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09/01/2004 05:25:19 AM · #1 |
Hi all.
I haven't entered nor voted oh so many challenges so far (around 5) and I am still learning the rules of DPC and how it works.
One thing I noticed (among many) is that whatever subject, whatever challenge instructions there will be always those stubborn photo takers who, despite all, will submit macro shots of flowers.
They usualy have no connection to the subject or even try going close to it. They're just macro shots of flowers.
This one (framing) is not different.
How do you normally treat them. Do you score them low, not score at all or treat as any other pics.
And yet there were not that many of those in 'Botany' :) lol
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09/01/2004 05:31:37 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by _wu_:
Hi all.
I haven't entered nor voted oh so many challenges so far (around 5) and I am still learning the rules of DPC and how it works.
One thing I noticed (among many) is that whatever subject, whatever challenge instructions there will be always those stubborn photo takers who, despite all, will submit macro shots of flowers.
They usualy have no connection to the subject or even try going close to it. They're just macro shots of flowers.
This one (framing) is not different.
How do you normally treat them. Do you score them low, not score at all or treat as any other pics.
And yet there were not that many of those in 'Botany' :) lol |
It honestly depends. I can view 1000 macro shots of flowers, but then suddenly see an entry that fits the challenge perfectly, is a *wonderful* shot of a macro flower, and I'll score it accordingly.
It's just one of the problems of a site like this.. minds tend to think alike, and you get your groups of photographers that tend to hang on to one form of photography that they've "perfected", and try to implement it into every challenge.
Go with your gut though.. if you like an image, and find you can critique it, then heck, do so and vote it up. Just don't fall into the "auto-robot" trap of voting things down simply because they're of a subject you've seen a million times.. sometimes you automatically miss an one-of-a-kind shot that way.
whatever you decide, just try to vote fairly, look at each image like you are looking at that subject for the first time, and try not to get too jaded :)
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09/01/2004 05:32:51 AM · #3 |
scoring as you like is the best way. Don't listen to other people.
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09/01/2004 05:33:50 AM · #4 |
I tend to vote low on the water drop shots myself because they bore me rotten now.
If it bores you then it really isn't a good photo.
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09/01/2004 05:41:33 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by jonpink:
I tend to vote low on the water drop shots myself because they bore me rotten now.
If it bores you then it really isn't a good photo. |
That's too generalized a statement. If it bores *you*, it isn't a photo geared to your tastes. It has nothing to do with being a great or bad photograph.
There are others whom still live to see water-drop photographs. I for one still love one that is well done and shows a lot of effort and creativity. Religion bores me.. but that doesn't mean that I won't give a good score for a religious piece that is well done.. (as evidenced by my high score for the red ribbon winner in hope).
We're all built differently, and that's why this community is so great, and why, hopefully, the same-ol' same-ol' won't keeping winning time and time again.. and I've seen some evidence to show that they won't, always.
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09/01/2004 06:04:52 AM · #6 |
I must say what I look for in here when voting is (apart from quality and meeting challenges) creativity.
I still believe that a macro shot of a flower (or water drop or church) can be creative (by doing it yet another way) therefore I will bring that one up with the score.
Then again, if it's, say, a macro shot of a flower with a frame around then deffinitely the creativity will be most important.
If someone mastered flower shots and put a flower in a frame, or makes it look like a fairytail flower or put it in a vanishing point that's fine with me as long as it appeals to me.
I am just bored with just flower pics (or whatever you mentioned) as such with no adherence to the subject.
I myself "get inspired" (read: try to use other's good ideas) in my own photos if only I can give them a bit of myself. On the other hand if I see a picture which I have seen so many times before, it realy has to have SOMETHING special in it to make me score it higher.
Well, in the end, it is the very feeling about the very picture you are just looking at that makes you score low or high.
Keep smiling :)
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09/01/2004 06:31:53 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Artyste:
Originally posted by jonpink:
I tend to vote low on the water drop shots myself because they bore me rotten now.
If it bores you then it really isn't a good photo. |
That's too generalized a statement. If it bores *you*, it isn't a photo geared to your tastes. It has nothing to do with being a great or bad photograph.
There are others whom still live to see water-drop photographs. I for one still love one that is well done and shows a lot of effort and creativity. Religion bores me.. but that doesn't mean that I won't give a good score for a religious piece that is well done.. (as evidenced by my high score for the red ribbon winner in hope).
We're all built differently, and that's why this community is so great, and why, hopefully, the same-ol' same-ol' won't keeping winning time and time again.. and I've seen some evidence to show that they won't, always. |
It's not too general.
I also dislike shots of children being beaten, but I am not going to score it high just becasue it's 'well taken'.
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09/01/2004 07:00:34 AM · #8 |
just to add (and confirm what I said before) -
I just saw a picture of a flower, in the 'framing' challenge, which I scored 9.
Ok, it is possible :)
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09/01/2004 07:13:11 AM · #9 |
just after I entered this one for words:
and planned to give every flowershot a 3 or less, i stumbled upon this one:
and I just had to give it a 10. So the principles don't really work. Yes they usually bore me so I score them lower, but once in a while there is a really lovely shot that stands out and doesn't bore at all. Perhaps a flowershot needs to be really really good to stand out and score higher, but it can be done. |
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