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11/29/2004 09:30:12 PM · #1 |
I think this is the first time I have ever asked this question so please offer your comments. I am not saying it’s a perfect picture but I don’t see anything-major wrong technically. IMO I felt it showed ‘time passing’ emotionally. I wanted my photograph to be different but yet at the same time show ‘time passing’.
I welcome any comments good or bad that may help me understand why it didn̢۪t score higher. Is the subject to sad? Is it the technique?
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11/29/2004 10:16:45 PM · #2 |
Well I certainly would like to help you but I can't find nothing to say. The composition is ok while it could have more negative space. The duotone treatment is ok too with a good balance between dark spot and highlight. Quality, sharpness, focus, all of them are ok there's no noise nd a reasonnable amount of details. For me it's a OK picture worth a middle range score (5.5) in a free study. I think the problem is the subject and how people relate to it. No real WOW and not a subject that most people could say about it :"I should have taken it my self". I guess that's just it. Now if someone could explain to me why my last 2 entries did so bad. cause I'm left with almost no negative (or constructive) comments and a well below average score.
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11/29/2004 10:21:24 PM · #3 |
The image is just uninteresting. Most people will look at an image like this one and see only a commonplace object and no exceptional qualities.
The picture is DULL.
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11/29/2004 11:10:50 PM · #4 |
I just read your comments on the photo and the connection to Unchained Melody and it just sent chills down my spine. I have to agree that the photo isn't exceptional, while technically perfect. But the mind and heart to conceive of this is exceptional.
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11/29/2004 11:17:16 PM · #5 |
| Scott, your picture is very well done. I think one reason it didn't do as well as it could is the subject. Just before I joined DPC there had been a lot of tombstone shots and people just got sick of them. If you notice in the challenges there are certain things here at DPC that just don't seem to do well no matter how well you photogrpah them - like figurines, tombstones, kids. Other things like drops of water or other liquid tend to do better. |
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11/30/2004 12:24:20 AM · #6 |
Thanks to everyone that took the time to comment on this tread. First I want to say thank you for your honesty and second congratulate the three ribbon winners along with everyone that entered this challenge.
Will this challenge change what I submit in the future, no I don̢۪t think so. I know it may be a long time before I win a ribbon because some of my photographs are not going to be what the main stream wants to see. I want to put emotion and feeling in my photographs and its going to be hard for others to see it the way I did until they read the story behind it. I accept that and I am I no way complaining about my score or placement. Thanks Kylie for reading the story and commenting on it. And again thanks to everyone that took the time to offer their comments.
Scott W.
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11/30/2004 04:17:56 PM · #7 |
David was born a year after the end of WW2 and into the dawning of a new reality. The cold war and the nuclear arms race painted a frightening backdrop for a young boy who was told that he'd rather be dead than red. He grew up listening to his father's Glen Miliier reccords but prefering the young Elvis Prestley. He saw his countrymen walk on the moon, and his country lose interest in their great adventure.
At the age of 17, he went to war in vietnam. He served his country in their fight against communism and returned home at the age of 22 to marry his young bride in the year of the Tet offensive(the last desperate attempt by the US to salvage a doomed campaign). He may of felt betrayed by the lack of popular homeland support for the war by the "hippy" generation and the duplicity of the politicial machenations of the corrupt Nixon government.
He enjoyed 23 years of marriage until his death on his wedding anniversary at the young age of 45. His 38 year old widow is now 51 years of age and knows a different world. The passing of the Soviet threat, the internet and the global economy. David could not have ever imagined the world of today back in 1946.
Your photo is not "DULL". I scored it an 8 because it told a story of the passing of time that would be worthy of a feature screenplay ( for those with the eyes to see).
I just hope that Dana Marie has a long and happy life.
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11/30/2004 05:02:05 PM · #8 |
I'll give it to you straight: your photo placed where it did because people liked the other photos better.
There ain't no rhyme or reason.
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11/30/2004 05:31:59 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by SDW65:
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First off, I want to say that the concept for this image is solid for this challenge, the framing and perspective good and the fact the background sky is stark white is very appropriate. It is a touching image.
My interpretation:
I have never been a big fan of sepia and think this would be better in B&W. (Why cameras have a sepia setting and NOT a B&W setting is beyond my comprehension.)
I agree with others that the image is bland in the submitted form. You need eye candy to attract the voter's attention. I added some highlighting to the image; after all, this was in an advanced challenge.
The idea of the added highlighting is to hit the viewer over the head with what you were trying to point out, but not to overdo it. Don't know if it accomplished that, but that was the idea.
The thing I did not like about what I did was that it lost some image detail.
Sometimes we develop an emotional attachment to the images we capture that others just do not see. I think that was the case with this one.
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