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06/15/2005 03:30:58 PM · #1 |
of a ribbon, Bear Musics entry in "construction{" was one of the most creative entries I have seen in the challenge.
Why it was not rated higher is a mystery to me |
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06/15/2005 03:33:40 PM · #2 |
opps..edited for stupidity
Message edited by author 2005-06-15 15:34:45. |
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06/15/2005 03:43:49 PM · #3 |
| I've already been involved in one discussion about people's voting habits today and I hope your thread doesn't go the way that one did. I must agree that it scored much lower than I rated it. |
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06/15/2005 03:44:12 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by kiwinick:
of a ribbon, Bear Musics entry in "construction |
It's an alright shot but wouldn't place it near the top by any means (no offence bear_music). He's done much better as far as I can tell. |
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06/15/2005 04:06:41 PM · #5 |
to aid discussion
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06/15/2005 04:12:35 PM · #6 |
Not a mystery or robbed. The sum of the votes.
It's technically okay but didn't really grab me.
I also mean no offence to mr.bear. :)
Nor to kiwinick, your entitled to your opinion. |
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06/15/2005 04:13:06 PM · #7 |
| Well, I thought it was worth a 10. But there's no telling just what prompted the "fatal five" verdict among the majority of voters. |
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06/15/2005 04:20:05 PM · #8 |
| I think my challenge comment sums up the lower scores, to some of us it didn't fit the challenge, even though it was a wonderful shot. Kind of like my Ansel Adams, but not as much. |
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06/15/2005 04:26:03 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by vtruan:
I think my challenge comment sums up the lower scores, to some of us it didn't fit the challenge, even though it was a wonderful shot. Kind of like my Ansel Adams, but not as much. |
Your challenge, difficult as it may be, is to create, compose and shoot an artistic rendition of something construction oriented.
By what stretch of the imagination are a couple of carpenters and tools NOT contruction oriented? This is what confuses me...
R.
Message edited by author 2005-06-20 12:50:34.
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06/15/2005 04:33:48 PM · #10 |
Bear Music...that's my question too. We are contractors and I've yet to see anything build itself. I just saw another post about the blue ribbon image not meeting the challenge. And my reaction was "A construction worker on a construction site doesn't meet the challenge?"
Well, I guess that's just the law of averages. For what it's worth, I gave your image a 7, and I usually come in within a point of the general average.
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06/15/2005 04:34:25 PM · #11 |
bear_music,
To me I saw a made and woman! I thought the man looked more like defending himself than seeing a plumbers crack under a sink. Sorry, I have no problem the photo technically at all, but... Normlly I'd score it a 1 for not meeting the challenge, but the quality for my opinion doesn't meet the challenge shot was to high, so a 3 from me. Van |
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06/15/2005 04:35:20 PM · #12 |
| I don't know why I am thinking that it'd make a great domestic violence poster :) Just a thought, that's all. |
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06/15/2005 04:36:28 PM · #13 |
Hey Robert, your photo would make a perfect cover for a cheesy romance novel! You could make a fortune!
:) |
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06/15/2005 04:45:15 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
Originally posted by vtruan:
I think my challenge comment sums up the lower scores, to some of us it didn't fit the challenge, even though it was a wonderful shot. Kind of like my Ansel Adams, but not as much. |
Your challenge, difficult as it may be, is to create, compose and shoot an artistic rendition of something [/b]construction oriented[/b].
By what stretch of the imagination are a couple of carpenters and tools NOT contruction oriented? This is what confuses me...
R. |
Maybe it was the inference that carpentry was not the "activity" being portrayed:
Originally posted by PollyBean:
Hey Robert, your photo would make a perfect cover for a cheesy romance novel! You could make a fortune!
:) |
I also think that, overall, dark-toned images tend to score a bit lower here than a similar compositions with a brighter color scheme. I think this especially hurts in the cases of voters who scan the thumbnails page to pick and choose certain photos to vote on (probably giving higher votes); I think dark, non-detailed thumbnail images don't attract as much attention.
Message edited by author 2005-06-15 16:46:07. |
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06/15/2005 04:47:55 PM · #15 |
I love the picture and think it meets the challenge and is technically awesome. But I have to confess to having been MANY MANY times baffled by amazing pictures that score in the middle of the pack -- or on the low end of the pack. It's one of the reasons I always 2nd-guess my own pictures and almost always come close to pulling every picture 10 minutes before deadline, Because I "just know" that even tho I like the picture, it's going to be one of those that for some reason the voters don't like. Who can figure. I guess we shouldn't worry so much about getting the right "formula" for high votes and just keep sharing our expressions and style of photography. I'm talking to myself too because I still need to work on that a lot!
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06/15/2005 05:03:33 PM · #16 |
I loved it and gave it an 8. Great shot.
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06/15/2005 05:20:49 PM · #17 |
Hey Bear - keep your chin up. All you have to do is take a look at the average score given of those who make comments like "did not meet challenge". It happens in every challenge and ends up being washed out by those who have a smidge more vision.
Good photo.
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06/15/2005 05:29:52 PM · #18 |
Didn't love the picture but it's absolutely well within the challenge rules/guidelines. The word "oriented" in the description pretty much opens things up quite a bit but the description does initially set everyone up to think structures or the like. But who really reads them carefully anyway? Just another description authored to make some peoples lives miserable. I do wish they would guide us ALL more carefully but what can you do???
That kind of ambiguity make it tough to enter the open challenges where people are more rough and tumble.
That picture would be perfect for Handy As I Wanna Be which is one of the oddest yet funniest books I've ever read. It's about the mishaps of a compulsive handyman...that isn't all that handy. Give it a read.
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06/17/2005 08:34:29 AM · #19 |
I really like this photograph. The close crop works superbly, it removes the faces which would otherwise dominate the picture, we are forced to look at the textures, the little details and to use our imagination. It looks to me as if the photographer wants us to think around the picture.
I gave it an 8 on my first pass and might have bumped it up to a 9 if I had found the time to go through the whole collection again a second time. Why not a 10? Well, a couple of other pictures happened to appeal more on the day. On another day, who knows?
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06/17/2005 01:31:59 PM · #20 |
It didn't wow me over either. I guess that's the subjectivity of art in any form. Kind of like the old expression "I don't know much about art but I know what I like." Maybe it seemed too contrived to me. I don't know. Just not one that made a huge impact. Sorry.
My 2 cents. |
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06/19/2005 08:50:22 PM · #21 |
| From my perspective, the third hand was your undoing. That bus failed to stop at "Construction" and instead transported the image to the corner of "Forged" and "Melodrama." |
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06/19/2005 08:56:45 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by RonBeam:
From my perspective, the third hand was your undoing. That bus failed to stop at "Construction" and instead transported the image to the corner of "Forged" and "Melodrama." |
bingo |
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06/19/2005 09:08:43 PM · #23 |
We prefer to see it as "consructively melodramatic" jejeje�
R.
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06/19/2005 09:26:37 PM · #24 |
If I had known it was bear_music, just for being a tribal member of the red brotherhood of humans, I would of given it a 10.
But since it was not known who the contributor was, I saw it for what it was.
A nice idea, harsh lighting, nice lines, color ok, comp good, a little too staged, but not bad enought to get low scores.
I would of added a jack hammer, may be some constuction gooo, and maybe some more constuction crap but other than that its nice.
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06/19/2005 09:35:08 PM · #25 |
i find there are way too many 'technical' people out there, too busy worried about meeting some words than letting their minds go and 'reading' the photo.. which i must admit not many people can do.... i think every photo in all the challenges meet's the criteria, you have to look and read into what the photographer of the photo may have been thinking, to me thats half the fun of loooking at photos..... take your self out of your own square and put your self in their's.... it's fun and opens your mind up to so many new and wonderful things.....
just my 5 cents worth...
www.kellymuncephotography.com
Message edited by author 2005-06-19 21:35:51. |
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