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01/13/2003 03:40:16 AM · #26 |
This is one of the first challenges I've passed on since I first found this site. I decided not to enter because I was certain that many voters would be on a "doesn't meet the challenge" frenzy... When I think of a landscape, it can include buildings, people, sea, clouds, animals, sunrises, sunsets, barns (singular or plural), bridges, rivers, and just about anything else... It was clear early on that several folks had decided a "Landscape" needed to conform to some extremely narrow definition... It's sad...
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01/13/2003 07:50:55 AM · #27 |
if it has land in it and is wide angle it is a landscape pure and simple, what adorns and decorates that landscape is whatever the artist decides to include. As always opinions will vary on taste and thats what you get at a site like this is lots of different opinions.
Some people will get upset they got marked lowly on this one, but i think that is essential because it is easy to take a landscape photo but to get one that stands out is a challenge, i tried and i am doing averagely as i suspected, but i am sure it is a mix of high marks and low marks.
this is the sort of challenge i like as it is about opinion of what people like rather that how big your studio is. And a studion i don't have.
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01/13/2003 08:08:30 AM · #28 |
| Personnally I have a wide interpretatio nof it ... city landscape are fine with me and actually welcomed and houses, people would be fine as well. Maybe I will not like it, hard to kow, but for those I would not mark down regarding the theme. |
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01/13/2003 10:57:58 AM · #29 |
I am a little disappointed in the dpchallenge voters' need to confine the challenge to such narrow acceptable standards. It seems that the art of photography is not merely the gross repetition of a requirement, as it so often is in, say, photojournalism, but rather in the expression of the photographer's *interpretation* of a subject. And, as an art form, that interpretation should maybe be given a little more latitude than the strictest definitions we might find in Funk and Wagnall's.
I have often in my comments made note that I felt a particular photo did not truly meet the challenge assignment, but rarely have I downgraded the score of a photo drastically because of my feelings on that point. Only in the most extreme and obvious cases do I deduct heavy points due to noncompliance. I am much more likely to downgrade a photo due to technical issues, or because a photo does not move me.
I have more to say on this issue, but since it's Monday, and my photo's getting hammered by the at-large community, I am going to go get more coffee instead.
Best regards, y'all...
Mark
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01/13/2003 11:23:02 AM · #30 |
Lets say you have a challenge "take a picture of a baby" and someone submits a picture of an adult. Would you mark him down for that even though it is a well exsecuted shot? I would. He should have stuck with the challenge.
If landscape and cityscape are the same then why is it when you submit your photo there are two different galleries to stick your photo in? Cityscape or landscape. Now what if we have a challenge next week "Cityscape" Can I go and submit a landscape photo with no buildings or houses?
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01/13/2003 11:28:17 AM · #31 |
I think a cityscape is a specific type of landscape. "landscape' is a general term and 'cityscape' is a specific type of landscape :)
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01/13/2003 11:44:40 AM · #32 |
I like definition 2b, which really says that the barn can be part of the landscape.
Main Entry: 1land·scape
Pronunciation: 'lan(d)-"skAp
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Dutch landschap, from land + -schap -ship
Date: 1598
1 a : a picture representing a view of natural inland scenery b : the art of depicting such scenery
2 a : the landforms of a region in the aggregate b : a portion of territory that can be viewed at one time from one place c : a particular area of activity : SCENE
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01/13/2003 12:13:39 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by mjcecil:
I am a little disappointed in the dpchallenge voters' need to confine the challenge to such narrow acceptable standards. It seems that the art of photography is not merely the gross repetition of a requirement, as it so often is in, say, photojournalism, but rather in the expression of the photographer's *interpretation* of a subject. And, as an art form, that interpretation should maybe be given a little more latitude than the strictest definitions we might find in Funk and Wagnall's.
I have often in my comments made note that I felt a particular photo did not truly meet the challenge assignment, but rarely have I downgraded the score of a photo drastically because of my feelings on that point. Only in the most extreme and obvious cases do I deduct heavy points due to noncompliance. I am much more likely to downgrade a photo due to technical issues, or because a photo does not move me.
I have more to say on this issue, but since it's Monday, and my photo's getting hammered by the at-large community, I am going to go get more coffee instead.
Best regards, y'all...
Mark |
Well-said; thanks for saving me so much typing! |
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