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03/03/2013 10:21:53 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by MNet:
Good luck, Scott |
Thanks. My next post will be in the 1x reject club thread. :D |
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03/03/2013 10:44:26 PM · #52 |
| I have the feeling that if 1x continues with competitions they will be making a lot of changes to the structure. Why not have a submission phase and then start voting when it concludes so everyone entered has the same amount of days to garner votes? Why have a "leader board" when it is probably going to cause cherry picker voting? I'm sure they will sort it all out, but it seems very flawed right now... |
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03/03/2013 10:48:25 PM · #53 |
Honestly it feels like amateur hour at the 1x office, the site no longer works on any mobile browser I tried, opera or ie, it isn't fully compatible with chrome and it for some reason creates huge cpu usage on firefox. Also not having a standardised resolution on images now you either have to upload a high res image that looks soft when not viewed full screen, or an image that looks good until you see it up scaled, where it looks like to total crap (e.g. all old images). The site also just looks cheaper to me now and a lot less polished than the previous, white 1x.
Loosing the relevance of image curation also looses the usp of 1x, it's now just a poor man's 500px from what I can tell, its only redeeming features; the critique, tutorial and competition sections, two of the three not being new features.
Message edited by author 2013-03-03 23:51:45. |
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03/03/2013 11:06:12 PM · #54 |
| Some are spot on, some look soft. Free account allows for 10 uploads, might be advantageous to use one of the uploads as a test before submission. |
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03/04/2013 02:59:41 PM · #55 |
my entry made it to the leaderboard. :)
oh wait, i think all shots are on the leaderboard, just rated by amount of thumbs ups..lol.
Message edited by author 2013-03-04 15:09:00. |
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03/04/2013 05:45:06 PM · #56 |
I don't 1X myself, but I just popped over to check it out.The images look great and the site navigates very nicely on my kindle fire hd. On my desktop computer, the images looked awful.
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03/04/2013 10:08:32 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Originally posted by Paul:
Interface is horrible on an iPad |
Yep, it's awful. Click on one image and you end up looking at something completely different. The whole thing seems very buggy. Lots of problems with the high res settings too. |
Really bad on iPad. Not usable. |
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03/04/2013 10:52:09 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by Cuttooth:
my entry made it to the leaderboard. :)
oh wait, i think all shots are on the leaderboard, just rated by amount of thumbs ups..lol. |
I found my photo, finally. It's a photo of a forest, and not a bad one in my opinion, but it can be found far, far below dozens of completely unforesty images in the forest challenge, my favorite of which is a head of broccoli on shag carpet.
It's been a fun experiment, but the competition thing couldn't be more gimmicky. I think it's purely designed to generate accounts, bring more visitors, page loads, possible prints/book buyers, etc., without actually "publishing" most of the stuff uploaded to the competition. |
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03/04/2013 11:12:42 PM · #59 |
Originally posted by bohemka:
Originally posted by Cuttooth:
my entry made it to the leaderboard. :)
oh wait, i think all shots are on the leaderboard, just rated by amount of thumbs ups..lol. |
I found my photo, finally. It's a photo of a forest, and not a bad one in my opinion, but it can be found far, far below dozens of completely unforesty images in the forest challenge, my favorite of which is a head of broccoli on shag carpet.
It's been a fun experiment, but the competition thing couldn't be more gimmicky. I think it's purely designed to generate accounts, bring more visitors, page loads, possible prints/book buyers, etc., without actually "publishing" most of the stuff uploaded to the competition. |
Yes. It's looking pretty bad and lost a lot of quality.
This Forest competition for instance is filled with pictures that seem taken by the same person: the elongated blurry trees that seem to be popping like mushrooms, elongated for that matter. Perhaps it's the same forest! Ha, ha. |
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03/05/2013 12:09:42 PM · #60 |
So I just logged into 1X and notice all the features they had decided to do away with, Member voting, the pm/mail system, the forum discussions are all going to be re-instated. Good to see - the forum discussions were the main reason I used to visit 1X - there were a lot of good discussions.
Also, the upscaling problem is now resolved too. |
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03/05/2013 12:12:16 PM · #61 |
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Also, the upscaling problem is now resolved too. |
Not really. The images uploaded at the prior resolutions of max 950px will continue to be upscaled to whatever window/browser the viewer is using, looking all blurry and pixelated, but if you chose to opt out of upscaling, YOU, in your own browser window, will not see any upscaling of the images in your portfolio. But anyone else will still see them upscaled.
BTW, I am furious about this! Furious is probably an understatement.
Message edited by author 2013-03-05 12:12:55. |
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03/05/2013 12:21:36 PM · #62 |
Originally posted by ursula:
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Also, the upscaling problem is now resolved too. |
Not really. The images uploaded at the prior resolutions of max 950px will continue to be upscaled to whatever window/browser the viewer is using, looking all blurry and pixelated, but if you chose to opt out of upscaling, YOU, in your own browser window, will not see any upscaling of the images in your portfolio. But anyone else will still see them upscaled.
BTW, I am furious about this! Furious is probably an understatement. |
Ooh, thanks for clarifying Ursula, I didn't get the full point from the post on FB. I agree with you entirely - even if I have only a handful of images on 1x. |
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03/05/2013 02:10:08 PM · #63 |
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Originally posted by ursula:
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Also, the upscaling problem is now resolved too. |
Not really. The images uploaded at the prior resolutions of max 950px will continue to be upscaled to whatever window/browser the viewer is using, looking all blurry and pixelated, but if you chose to opt out of upscaling, YOU, in your own browser window, will not see any upscaling of the images in your portfolio. But anyone else will still see them upscaled.
BTW, I am furious about this! Furious is probably an understatement. |
Ooh, thanks for clarifying Ursula, I didn't get the full point from the post on FB. I agree with you entirely - even if I have only a handful of images on 1x. |
We (Facebook group that is talking things over) are working on changing this, so that images that were uploaded at 950px or other such not huge size will show max at the size at which they were uploaded. Otherwise, for a lot of us, it is an issue of looking very unprofessional. Not good. Not at all.
Message edited by author 2013-03-05 14:10:29. |
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03/05/2013 05:32:46 PM · #64 |
| How do you tell if an image submitted for screening has been rejected? There's no place to manage photos anymore that I can see... |
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03/05/2013 05:45:29 PM · #65 |
Originally posted by Oz:
How do you tell if an image submitted for screening has been rejected? There's no place to manage photos anymore that I can see... |
From what a couple of screeners have said, you should be getting e-mail notification for either a publish or a rejection. I do not know if this has been implemented.
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03/05/2013 06:27:46 PM · #66 |
Originally posted by ursula:
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Also, the upscaling problem is now resolved too. |
Not really. The images uploaded at the prior resolutions of max 950px will continue to be upscaled to whatever window/browser the viewer is using, looking all blurry and pixelated, but if you chose to opt out of upscaling, YOU, in your own browser window, will not see any upscaling of the images in your portfolio. But anyone else will still see them upscaled.
BTW, I am furious about this! Furious is probably an understatement. |
I noticed that as well, the pic's look considerably smaller on my screen ;(
I can see why you're frustrated, I don't think I will visit as much as I use to, I find it very confusing to navigate, or maybe I'm just a slow learner ;(
I also don't like how when you get a notification, of someone faving your pic, and you click on the red icon it then doesn't seem to navigate to the proper section. Oh well better things in life to concern myself with I guess, no big deal really, might be for others! |
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03/05/2013 06:30:07 PM · #67 |
| I assume that one that I had put in earlier was rejected before the upgrade? not sure... not there, but no email. Wasn't expecting anything I guess. :) |
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03/05/2013 08:54:27 PM · #68 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
I assume that one that I had put in earlier was rejected before the upgrade? not sure... not there, but no email. Wasn't expecting anything I guess. :) |
No idea, Wendy. People are asking about this at Facebook, nobody seems to know. There has been no official comment about it. Which picture did you send to screening? |
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03/05/2013 10:55:32 PM · #69 |
Originally posted by ursula:
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Also, the upscaling problem is now resolved too. |
Not really. The images uploaded at the prior resolutions of max 950px will continue to be upscaled to whatever window/browser the viewer is using, looking all blurry and pixelated, but if you chose to opt out of upscaling, YOU, in your own browser window, will not see any upscaling of the images in your portfolio. But anyone else will still see them upscaled.
BTW, I am furious about this! Furious is probably an understatement. |
As you should be. This came without any notice. I expected more from the 1x crew. They seem like a smart bunch. Someone might be on vacation for two weeks not knowing their pics are looking awful. The default should've been not to turn on HD(or upsizing) for all accounts. |
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03/06/2013 01:53:08 AM · #70 |
Originally posted by Techo:
Originally posted by ursula:
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Also, the upscaling problem is now resolved too. |
Not really. The images uploaded at the prior resolutions of max 950px will continue to be upscaled to whatever window/browser the viewer is using, looking all blurry and pixelated, but if you chose to opt out of upscaling, YOU, in your own browser window, will not see any upscaling of the images in your portfolio. But anyone else will still see them upscaled.
BTW, I am furious about this! Furious is probably an understatement. |
As you should be. This came without any notice. I expected more from the 1x crew. They seem like a smart bunch. Someone might be on vacation for two weeks not knowing their pics are looking awful. The default should've been not to turn on HD(or upsizing) for all accounts. |
maybe 1x was taken over by smugmug ;-) |
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03/06/2013 04:45:09 AM · #71 |
Originally posted by MNet:
This sounds great. My membership is just about to expire. I need some different challenges and new motivation without the disappointment of constant rejections. The quality of competition is amazing, I can learn just by looking at these great images and be motivated to enter something better than my current photos. |
Yep! |
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03/06/2013 05:16:34 AM · #72 |
Originally posted by Cory:
So, like, holy cow. Those are some awesome shots.
//1x.com/weeklytheme
On the other hand, the voters can tell who owns each image, so it's something of a popularity contest too. |
so DPC isnt a popularity contest hmmm interesting take on what is both popular and a contest! ;O) seems to me whats popular here at DPC is getting the high votes and theres some number things to click that end with virtual ribbons; strange i thought challenge was a contest... couldnt be the same...could it? |
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03/06/2013 06:29:29 AM · #73 |
Originally posted by GAP2012:
Originally posted by Cory:
So, like, holy cow. Those are some awesome shots.
//1x.com/weeklytheme
On the other hand, the voters can tell who owns each image, so it's something of a popularity contest too. |
so DPC isnt a popularity contest hmmm interesting take on what is both popular and a contest! ;O) seems to me whats popular here at DPC is getting the high votes and theres some number things to click that end with virtual ribbons; strange i thought challenge was a contest... couldnt be the same...could it? |
...Have you considered that what  Cory is advancing is that knowing exactly who took the photo is apt to have a major influence on the votes... and that would be a monumental difference from what transpires at DPC.
Ray |
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03/06/2013 06:54:39 AM · #74 |
Originally posted by RayEthier:
Originally posted by GAP2012:
Originally posted by Cory:
So, like, holy cow. Those are some awesome shots.
//1x.com/weeklytheme
On the other hand, the voters can tell who owns each image, so it's something of a popularity contest too. |
so DPC isnt a popularity contest hmmm interesting take on what is both popular and a contest! ;O) seems to me whats popular here at DPC is getting the high votes and theres some number things to click that end with virtual ribbons; strange i thought challenge was a contest... couldnt be the same...could it? |
...Have you considered that what Cory is advancing is that knowing exactly who took the photo is apt to have a major influence on the votes... and that would be a monumental difference from what transpires at DPC.
Ray |
Yes i considered that and found that the name doesnt need to be ommitted in order to take out bias or popularity. both can still be influenced by what is considered good by a majority and promotion of those same elements and principles. none of Cory's thoughts were lost in translation or upon reading, i was mearly pointing out that in fact those things can still be seen and applied regardless of the name. ;O) |
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03/06/2013 10:20:33 AM · #75 |
Originally posted by ursula:
Originally posted by vawendy:
I assume that one that I had put in earlier was rejected before the upgrade? not sure... not there, but no email. Wasn't expecting anything I guess. :) |
No idea, Wendy. People are asking about this at Facebook, nobody seems to know. There has been no official comment about it. Which picture did you send to screening? |
My guess is that at most you will find out if your image was accepted by the curators through the notification in your account, though an email heads-up would certainly be nicer- even if it's a rejection.
Changes are slowly being made to correct some issues with the new 1x it seems. But then new one's pop up. I had with much reservation allowed my images that had HD versions to be displayed in HD. They displayed fine on the new 1x (to me anyway) though the watermarking I paid extra for (and shouldn't have to!!!) wasn't showing up. Well today my watermarks are there, but from my computer anyway; all of my images come up in low res despite them all having HD versions uploaded and I have given permission for them to be viewed in HD. That is not as bad a situation as poor Ursula is in with all her gorgeous images in low res being upscaled for viewers to see them soft. But I wonder if in my situation I am now in the same boat with other viewers seeing the same low res versions I am seeing- but upscaled? Need to give things time I guess...
ETA- I see what is going on now. I had my account settings set to NOT upscale any low resolution images in order to give other photographers the dignity of not having their images upscaled and soft. Once I changed my settings to allow all images to be upscaled, my own images (which are HD uploads) I could finally see myself in HD. So I guess for now I can only view my own images in low res if I want to give other photographers the dignity of not viewing their images in an upscaled form. Whatever! ;)
Message edited by author 2013-03-06 10:29:49. |
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