... I thought I'd try, on the Light challenge, to take Robert Ward (bear_music)'s approach to voting ... always willing to try something different, and new.
For those that didn't read the recent thread, this amounts to categorising every shot into either 6 or 4, and then working on through there.
Well, I can't do it. My approach of late, around the last six months or so, has been to comment on every shot that comes up in voting - though that means I regularly fail to get to tthe 20% necessary for my votes to count. I enjoy that process: it allows me to comment on shots that i wouldn't otherwise bother with - in effect, forces me to propose ideas and thoughts and suggestions to shots that I'm certain would otherwise get very few comments if any, and actually spend some time with those images, rather than the rapid dismissal a more speedy assessment encourages.
I'm not particularly disparaging Robert's approach: he's been around the business of photography quite long enough to know how to control such impulses, I'm sure. But what is bothering me is that it becomes almost a reflecx action: image comes up, click on vote, image comes up, click on vote, image comes up, click on vote, image comes up, click on vote, image comes up, click on vote, and so on and on. After 70 or so images, I find it very hard to concentrate on the actual picture, and have twice or thrice had to go back and correct a vote of 4 that should have been a 6; and I find myself really really looking forward to the point when I can start going through the 6's and re-assessing them, and writing a little about them.
I know this isn't going to stop many people ruhsing through their voting - and indeed, learning to shoot so as to catch the eye in the first seconds is one of the very bad habits that dpc encourages - but I just thought I'd report my experiences. Thankyou for listening.
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