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11/13/2003 11:37:37 AM · #26 |
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11/13/2003 11:41:47 AM · #27 |
8/10 - Missed the glasses and the pile of nails.
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11/13/2003 11:47:05 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by Catherine:
I'm a new member and I've been reading the forums for the past few days to acquaint myself with the socio-political environment, if you will. Every place has its own idiosyncracies and hot spots and this is no exception. I must say, I am impressed with the general level of civility - oftentimes places such as this (diverse groupings of people with a single common interest) reduce themselves to perpetual squabbling.
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Catherine, your pictures posted at your website are beautiful!! Welcome!
~Ursula
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11/13/2003 11:57:19 AM · #29 |
Just interested to hear why you made the wrong/right guesses.
Seems the glasses and the nails are the really tricky ones.
I had the glasses wrong as well. The thing which caused doubt was the angle of the glass on the right, but still voted for real.
On the nails the thing which convinced me of computer generated was the inconsistent blur as result of depth of field. Some nails in front are slightly sharper than the nails behind them, in turn followed by the nails fully in focus.
Any other observations ?
Message edited by author 2003-11-13 13:25:44. |
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11/14/2003 09:11:07 AM · #30 |
| Take 7/10. Identified all reals as reals, but the glass, the nails and grass too! |
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11/14/2003 10:01:50 AM · #31 |
8 of 10
Those nails really did it, and so did the lawn furniture
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11/14/2003 11:11:09 AM · #32 |
| 7 out of 10 -- amazingly I got the nails right. The lawn furniture really threw me. Studied it for a long time and then decided it was real because of the light. |
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11/14/2003 11:46:51 AM · #33 |
8 out of 10 for me.
The two that I got wrong - called fake were real = the glass of red wine and the brightly lit furniture with the water droplets on it.
Where you have the time to study an image the results can be breathtakingly real but a lot of CGI is used in the movies and that has certainly added to the film makers "art".
Perhaps we need a CGI forum for the those (few) here with the skills to show it off? |
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11/14/2003 12:22:59 PM · #34 |
"People that are against changing the rules seem to feel,imo, that we would be creating pictures that are so for over the edge that they would be unpleasant to look at"
This statement shows a continued misunderstanding by those who incessantly try to promote loosening the rules. Trying to characterize what others are thinking is not an easy thing to do. Trying to judge their position by your own desires is all to tempting. The reason I wish to see the rules remain as they are is not because I am afraid of looking at digital art. I trust the voter's instincts to skim the cream from the crap. But what I want to preserve is the teaching aspect of the site, teaching us to use the camera to it's maximum. If we were not trying to learn to use the camera to it's best advantage, couldn't we save ourselves a lot of money by just using the cheapest point and shoot camera around? An important element of learning in the dpc system is the motivation we receive from competing, and I want to keep that competition on as level a playing field as possible. There already are too many inequalities among the contestants. We don't need to introduce photo editing software skills as another varible factor into the equation. I prefer to compete on the basis of who can take the best picture with his/her digital camera, do some mild sprucing-up within the current rules, and see which entries appeal most to the sometimes vague tastes of our ever-changing constituency; and, hopefully, pick up some pointers along the way from the comments left during the voting phase. I acknowledge that these entries are almost always not the very best photographs that can be made from the original image. I acknowledge that there are many here who are superior to me in both camera use and software use. I acknowledge that to get the very best possible photographs from the shots I take I will have to learn more software skills. I pretty much agree that software cannot make a terrible image great. But the learning and competition here was intended to be about perfecting your camera skills while holding the software use the same for all. If you want to compete on the basis of who can come up with the best possible photograph using a combination of all your skills, there are many, many other sites that invite you to do just that. (I take pleasure whenever I hear about dpc members doing well elsewhere.) If you want to compete on the basis of software skills alone you could start a site where all contestants begin with the same flawed image. Neither of those are what was intended here.
I really wish this topic would stop coming up again and again in the forums. Until the admins/site council decide to take some action, this really is a dead horse. And by "take some action" I don't mean further discussion, debating, voting, surveying or polling. The lack of action indicates that the rules will not change soon. I'm getting used to it.
Message edited by author 2003-11-14 12:28:16. |
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11/04/2004 11:52:30 AM · #35 |
Really old thread, but cool test. I got 6 of 10.
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11/04/2004 11:56:29 AM · #36 |
| you guys may not believe me but i got 10/10 first try |
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11/04/2004 11:58:26 AM · #37 |
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11/04/2004 12:00:14 PM · #38 |
| 8 out of 10 lawn furniture reflections, and nails had me. |
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11/04/2004 12:06:37 PM · #39 |
| I would like to see challenges of BOTH persuasions on a regular basis - open editing ones AND zero editing (totally untouched, straight off the camera). |
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11/04/2004 12:06:46 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by riotspyne:
you guys may not believe me but i got 10/10 first try |
So did I. |
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11/04/2004 12:08:08 PM · #41 |
| well, i dont believe you...ha ha ha |
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11/04/2004 12:20:40 PM · #42 |
Just from looking at the thumbnails (did not view largeer image) I got 7/10
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11/04/2004 12:34:21 PM · #43 |
7 out of ten
Then changed so i could go to bonus round and got 3 out of 4 |
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11/04/2004 12:48:19 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by AmiYuy:
8/10 - Missed the glasses and the pile of nails. |
Same here |
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11/04/2004 01:25:06 PM · #45 |
Welcome Catherine!
I got 6/10 |
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11/04/2004 01:36:47 PM · #46 |
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11/04/2004 01:43:59 PM · #47 |
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11/04/2004 01:48:26 PM · #48 |
10/10 first shot
went to bonus round and got 0/4...
hehehe, i found it quite amuzing... |
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01/22/2005 12:35:17 PM · #49 |
| awww deannda! Don't worry me 2! 4 out of 10! Really bad! huh!!?? |
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01/22/2005 12:46:34 PM · #50 |
| 9 out of 10. I missed the glasses also. |
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