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08/26/2002 08:34:00 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by just-married:
I have an on-going inner struggle with how to vote for a photo that is a damn good challenge interpretation, but not necessarily a good photo. My current method is not to let it affect my scoring, but to comment constructively. It just doesn't seem right to allow non-photographic creativity affect the rating on a photo.
I liked the pencil challenge less than most people did (or else those people just aren't speaking up) primarily because there was little room for abstraction -- which I enjoy so much in photography. There are a handful that managed to include pencils blantantly without making me feel like I was looking at a photo of a pencil created for a pencil challenge. I think that makes a stronger photo or at least one that appeals to me more...
It seems the group is fairly evenly divided between the people who like the straight-forward-no-questions-about-it challenges and those that prefer the interpretive-stretch-your-imagination challenges. I think I'd put myself in the latter category.
I'm with you on that. There were quite a few good technical photos this time that were pretty similar.
I like to stretch, to find that line between not obvious but not too oblique.
Apparently I crossed the line on this one this time. I had a good number of comments that were less favorable because my photo did not techically include a pencil (it was the macro of an old pencil sharpener). Some members really dug it and others were offended that they couldn't see a "pencil" (just shavings).
Oh well.
I will continue to do it the way it interests me and I will rate the same way.
* This message has been edited by the author on 8/26/2002 8:34:13 PM. |
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08/26/2002 09:37:15 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by mscott821:
Apparently I crossed the line on this one this time. I had a good number of comments that were less favorable because my photo did not techically include a pencil (it was the macro of an old pencil sharpener). Some members really dug it and others were offended that they couldn't see a "pencil" (just shavings).
Oh well.
I will continue to do it the way it interests me and I will rate the same way
I was one of your 10's for that shot... I thought it was an excellent shot and an excellent interpetation of the challenge... Don't let the closed minds bring you down... you got 8 10s... That means something...
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08/26/2002 09:53:46 PM · #28 |
| I started to say that I agreed with mscott's most recent comment on your photo. Ha! That would have made me look like an ass, huh? I agree. I liked this photo quite a bit. I agree with the exact technical challenges that you point out in the photo. But the concept was dead-on. Anyone who didn't see the pencil in that must have been looking for shots to miss a pencil in. Great job. |
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