, when your own entry was just a picture of a bridge. True, you riffed on the line at the end of the Crunge, but the bridge Plant was talking about there was the musical bridge in the song, which is why it ended so abruptly -- not some piece of metal spanning a river. Now if you had shot a half finished bridge ending in mid air, now THAT would have been a 10 in my book. But, imo, I don't think your bridge was all that more involved with the song then the hot dog. Just my two cents. (btw I gave you a 6). |
I had actually considered the musical aspect, but having never "seen" such a bridge, I couldn't think of an effective way to present where the confounded thing could be found. My sense of humor is apparently wasted. Next time I'll just post a bagel with cream cheese. |
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03/10/2008 03:57:36 PM · #146 |
Originally posted by farfel53:
Originally posted by EstimatedEyes:
Originally posted by farfel53:
A G.D. HOTDOG, with admittedly no thought or concern or interest for the challenge, SCORED 24 places better than mine. Again...sorry...this just sucks. |
I kind of agree with you on all the tangerine and tea shots, but I do find it funny that you went off on the hot dog, when your own entry was just a picture of a bridge. True, you riffed on the line at the end of the Crunge, but the bridge Plant was talking about there was the musical bridge in the song, which is why it ended so abruptly -- not some piece of metal spanning a river. Now if you had shot a half finished bridge ending in mid air, now THAT would have been a 10 in my book. But, imo, I don't think your bridge was all that more involved with the song then the hot dog. Just my two cents. (btw I gave you a 6). |
I had actually considered the musical aspect, but having never "seen" such a bridge, I couldn't think of an effective way to present where the confounded thing could be found. My sense of humor is apparently wasted. Next time I'll just post a bagel with cream cheese. |
I'm here licking my wounds with yous all, but I must say  skewsme's on the money with Originally posted by skewsme:
for the dazed and confused out there - what is being illustrated is a song title or a snippet of song lyric - ain't nobody's fault but yours if you expect a challenge entry to reflect the mood and context of an entire song! |
Doesn't matter a whole lot in terms of the big - er - picture, maybe. Interesting to speculate on what might happen if the challenge description specified that a piece of music and/or a song should be illustrated in the entirety of its ethos by the photograph, and not just a snippet of lyrics or the title removed from the context. [rant]I suspect that a plain object on a plain background under studio lights would get 5.5 if it didn't have noise, didn't have sharpening artifacts and was in focus and the voter 'knew what (s)he was supposed to be looking at' and on and on - even if it was ostensibly representing the life and works of J.S.Bach.[/rant] |
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03/10/2008 04:19:29 PM · #147 |
Hi, I entered "one of tea shots" and got a personal best at 6.05. Still, I'm not all that happy. The thing is that I don't have a clue about Led Zeppelin's music, so I just googled, found a title of a song - "tea for one" - and made a "brain-less" but "eye-candy" type of shot. I did it just to see how well it would score compared to my usual shots which are often a lot more "Out of the box", creative or even political (guess which one, no-one has even commented on it yet!).
Looking at the statistics, what separates my tea-shot from my other photos is that it:
* doesn't get a single "one"-score
* received almost no comments
* got above 6 in average score.
* got almost half of its vote in a single bin (6) - very small standard deviation!
* got 8 in average score from users without a camera (but how many are they?). Anyway, the non-camera scores were MUCH higher than the with camera-scores.
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03/10/2008 05:17:25 PM · #148 |
raish - yes, you should be licking wounds. That was a wonderful shot, way under-appreciated IMO.
Some of the difficulty may be in enjoying and appreciating such music, putting some emotion and craftsmanship in the interpretation, and getting largely no notice out of the audience.
My shot was not that great, I am no where near the craftsman that so many of you are, though I am intending to learn. However, I DID put some time and effort into it, I did not "mistakenly" oversaturate leaving a yellow sky, but made it that way to reflect the coloring and tone of the cover of "Houses of the Holy", with a little wry twist for humor.
But to be soundly thrashed by offhanded mechanical "perfection", with very little actual interpretation, by SO many entries, is just a little hard to take.
But...I'm going try some more, just cuz' it's so much damn fun, EH???
Cheers!
Mike
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03/10/2008 06:38:56 PM · #149 |
| The voters didn't much care for the orange/yellow in my image either, lol. That's OK though. I like it, and my daughter had a lot of fun posing. |
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03/10/2008 09:24:59 PM · #150 |
Originally posted by farfel53:
raish - yes, you should be licking wounds. That was a wonderful shot, way under-appreciated IMO.
Some of the difficulty may be in enjoying and appreciating such music, putting some emotion and craftsmanship in the interpretation, and getting largely no notice out of the audience.
My shot was not that great, I am no where near the craftsman that so many of you are, though I am intending to learn. However, I DID put some time and effort into it, I did not "mistakenly" oversaturate leaving a yellow sky, but made it that way to reflect the coloring and tone of the cover of "Houses of the Holy", with a little wry twist for humor.
But to be soundly thrashed by offhanded mechanical "perfection", with very little actual interpretation, by SO many entries, is just a little hard to take.
But...I'm going try some more, just cuz' it's so much damn fun, EH???
Cheers!
Mike |
That's the best attitude to take here, Mike...shoot to please yourself, and have fun and learn in the process. |
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