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01/26/2012 05:10:30 PM · #1 |
It's sometimes hard to keep track of our own progress. Everything we do is so subjective. But I just did something that anyone with more than a year on DPC can do, which really set the record straight for me. Check out the images in your first year here. Then look at your most recent year.
Amazing, isn't it? |
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01/26/2012 05:31:07 PM · #2 |
I spent only one year here, but I can say that without DPChallenge I would never create images like these ones:
     etc. etc. etc.
All these ones have been taken for a challenge, therefore without DPC they would never exist. That's why I love this place :) |
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01/26/2012 05:56:41 PM · #3 |
| I haven't been long enough at DPC to make this comparison but I can see how you have developed as a photographer - amazing Johanna! |
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01/26/2012 10:57:31 PM · #4 |
| I have just finished my first year here, but you are right. I generally focus on how much I don't know and how much I need to learn. During weeks like this when I have an entry in voting that is doing really poorly I can question if I have learned anything at all about photography. However, if I look back over my portfolio I can see I may make a misstep once and a while but I on the whole I am encouraged by how much I have learned. |
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01/27/2012 01:04:36 AM · #5 |
The key really is to stick with it, no matter how discouraging it gets. I know it's not fun getting low scores, but those are the images I look at most, to see what went wrong, why they didn't connect. Sometimes there's no answer, and it's just that my tastes are different from everyone else's, LOL!
Thank you, Margaret. Your first images here were WAAAAAY better than anything I posted for the first two years. |
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01/27/2012 01:16:18 AM · #6 |
I still like a lot of the images I posted my first year. And I've sucked worse this year than the past two. But hey, it is what it is!
Way to go, Johanna, by the way. You've REALLY kicked it up about a dozen notches! Congrats on all 7s on the profile page. |
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01/27/2012 01:46:18 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
I still like a lot of the images I posted my first year. And I've sucked worse this year than the past two. But hey, it is what it is!
Way to go, Johanna, by the way. You've REALLY kicked it up about a dozen notches! Congrats on all 7s on the profile page. |
Haha, I totally know how you feel Deb! |
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01/27/2012 02:53:41 AM · #8 |
I too love some of my entries. Back then I was far more enthusiastic about all the DPC exercise...
2003
  
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... this not that much  but meanwhile I managed to get rid of the habit
... hmm maybe more refinement rather then (big) improvement
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01/27/2012 03:09:21 AM · #9 |
| I peaked my second or third year. I just hang around for the donuts. |
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01/28/2012 11:27:22 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by Tiberius:
... hmm maybe more refinement rather then (big) improvement |
That may just be the greatest gift of all - finding what you like best.
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I peaked my second or third year. I just hang around for the donuts. |
Now your avatar makes sense...
And Ken, sweetie, you've barely scratched the surface of your potential :-) |
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01/28/2012 11:43:47 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I peaked my second or third year. I just hang around for the donuts. |
they have donuts......you didn't tell me they had donuts.......
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01/28/2012 11:55:30 AM · #12 |
When I look back at my past shots, which goes back several years, I don't think I've really changed much. Most of my stuff is still pretty mediocre, as it was then. It took me a while to get over bad scores but I think I'm pretty much over it.
I pretty much shoot what I enjoy shooting and if people don't like it, oh well. If they do like it, it's icing on the cake.
I did manage to get one ribbon though, so I was happy with that.
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01/28/2012 11:56:56 AM · #13 |
Alex, that photo is simply amazing (two sides of the same story). That must've taken a whole lot of work to make.
I've seen photos with the swirling stars effect before (like in the third one you posted), I've always wondered how people do it. |
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01/28/2012 12:12:57 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by o2bskating:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I peaked my second or third year. I just hang around for the donuts. |
they have donuts......you didn't tell me they had donuts....... |
We were afraid you'd eat them all. ;D |
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01/28/2012 12:13:57 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by bmartuch:
When I look back at my past shots, which goes back several years, I don't think I've really changed much. Most of my stuff is still pretty mediocre, as it was then. It took me a while to get over bad scores but I think I'm pretty much over it.
I pretty much shoot what I enjoy shooting and if people don't like it, oh well. If they do like it, it's icing on the cake.
I did manage to get one ribbon though, so I was happy with that. |
+1 (though I managed to snag two ribbons, it was luck more than anything else). |
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