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01/20/2009 12:02:42 AM · #277

Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Agreed Richard. However, it's possible one's style differs enough that 1x represents a different road. To be accepted there doesn't reflect "improvement" as much as "change". I'm not saying I have all the skill I need and I don't need to strive to improve. Harldy. But I'm getting the picture (quite clearly) that my style doesn't work at 1x. Instead of abandoning the progress I've made in the 3 years I've been here and trying to hop on the 1x express, I think I should just continue to progress along the road I've chosen.

De Sousa gave a name to my road. I am a "pop artist". 1x does not encourage pop art.

Very interesting observation that works if you insert "DPC" for "1x" for some of us. :-) Not implying that my work in particular is as good as Doc's (he makes money with his, for instance), but we do have some "artists" here who are VERY good and will never score well at DPC for the reasons Doc is having problems with 1x. I don't know if they have named their roads.

yanko

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

01/20/2009 12:16:12 AM · #278

Originally posted by Melethia:

Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Agreed Richard. However, it's possible one's style differs enough that 1x represents a different road. To be accepted there doesn't reflect "improvement" as much as "change". I'm not saying I have all the skill I need and I don't need to strive to improve. Harldy. But I'm getting the picture (quite clearly) that my style doesn't work at 1x. Instead of abandoning the progress I've made in the 3 years I've been here and trying to hop on the 1x express, I think I should just continue to progress along the road I've chosen.

De Sousa gave a name to my road. I am a "pop artist". 1x does not encourage pop art.

Very interesting observation that works if you insert "DPC" for "1x" for some of us. :-) Not implying that my work in particular is as good as Doc's (he makes money with his, for instance), but we do have some "artists" here who are VERY good and will never score well at DPC for the reasons Doc is having problems with 1x. I don't know if they have named their roads.

Wait, he's making money off of his art? That means he's not an artist. Whew. For a second there I thought the world ended. :P

Just kidding Doc!

DrAchoo

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5

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01/20/2009 12:43:51 AM · #279

I'd probably do better if I came up with the real artistic stuff like this...

Lonely

Message edited by author 2009-01-20 00:44:25.

karmat

Apple iPhone 7

01/20/2009 12:54:38 AM · #280

Originally posted by DrAchoo:

I'd probably do better if I came up with the real artistic stuff like this...

Lonely

ROFL. I *just* saw that when I was browsing over there.

Like we say here, there's no accounting for taste. Though I do like the negative space and minimalistic approach in that one. :P

Bear_Music

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Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

01/20/2009 01:22:00 AM · #281

Originally posted by karmat:

Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I'd probably do better if I came up with the real artistic stuff like this...

Lonely

ROFL. I *just* saw that when I was browsing over there.

Like we say here, there's no accounting for taste. Though I do like the negative space and minimalistic approach in that one. :P

Wow... I'm definitely in the other camp on that shot; I LOVE it. Unless I'm badly mistaken, that's the tip of a church steeple penetrating a layer of low cloud or fog. I blew it up, and it seems to me I can see one of those "circles with a cross" you so often see on spires. Anyway, it's like a scene I have glimpsed before a couple of times, up to Vermont and New Hampshire. Makes me think of Robert Lowell's "Waking Early Sunday Morning":

...and vanishing spires
sticking up above the fog
like old, white china doorknobs, sad
slight, useless things to calm the mad.

Can't say I care for the title, but what the heck :-)

R.

karmat

Apple iPhone 7

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

01/20/2009 01:45:41 AM · #282

I thought it was a buoy on a lake. Of course his tags of frozen, lake and winter could have influenced me. :)

silverscreen

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

01/20/2009 01:53:31 AM · #283

Originally posted by karmat:

I thought it was a buoy on a lake. Of course his tags of frozen, lake and winter could have influenced me. :)

ROFL :)

(But I like the picture too)

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

01/20/2009 03:08:45 AM · #284

Originally posted by karmat:

I thought it was a buoy on a lake. Of course his tags of frozen, lake and winter could have influenced me. :)

Hah, that's good. I still like my theory though; looks like a spire to me, for God's sake! (I never look at tags, jejeje)

R.

yanko

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

01/20/2009 05:08:02 AM · #285

Originally posted by DrAchoo:

I'd probably do better if I came up with the real artistic stuff like this...

Lonely

Oh the irony! This bares its soul yet you fail to see it. It has an unassuming presence, a quiet awe about it that I find compelling. You may see it as just another gloomy image but I actually find it rather positive. It looks lonely but begs for company, for conversation and that can't be too bad.

violinist123

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Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/20/2009 09:46:48 AM · #286

You guys should just stop submitting and bumming yourselves out. And clogging up the screening queue so it's taking longer than normal...

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

01/20/2009 09:54:51 AM · #287

Originally posted by violinist123:

You guys should just stop submitting and bumming yourselves out. And clogging up the screening queue so it's taking longer than normal...

It is taking longer than normal. I have 3 that have been in screening for over 24 hours, one of them over 36 hours.

I've also seen several in member screening that showed up well after my submissions and have been published.

I wish I knew more about the process than they put forth in the FAQ.

karmat

Apple iPhone 7

01/20/2009 10:28:38 AM · #288

Originally posted by violinist123:

You guys should just stop submitting and bumming yourselves out. And clogging up the screening queue so it's taking longer than normal...

nah, mine aren't taking long enough to clog. they get rejected quickly. :P

Message edited by author 2009-01-20 10:28:56.

KarenNfld

01/20/2009 10:36:22 AM · #289

Originally posted by scarbrd:

I've also seen several in member screening that showed up well after my submissions and have been published.

Someone said if you're a paying member your photo gets bumped to the head of the screening queue.

silverscreen

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

01/20/2009 10:40:48 AM · #290

Originally posted by KarenNfld:

Originally posted by scarbrd:

I've also seen several in member screening that showed up well after my submissions and have been published.

Someone said if you're a paying member your photo gets bumped to the head of the screening queue.

I believe that is true - but even for paying members it takes quite a while sometimes. But sometimes pictures do not go to member screening and are approved or rjected right away. I've tried both :)

freakin_hilarious

Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i

01/20/2009 10:41:19 AM · #291

Is there a way to know when a new week starts and the upload slots are available again (other than just looking every day)? I can't seem to find that info anywhere.

01/20/2009 10:47:09 AM · #292

Originally posted by KarenNfld:

That was me that said that. I take that to mean you get the 1x screeners quicker, not necessarily the member screening.

I am pretty sure 2 of them made it to member screening. In fact, the last one I uplaoded just got rejected, with just under 50% on the screening popularity meter.

Some good critical comments though.

01/20/2009 10:52:55 AM · #293

Originally posted by freakin_hilarious:

Is there a way to know when a new week starts and the upload slots are available again (other than just looking every day)? I can't seem to find that info anywhere.

I think it is exaclty one week from the time you posted the entry.

silverscreen

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

01/20/2009 10:53:27 AM · #294

Originally posted by scarbrd:

Originally posted by freakin_hilarious:
Is there a way to know when a new week starts and the upload slots are available again (other than just looking every day)? I can't seem to find that info anywhere.

I think it is exaclty one week from the time you posted the entry.

It is - down to the very minute :)

freakin_hilarious

Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i

01/20/2009 10:58:25 AM · #295

Thanks, guys.

01/20/2009 12:45:29 PM · #296

Originally posted by yanko:

Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I'd probably do better if I came up with the real artistic stuff like this...

Lonely

Oh the irony! This bares its soul yet you fail to see it. It has an unassuming presence, a quiet awe about it that I find compelling. You may see it as just another gloomy image but I actually find it rather positive. It looks lonely but begs for company, for conversation and that can't be too bad.

Many years ago I lived walking distance to the Rothko Chapel in Houston. It is on the campus of the University of St. Thomas. The chaple has several paintings my Mark Rothko hanging on the walls. The guest list reads like a who's who of international fame. Dalai Lama, Bishop Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, just to name a few, have all visited the chapel.

My parents and grand parents were in town one day, so I took them all there to see this. When we walked in there were several people there, some Americans and some Europeans. It's a relatively small structure with one main room. We walked in and looked around. All we saw were these huge black panels on the walls. I really wanted to see the art and couldn't figure out where it was. I asked the person standing there that looked like she worked there, where is the Rothko art?

She informed me that the big black panels ARE the Rothko art.

Now don't get me wrong, we are all educated people and have been to major art musuems and showings all over the world. I get abstract art as a vialble art genre, I don't always like it, but I get it. This was laughable.

My thought was that Rothko has pulled on over on the art world.

See for your self.

//www.rothkochapel.org/virtual-interior.htm

Looking at that image reminded me of this.

KarenNfld

01/20/2009 12:47:51 PM · #297

Originally posted by scarbrd:

Oh I saw that in screening, I love it! Didn't know it was yours. Sorry it didn't make it through.

DrAchoo

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5

01/20/2009 12:48:01 PM · #298

Originally posted by yanko:

I probably shouldn't have given such a tone of derision. I was basically poking a bit of fun at the obvious disparity between a picture like this and my style. More opposite one could not likely get.