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06/13/2003 09:35:25 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by eikidigi:
eloise 31 vote-1, 37 vote-2, 55 vote-3, so I dont thing the colour is very pretty! |
You can only say if you think the color is pretty based on looking at the *shot*, not the scores. :-> The scores make me think nobody thought it fit the topic, actually, since mostly the really low stuff is reserved for that.
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06/13/2003 11:32:38 AM · #27 |
eloise, it wasnt a terrible shot but the colors werent too apparent because it was really underexposed. you can usually fix that in photoshop with a simple levels boost.
then it becomes a decent abstract :). I took the liberty of doing so, hope you don't mind, and i also cropped it so the goo was more of the picture. it looks kind of pixilated because i up-rezed it to 600 pix because i dont have the original to work with, but you get the idea.
//www.pbase.com/image/17782118
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06/13/2003 11:42:16 AM · #28 |
For the liquid challenge I enter a picture that was intentionally in soft focus to give it a dreamy effect. People left comments that the focus was bad, this that and the other. Some pictures you can tell are out of focus, but some pictures are in focus, but soft focus intentionally and I think we should all take a minute or two before we give somebody a low score (myself included sometimes) because on soft focus. Here's the picture I'm talking about. I know there's many other flaws in the shot, but the focus was not one of them.
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=23330
Message edited by author 2003-06-13 11:46:09.
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06/13/2003 11:49:01 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by chiqui74:
For the liquid challenge I enter a picture that was intentionally in soft focus to give it a dreamy effect. People left comments that the focus was bad, this that and the other. Some pictures you can tell are out of focus, but some pictures are in focus, but soft focus intentionally and I think we should all take a minute or two before we give somebody a low score (myself included sometimes) because on soft focus. Here's the picture I'm talking about. I know there's many other flaws in the shot, but the focus was not one of them.
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=23330 |
Hmm. When I look at that one, my first reaction is 'I'm looking at it through a smeary window,' which probably isn't what you were trying to do. Why did you choose a soft focus deliberately? What would soft focus give the shot that a crisp focus wouldn't, to you?
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06/13/2003 11:50:30 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by magnetic9999:
eloise, it wasnt a terrible shot but the colors werent too apparent because it was really underexposed. you can usually fix that in photoshop with a simple levels boost.
then it becomes a decent abstract :). I took the liberty of doing so, hope you don't mind, and i also cropped it so the goo was more of the picture. it looks kind of pixilated because i up-rezed it to 600 pix because i dont have the original to work with, but you get the idea.
//www.pbase.com/image/17782118 |
Believe it or not, my version is exactly the same colors as it was in reality; in yours, the bedsheet becomes a bizarre pale aqua, and there are what I'd call overexposed gleams in the gel. :-> I do like the recrop, though.
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06/13/2003 11:57:17 AM · #31 |
For the liquid challenge I enter a picture that was intentionally in soft focus to give it a dreamy effect. People left comments that the focus was bad, this that and the other. Some pictures you can tell are out of focus, but some pictures are in focus, but soft focus intentionally and I think we should all take a minute or two before we give somebody a low score (myself included sometimes) because on soft focus. Here's the picture I'm talking about. I know there's many other flaws in the shot, but the focus was not one of them.
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=23330
Hmm. When I look at that one, my first reaction is 'I'm looking at it through a smeary window,' which probably isn't what you were trying to do. Why did you choose a soft focus deliberately? What would soft focus give the shot that a crisp focus wouldn't, to you?
Like I said before, I thought the soft focus would give the image a dreamy effect, which was what I was going for.
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06/13/2003 01:06:40 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by eloise:
While we're rehashing entries, I was puzzled by the comments on my Liquid entry. Comments like "The colors are very pretty, but everything is so out of focus, that you really can't appreciate the colors." just leave me blinking, because until I resized it slightly it was so sharp you could count the threads in the bedsheet that forms the background.
Looking at it now, does it help any to know it's a gloppy puddle of hairstyling gel? Nobody that commented seemed to think it was a liquid, which means my attempt to show a viscous liquid as a sculptural shape clearly didn't work. :-> |
No offense, but I kind of thought it was bird poop. It has that kind of swirly-ness to it. |
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06/13/2003 01:13:13 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by inspzil:
Originally posted by eloise:
While we're rehashing entries, I was puzzled by the comments on my Liquid entry. |
No offense, but I kind of thought it was bird poop. It has that kind of swirly-ness to it. |
Same kind of physics - a gloppy viscous liquid dropped sporadically onto a surface from a height. :->
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06/13/2003 02:34:16 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by e301:
Monet and Van Gogh maybe, but Jackson Pollock would get comments like 'did you spill the paint tin?'.
And you could imagine Mark Rothko having taken this shot: look how it scored.
In the primary colour challenge there are a number of 'off the wall' shots - and I hope I gave them all some thought - but they just weren't intersting to me.
Ed |
These kinds of shots or at least some of them may well be very gratifying to 'some' of us, which would make the entry worthwhile.
I remember awarding a high rank and commenting positively to the above, perhaps partly in recognition of the immediate exitement I felt due to its breaking the monotony and tedium of viewing a mass of shots without this ingredient. When a photo is not catering to 'anyone', I wake up.
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