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Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

10/19/2011 11:12:46 PM · #51

I got a comment!!!!! *Does the happy dance*. Unfortunately, they are under the assumption they know "something", but they are incorrect. Snicker! Oh well...I'm happy!

gaurav

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

10/20/2011 01:59:52 AM · #52

Votes: 68
Views: 144
Avg Vote: 4.4265
Comments: 1
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 10/20/11 01:10 am
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Giles

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

10/20/2011 07:25:39 PM · #53

time to cry i was at 6.20 early door lots of praise now pahh whats the crack everyone had a bad week?

Votes: 86
Views: 170
Avg Vote: 5.3837
Comments: 2
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 10/20/11 07:10 pm

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

10/20/2011 10:17:52 PM · #54

The voters are really pissy voting this challenge! I think the assumption that everyone thinks THEIR kid is adorable and all the others are "meh" is probably closest to the truth. (Pssst! I've got news for some of them...) If it weren't for WPL, this would have been one to stay a LONG distance away from! Mine is now up to 4.15!! Note to self: don't ever push the envelope around here.

snaffles

Nikon D7100

10/20/2011 10:22:13 PM · #55

Originally posted by LadyTara:

Quite a few images that don't feature a baby or a toddler but show kids clearly over 3. Tut tut.

My first submission in a while isn't doing very well, alas. :-(

Good to see you back, LadyTara! And I don't have an entry but don't feel I should vote for the same reasons mentioned here. If the subject looks to be 3 or over, I don't consider them to be a toddler.

snaffles

Nikon D7100

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

10/20/2011 10:23:46 PM · #56

Originally posted by Giles_uk:

mines nose diving from a high of 6.20 to 5.55...... harsh......

time to go back and give everyone a 1 out of spite hahaha (this is a joke, for the ppl who don't understand that)

Giving all 1s would just result in your votes getting scrubbed anyway.

Purple_Girl

Canon EOS-1100D

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II

10/21/2011 07:56:03 AM · #57

Originally posted by snaffles:

Originally posted by LadyTara:
Quite a few images that don't feature a baby or a toddler but show kids clearly over 3. Tut tut.

My first submission in a while isn't doing very well, alas. :-(

Good to see you back, LadyTara! And I don't have an entry but don't feel I should vote for the same reasons mentioned here. If the subject looks to be 3 or over, I don't consider them to be a toddler.

Thank you Susan! :-)

I'm a bit disheartened by my image doing so poorly as it's a good quality shot (and I don't often toot my own horn!) but like many others, I seem to have fallen victim to a sweep of mean, stupidly low voters. Mine is teetering to stay above 5, booo. I reckon folk have it right when they say that people are aggresive when it comes to thinking their little one is the bestest, lol.

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

10/21/2011 10:49:24 PM · #58

Wow, dropped to a 4.02. Lowest score ever for me...and I didn't even know my subject, but the photo isn't THAT bad, lol. Jeez... (I have 1 comment.)

Dr.Confuser

Nikon D800

10/21/2011 10:53:17 PM · #59

6.8 might be ribbon territory in this challenge.

Sigma 70-200 /2.8 APO EX DG Macro HSM II

10/21/2011 11:02:14 PM · #60

Sounds like the highest score mentioned thus far. Way to go!

sulamk

Canon EOS-60D

10/21/2011 11:51:31 PM · #61

Sounds like that everyone is forgetting this is a photographic competition not a beauty contest!

Message edited by author 2011-10-22 05:07:27.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

10/22/2011 12:24:11 AM · #62

Makes one wonder...

Giles

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

10/22/2011 04:20:12 AM · #63

down to 5.20 now a full point from the first 20 votes, yep everyone is been particularly harsh and i though i had a good image

Message edited by author 2011-10-22 04:20:56.

Purple_Girl

Canon EOS-1100D

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II

10/22/2011 03:33:05 PM · #64

Originally posted by sulamk:

Sounds like that everyone is forgetting this is a photographic competition not a beauty contest!

Agreed.

Sony SAL-1855 DT 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

10/22/2011 06:10:57 PM · #65

Say it isn't so...they are voting as if THESE were their children and forgetting that we are voting on the photograph not the child....*GASP*

Notice the nails on the last one. Nothing like this in the challenge...rofl.

lawrysimm

Sony SLT-A57

10/22/2011 06:46:29 PM · #66

I didn't enter the challenge, nor do I have my own kids, so no personal bias.

I actually found the overall standard of this challenge quite poor compared to any challenge in recent memory. My overall vote in the challenge was 4.5 - I don't ever remember voting a whole challenge so low. Contrast that with my average of 6.2 for Step By Step, and 5.7 for Natural Body of Water.

I see two stand out images, half a dozen other contenders, but mostly the rest really consist of photos only a mother could love. So many of them have the feel of "here's a snapshot of my kid" rather than "here's a carefully thought out and well executed photograph of a baby". It's as though the parents taking the photographs see the beauty of their children (only natural of course) and switch off thinking their work is done, but forget that they need to sell the image to the rest of us.

I know it is "basic editing" which limits options somewhat, but nonetheless, some effort is require, surely?

I set my voting benchmark at 5.5 which makes me always fall onto a choice of "above average" or "below average" for a given image - this stops me sitting on the fence settling for "average" if you follow me. You'll see after nearly 30,000 votes my voting average is almost (not quite) 5.5 which pretty much supports my position.

For whatever reason, most of the shots in the challenge, in my opinion of course, fell a good way short of average.

Not trying to rain on anyone's parade here... just hoping to someway explain why this challenge might be getting a lot of low votes.

PS - There were quite a few (again in my opinion) DNMC's which would have lowered my average mark awarded.

nam

Sony DSLR-A580

Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha

10/22/2011 07:58:01 PM · #67

What's a DNMC, please?

Dirt_Diver

Nikon D3s

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

10/22/2011 08:00:09 PM · #68

Originally posted by nam:

What's a DNMC, please?

Does Not Meet Challenge

Sony SAL-1855 DT 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

10/23/2011 12:57:57 AM · #69

So, you're saying there aren't any shots like those I posted, eh...*snicker*
You're using the "a face only a mother could love" defense. Yep!

lawrysimm

Sony SLT-A57

10/23/2011 06:00:22 AM · #70

Originally posted by bergiekat:

So, you're saying there aren't any shots like those I posted, eh...*snicker*
You're using the "a face only a mother could love" defense. Yep!

The 4 images you posted above terrify me! I see that sort of stuff akin to child abuse.. but that's another conversation :-)

A few of my friends have recently given birth, and there seems to be a big thing now about going to a local photo studio to do some "Anne Geddes" style shots. Next thing the photos are all over Facebook with everyone coo-ing over them... but in fact almost all of those so called professional shots suck, yet the parents just dont seem to see it and hand over their money willy-nilly.

Maybe it's me... perhaps I just have an aversion to babies! :-)

I did review my votes, and maybe I was voting at a particularly grumpy time. I've uprated quite a few shots, although my overall average vote didn't seem to move much - up to 4.7

Giles

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

10/23/2011 06:42:56 AM · #71

5.1 for mine now. thought i had a nicely executed well composed and technically nice picture with a good expression but obviously its a blurred sh1t photo of a blank wall..... some people have disliked an aspect of mine but i guess without explaing it they havent got it.

haha some right kiddy haters out there lol ;), i know its not indication but facebook feedback was good infact probably a photo normal people like wont do any good on here unless its PP'd to an inch of its life. thats the point im going to take from this challenge actually,

bring on the next challenge..... but this one to bed

lawrysimm

Sony SLT-A57

Sony SAL-1855 DT 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

10/23/2011 07:08:50 AM · #72

Dr.Confuser said it all :-)