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Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

07/19/2004 07:32:47 AM · #28

I guess Im doing ok, started at 8 and have been heading down ever since.

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Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

07/19/2004 08:09:15 AM · #29

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Still hangin' on to a 6, but it's awfully early. Time for the DPC Slide again (a Monday regular!). :o)

ConcreteDonkey

Nikon D300

Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED VR

07/19/2004 08:14:30 AM · #30

Man this is crazy im goin pretty good but No comments.

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suemack

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

07/19/2004 08:31:05 AM · #31

:D Well done you guys! I'm not doing so well at the moment though have gone up to 4.7 after 33 votes. Am off to bed before I break my update button :P Well.......didn't enter the last 2 challenges and I missed not having it to play with! LOL

sue

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

07/19/2004 08:52:02 AM · #32

My best picture in months, several comments to the effect that its the voters' personal favourite, lots of 10s.

Score is just under 5...

Marjo

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

07/19/2004 08:59:27 AM · #33

Originally posted by Gordon:

My best picture in months, several comments to the effect that its the voters' personal favourite, lots of 10s.

Score is just under 5...

That's weird. They must really really like it or really really hate it.
I can't figure it out. I'm starting to get discouraged.

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

07/19/2004 09:05:18 AM · #34

Originally posted by Marjo:

Originally posted by Gordon:
My best picture in months, several comments to the effect that its the voters' personal favourite, lots of 10s.

Score is just under 5...

That's weird. They must really really like it or really really hate it.
I can't figure it out. I'm starting to get discouraged.

I expected it to get a lot of people disliking it, but it is a shot I like a lot and has been 5 years in the making... Who cares what the voters think ? Why get discouraged by them ?

Marjo

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

07/19/2004 09:16:44 AM · #35

Well... I always submit photos I really like. It would be nice, just every once in awhile, to have others like it as much as I do. It helps alot when someone picks a favorite. I'm beaming all day.
(It's hard to admit to myself that maybe I'm just average. My enthusiasm is at the top but public appeal is at the middle or lower.

lagavulin

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

07/19/2004 09:57:30 AM · #36

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The good news is, it was at 4.2 after 22 votes, and has been steadily climbing ever since. I am really looking forward to getting some comments, so that I can understand how people perceive what I did. Of course, I thought I had a top 10 entry for sure. Then again, I always think that, despite the fact that I have yet to break the top 20. Thank goodness my ego is out of control, otherwise I would have given up long ago. :)

lwkimages

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

07/19/2004 10:22:01 AM · #37

Originally posted by lagavulin:

... I have yet to break the top 20.

Check your profile again, David. You've been in the top 20 twice. A top 10 is your next target :-)

-len

MAK

Leica CL

Leica 18-56mm f/3.5-5.6 Vario Elmar-T ASPH

07/19/2004 10:30:02 AM · #38

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up and down like an elevator run by children but still smiling.

lagavulin

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

07/19/2004 10:44:50 AM · #39

Originally posted by lenkphotos:

Originally posted by lagavulin:
... I have yet to break the top 20.

Check your profile again, David. You've been in the top 20 twice. A top 10 is your next target :-)

-len

You're right of course Len. I meant to say "break out of the the top 20". I have linguistic challenges to match my graphical ones. :)

joanns

Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro

07/19/2004 12:49:13 PM · #40

I'm heading for my worst score since my first submission. I tried to get online yesterday and unsubmit after I knew that a simple, well taken photograph without a lot of post manipulation or FX is just mediocre with the new editing rules. But alas, I couldn't get online for some reason so my submission has to stay. 5.01 and falling :)

Canon EOS-60D

07/19/2004 12:56:53 PM · #41

Originally posted by laurielblack:

Time for the DPC Slide again (a Monday regular!). :o)

...the slide has begun...down to 5.98, but that's still a great and respectable score, so I'm not complaining. Although I really liked the 8.33 I had after 10 votes! LOL

Kylie

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35

07/19/2004 01:24:29 PM · #42

Originally posted by joanns:

Very scary that someone of your caliber would be affected by the changes here lately. There's a lot of the really excellent ones here who seem to feel that they are needng to just go with what they enjoy, regardless. You are a great photographer and I hope all the different styles and levels stay thriving here.

graphicfunk

07/19/2004 01:42:25 PM · #43

I am still waiting for the troll voters or those that vote the one's just to break the stride. lmao

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joanns

Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro

07/19/2004 06:09:32 PM · #44

Kylie, thanks for your kind words :) I'm having fun watching my score degrade but it's very understandable.

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

07/19/2004 07:10:10 PM · #45

Originally posted by joanns:

I see shot after shot of simple, well taken photographs without a lot of post manipulation or FX. There are one or two with a bit of dodging/ burning and the selective desaturation challenge was all about that particular effect, but the rest seem just like well taken, competently finished photographs.

Faye Pekas

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

07/19/2004 07:18:50 PM · #46

Started at 5.8 after just a few votes. It dropped down to 5.0 within a few hours but now is back up to 5.6. 3 comments.. all helpful.

timganier

07/19/2004 08:14:36 PM · #47

At 5.2, better than the start of it all this morning. Just no comments. This gets to be agitating to me because comments are very helpful. This is not my worst, its not my best but I received a majority of my comments on the first day of voting, now nothing at all. What is a person suppose to think when receiving no comments, I take it as it is just a regular photo to the majority. I dont know, maybe my blue will come on the next challenge,lol. Yes I suffer from delusions of grandeur!

timganier

07/19/2004 08:16:49 PM · #48

Originally posted by Gordon:

Originally posted by joanns:
I'm heading for my worst score since my first submission. I tried to get online yesterday and unsubmit after I knew that a simple, well taken photograph without a lot of post manipulation or FX is just mediocre with the new editing rules. But alas, I couldn't get online for some reason so my submission has to stay. 5.01 and falling :)

I see shot after shot of simple, well taken photographs without a lot of post manipulation or FX. There are one or two with a bit of dodging/ burning and the selective desaturation challenge was all about that particular effect, but the rest seem just like well taken, competently finished photographs.

Well in this case, how do most people vote a simple, well taken photo?

Bassie

Nikon D70

07/19/2004 08:36:41 PM · #49

Were are all the comments? I only have 3 so far in Balance but have 55 in Words. I am happy about my scores though.

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graphicfunk