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06/30/2014 12:43:01 AM · #1 |
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06/30/2014 12:52:33 AM · #2 |
| Nice work here all who entered. I am so pleased this didn't become just a postcard gallery. Plenty of creativity in evidence! |
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06/30/2014 08:06:20 AM · #3 |
| 6.11 at 9 votes. Pleased with that. |
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06/30/2014 08:33:57 AM · #4 |
Wow! There are some amazing photos in this challenge. My score pretty much sucks, but in light of what its competing with, I'm not surprised. Great job all of you guys that got such breathtaking architecture!
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06/30/2014 11:01:40 AM · #5 |
maybe i was overly optimistic on my image, i thought it would be higher than that. oh well, its above a 5 and that makes me super happy :)
Votes: 13
Views: 39
Avg Vote: 6.1538 |
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06/30/2014 11:07:18 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by SandyP:
Wow! There are some amazing photos in this challenge. My score pretty much sucks, but in light of what its competing with, I'm not surprised. Great job all of you guys that got such breathtaking architecture! |
+1. If you are not sure which challenge to spend your time voting on this week, pick this one.
You have rated 89 of 93 images (96%) in this challenge.
You have given an average score of 6.0225.
(That's more than 0.5 above my average vote cast, before I go back for a second look and bump.)
Message edited by author 2014-06-30 13:00:34. |
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06/30/2014 06:47:35 PM · #7 |
| Who goes back through and knocks 3 points off of their vote? |
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06/30/2014 07:21:10 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by LN13:
Who goes back through and knocks 3 points off of their vote? |
I'll give you a clue - they live under bridges. |
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06/30/2014 07:23:37 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by LN13:
Who goes back through and knocks 3 points off of their vote? |
I was about to ask that, as my score has dropped dramatically in the last 12 hours... |
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06/30/2014 08:38:08 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by LN13:
Who goes back through and knocks 3 points off of their vote? |
Dunno, but my score was at 5.333 at its highest and is now around 5.000...c'mon, really?! |
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06/30/2014 08:42:51 PM · #11 |
| I dropped one full point from yesterday, heading towards mehalicous zone, actually already there! |
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07/05/2014 07:15:53 PM · #12 |
Pulling in a high amount of criticism for something in tiny violin range.
Votes: 64
Views: 123
Avg Vote: 5.9375
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0
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07/06/2014 12:35:43 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by hesitant:
Originally posted by LN13:
Who goes back through and knocks 3 points off of their vote? |
I'll give you a clue - they live under bridges. |
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Out of curiosity... how would you know if it was the same person, or are you speculating here.
Ray |
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07/06/2014 01:08:02 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by RayEthier:
Originally posted by hesitant:
Originally posted by LN13:
Who goes back through and knocks 3 points off of their vote? |
I'll give you a clue - they live under bridges. |
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Out of curiosity... how would you know if it was the same person, or are you speculating here.
Ray |
When the voting is this slow it's easy to recognize that one's overall score has changed one way or the other but the total vote count has not. It would be advantageous (more fair) to all if everybody who enters, plus more, would vote!
The lack thereof is one of the reasons I didn't sign up for TPL this time around. |
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07/06/2014 03:43:46 PM · #15 |
Starting to enjoy this one. It's fun when commenters have conflicting opinions about the same aspect of the shot.
Votes: 71
Views: 135
Avg Vote: 5.9155
Comments: 6
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07/06/2014 03:48:07 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Starting to enjoy this one. It's fun when commenters have conflicting opinions about the same aspect of the shot.
Votes: 71
Views: 135
Avg Vote: 5.9155
Comments: 6 |
I'm extremely curious to find out which shot is yours due to these reasons... |
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07/06/2014 03:48:10 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by RayEthier:
Originally posted by hesitant:
Originally posted by LN13:
Who goes back through and knocks 3 points off of their vote? |
I'll give you a clue - they live under bridges. |
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Out of curiosity... how would you know if it was the same person, or are you speculating here.
Ray |
As Penny noted, the vote total change, but the score dropped by 3 'points', so either one person lowered their vote by three, or three lowered by one all at once. |
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07/06/2014 04:41:20 PM · #18 |
You have rated 94 of 94 images (100%) in this challenge.
You have commented on 94 images (100%) in this challenge.
You have given an average score of 6.8830.
Took me a few days but I finally finished voting and commenting! Nice work everyone... some very interesting landmarks out there. |
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07/06/2014 11:50:31 PM · #19 |
You have rated 93 of 93 images (100%) in this challenge.
You have given an average score of 5.9785.
I found the variety of subjects fascinating - somehow I initially thought it needed to be a building that was being preserved rather than one that had been allowed to fall into ruin; but when I re-read the description, I saw that any historic building, regardless of its state, qualified. I will say that I didn't care for the processing on many of these. IMO there was too much overdone HDR.
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07/07/2014 03:28:25 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by nam:
You have rated 93 of 93 images (100%) in this challenge.
You have given an average score of 5.9785.
I found the variety of subjects fascinating - somehow I initially thought it needed to be a building that was being preserved rather than one that had been allowed to fall into ruin; but when I re-read the description, I saw that any historic building, regardless of its state, qualified. I will say that I didn't care for the processing on many of these. IMO there was too much overdone HDR. |
I absolutely agree with you on the "overdone HDR". I made a few comments during the challenge about halos on the buildings, but after about 2 or 3 comments I got tired of saying it. There was a lot of halos in this challenge! HDR can do some really nice things for building details, but when it's applied to the whole image, it can completely ruin it. Things also start to look dirty and dingy when the bars are pushed too far, especially people. Big details are accented, but the smaller things tend to get muddled and lose detail due to grain from the processing. Overall, sharpness gives way to bleh...
I've abused HDR myself, and I'm ashamed of it. It pains me to see the technique continuing to ruin perfectly good photos.
In summary, take it easy people, for the sake of all things beautiful! |
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07/07/2014 03:39:10 PM · #21 |
| It's not the "HDR" that ruins images, it's the heavy-handed application of tone mapping to the image, be it a single frame or a merged composite. |
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07/07/2014 03:50:55 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
It's not the "HDR" that ruins images, it's the heavy-handed application of tone mapping to the image, be it a single frame or a merged composite. |
I would be willing to bet that people aren't doing "HDR" in the true sense in these challenges. I think what people are using is the HDR presets in their given program. And pushing those sliders too far can cause the issues seen in this challenge. I don't argue that the real issue is tonal and not to be blamed on true HDR, but I would bet most don't know anything about tone mapping; they're using HDR presets. |
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07/07/2014 03:54:55 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
It's not the "HDR" that ruins images, it's the heavy-handed application of tone mapping to the image, be it a single frame or a merged composite. |
That's what I meant by "overdone" - and I agree with  aliqui about many of the things esp halos and "dirty, dingy" that dismayed. And my own was not a good sharp image to begin with and the processing was not great so I felt funny even making my comment - kind of a pot calling the kettle black sort of thing :) But I really saw so many very interesting and even beautiful buildings that were much less than they could have been because of the processing. |
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07/07/2014 04:00:00 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
... it's the heavy-handed application of tone mapping ... |
Originally posted by aliqui:
... I would bet most don't know anything about tone mapping; they're using HDR presets. |
... or perhaps its just that they are trying to give the DPC voters what it appears they want. Over the top HDR gets panned, but heavy handed applications seem to do pretty well around here as compared to more natural looking treatments, and may push entrants to do more than they might otherwise like.
I would bet that most tone-mapped images entered here don't really need it in the sense that the histogram is not clipped at either end. The situations where multiple exposures are needed to capture information that can't be captured in a single frame are much more limited than entries in DPC challenges would suggest. |
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07/07/2014 04:01:25 PM · #25 |
Even the overdone HDR shots kicked my ass. I guess no one appreciated my different take, I should have found a building and shot it from the street looking upward.
Message edited by author 2014-07-07 16:01:55. |
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