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10/01/2010 06:04:10 PM · #1 |
This thread actually started out as a site suggestion, because I felt that 'voting' in Free Studies is like comparing apples to oranges. Assuming the entries represent everyone's best effort, how can you fairly compare a street scene to a landscape? A macro to an abstract? A glamor shot to photojournalism? I suggested rotating regular FS with "directed" FS (nature, indoors, macro, etc.), but  GeneralE had a much more elegant suggestion; a thread to celebrate the daring, the different, the dissed. This is where great images with a smaller audience have a chance to be loved. Although similar to a Posthumous thread for regular challenges, this thread is for images that fall below the top quarter.
It is (unabashedly) 'self'-'serving', since that's where I usually place in free studies :-) Stay tuned until the end of September! Any artistically-inclined graphic wizard is invited to design an appropriate award gif. |
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10/15/2010 12:27:38 AM · #2 |
From Free Study 2010-09, I really liked these images that ranked a LOT lower than I thought they deserved. These were ones I gave a score of 8, 9, or 10, but ranked under 50% (ordered lowest challenge rank first):
 by  tgbooklover  by  posthumous  by dx_power
 by  oldbimmercoupe  by ankursomani  by talmy
 by odriew  by fisheye  by skewsme
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10/15/2010 07:03:36 AM · #3 |
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10/15/2010 07:23:00 AM · #4 |
This is a fine idea. I will return when I have time to look through the Sept F S.
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10/15/2010 08:52:21 AM · #5 |
Here are the shots I voted 8+ that fell outside that top 25%
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10/15/2010 12:36:18 PM · #6 |
Here are some I enjoyed which fell outside that top 25%
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10/15/2010 12:40:20 PM · #7 |
 
Both these got a very high score from me, for entirely different reasons, and didn't fare especially well with the voters...
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10/15/2010 12:51:21 PM · #8 |
Not in any particular order, my higher scoring images that placed 100th or lower.
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10/15/2010 01:25:53 PM · #9 |
Those photos don't have a "smaller" audience but a large one (if you ask me)
Rob O
ursula
Covert_Oddity
 alanfreed
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10/15/2010 03:04:20 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Assuming the entries represent everyone's best effort, how can you fairly compare a street scene to a landscape? A macro to an abstract? A glamor shot to photojournalism? |
Actually, macros (at least mine) often are abstracts, and vice-versa ...
Another way to group your postings here, which I thought aligned well with the original concern, was to after-the-fact create "divisions" among the Free Study entries, so you might post the best landscape, the best abstract, etc., using whatever categories you like, or the best-by-category which finished below the 25th percentile. |
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10/15/2010 04:38:38 PM · #11 |
It's one thing to pick the best from what's offered & something else to hold out for what knocks my socks off. One thing I do know is that it's difficult to knock my socks off with technical perfection alone. These photos from the lower 75% in the FS have a perfection of honesty, a simple direct honest expression (or impression). Each one, in its own way is technical perfection in that the technicals suit the photo perfectly rather than conforming to a standard of technical perfection. Sorry if I sound purple & clairvoyant. The best is difficult to talk about in a plain & straightforward way.
These are the ones I like:
 by clive_patric_nolan
 by MelonMusketeer
 by dahlin
Message edited by author 2010-10-15 16:43:25. |
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