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06/07/2008 04:34:58 PM · #1 |
Since there seems to be no shortage of threads of this nature -- why stop now? And of course "high scorer" depends on the photographer. One person's high score might be someone else's average. Maybe pick from your top five.
Here's my least favorite high scorer.
I like the composition, but when I look at it, I see a number of things I could have done better in post-processing. I'm always happy when my stuff scores high, but this shot up 0.2 or more in the last few hours of voting (beating out my other two 6.44xx photos -- must be my lucky number), and now it's my third place, so I have to look at it for a while.
If this takes off, I'll let someone else start the obvious companion thread.
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06/07/2008 04:43:20 PM · #2 |
6.5556 and 13th place
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06/07/2008 04:46:45 PM · #3 |
I'll play
I'll never understand why this scored a 7 in the Sports challenge
7s are pretty rare for me. I had this one pegged for a 6.
Then fast forwad about a year, This one I thought was much better (expression, moment, ball) and it scores a 6.1 in the ABC challenge
Both met the challenge and the technicals were good.
Go figure.
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06/07/2008 04:51:31 PM · #4 |
I'm happy that this one finally got out of my profile page :)
 with a 6.6109 |
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06/07/2008 05:01:03 PM · #5 |
I don't even remember seeing this when it happened. I took a couple hundred shots of fireworks that night, all with 1.5-2 second exposures hoping to catch something. |
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06/07/2008 05:08:28 PM · #6 |
Sadly, I suspect I shall never shift this one from my front page. |
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06/07/2008 05:17:33 PM · #7 |
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06/07/2008 05:26:30 PM · #8 |
This came in 13th, so it isn't one of my top 5, but it scored above 6.5.
It's my least proud because I took it to test a theory that surfing shots always score better than I think they should. It isn't that hard to do well; its generally bright so stop-motion is no problem, and it is very predictable.
It scored well, but I didn't really like it. |
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06/07/2008 05:34:19 PM · #9 |
 At the time I didn't have PS or Neat Image to work on the shot. |
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06/07/2008 05:48:25 PM · #10 |
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06/07/2008 07:56:17 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by idnic:
I don't like Shannon. :) |
Say you don't mean it!
Next thing you know, you will have something bad to say about Iceland! |
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06/07/2008 08:32:49 PM · #12 |
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06/07/2008 08:35:34 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by scarbrd:
I'll play
I'll never understand why this scored a 7 in the Sports challenge
7s are pretty rare for me. I had this one pegged for a 6.
Then fast forwad about a year, This one I thought was much better (expression, moment, ball) and it scores a 6.1 in the ABC challenge
Both met the challenge and the technicals were good.
Go figure. |
They both met the challenge but the first one was more obvious, which may have led to the more perfect votes it got. The challenge was sports and you clearly showed a sport. The other one you needed to show "anticipation" for it to meet the challenge and that's not as easy to show as a sport so you probably didn't meet the challenge strong enough in some eyes. Or maybe you just got unlucky and lost a bunch of 10 votes to the scrubber because those people didn't vote on 20%. :P
Message edited by author 2008-06-07 20:36:54.
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06/07/2008 08:39:24 PM · #14 |
Mine is probably this one. I like it but the basic ruleset forced my hand on some editing choices.
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06/07/2008 08:48:24 PM · #15 |
This one has been sitting in my #1 spot for almost 5 years now. My personal goal is to beat it as I really don't like it.
Granted the concept/idea was fine, but the photograph is flat out horrible. I took this with a P&S and ambient room lighting. Don't remember if I used a flash or not, but if I did, it was built in. I think the only reason is scored so high was because of the concept and not the execution. |
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06/07/2008 08:53:50 PM · #16 |
This shot bores me to tears. |
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06/07/2008 09:17:06 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by yanko:
Mine is probably this one. I like it but the basic ruleset forced my hand on some editing choices.
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I wasn't surprised that this won the blue, I was surprised at the whooper of a score. I figured it would score a 7+, but 7.7, WOWZA.
Still a lovely shot and trick PP for basic. Well deserved blue. |
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06/07/2008 09:18:00 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by SaraR:
Sadly, I suspect I shall never shift this one from my front page. |
Why would you want to? I'd be proud of this one if it were on my front page! :-) |
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06/07/2008 09:26:06 PM · #19 |
done under classic editing. This crazy shot scored over a 7; methinks I will NEVER get it off my front page. :/ |
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06/07/2008 09:26:28 PM · #20 |
This is the shot I least connect with in my top 10. It was pandering all the way. I find the image pleasing and I knew it would score well, but it has very little character to it - practically nothing of me in it. There are several other images like this in my higher scores. Many just entries to satisfy my entry addiction. |
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06/07/2008 09:50:35 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by scarbrd:
I wasn't surprised that this won the blue, I was surprised at the whooper of a score. I figured it would score a 7+, but 7.7, WOWZA. |
You would think with that score it would have won the blue but it didn't.  dwterry had to spoil the fun. :P At the time I was 0 for 3 in winning challenges when scoring 7.5 or higher so it stung a little.
As for the score itself, I agree. It was probably helped by the fact that there was only 87 entries in that one. Low number of entries usually means higher than normal scores for the ribbon winners.
Message edited by author 2008-06-07 23:28:43.
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06/07/2008 10:51:26 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by Nobody:
Originally posted by idnic:
I don't like Shannon. :) |
Say you don't mean it!
Next thing you know, you will have something bad to say about Iceland! |
Icelanders are weird! ;P
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06/07/2008 11:53:15 PM · #23 |
Place: 9 out of 206
Avg (all users): 6.6087
Avg (commenters): 8.0952
Avg (participants): 6.3048
Avg (non-participants): 6.8640
Views since voting: 2477
Views during voting: 323
Votes: 230
Comments: 24
Favorites: 3 (view)
I dont dislike it necessarily but its not much in the way of creative photography :) |
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06/08/2008 01:15:53 AM · #24 |
My 11th-highest scoring image is the first of my high-scorers I don't like, and the 12th and 14th images on my list I feel that way about also. The processing seems very clumsy to me on all 3 of them. They all finished right around 10th place though, so go figure...
  
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06/08/2008 01:38:04 AM · #25 |
It's not that I don't like this picture, I do. It's a neat little trick with Jenn as the ghost, but my #1 viewed image and #8 all time on DPC? I think not... |
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