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05/16/2003 10:14:33 AM · #26 |
I would have to say, like John, this site pushes me to take photos on a regular basis and pushes my imagination to its limits quite often.
I also get inspired by great photos and photographers. They push me to develop this relatively new means of personal expression.
Yes, I'm a fanatic!! :oP
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05/16/2003 10:36:14 AM · #27 |
I stopped a 20 year long hobby of competitive sports at the beginning of this year and started a new hobby with photography. I entered a photo in DPC for the landscape challenge in January just for kicks. Once I started seeing numbers and scores etc, that competitiveness from my sporting career came back again in a different form and it didn̢۪t take long for me to get hooked. So the answer to the question of why I take part in DPC is not only to improve my photography but also to compete. I love competition. My personal aim on this site is to get better and better and lately I have found that the competition is more against myself now rather than against other photographers. Also, this site is just a lot of fun, especially now that my wife (anastasia) is also a member.
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05/16/2003 10:41:20 AM · #28 |
I compete against Kiwi! :-) and he's kicking my butt! LOL
Seriously, I use DPC to find assignments that I normally would not shoot and then try to find a unique subject and work on some erea of my technical skills that I feel is weak. That way I can keep an interest in a hobby that is growing into more!
-danny
Originally posted by kiwiness:
I stopped a 20 year long hobby of competitive sports at the beginning of this year and started a new hobby with photography. I entered a photo in DPC for the landscape challenge in January just for kicks. Once I started seeing numbers and scores etc, that competitiveness from my sporting career came back again in a different form and it didn̢۪t take long for me to get hooked. So the answer to the question of why I take part in DPC is not only to improve my photography but also to compete. I love competition. My personal aim on this site is to get better and better and lately I have found that the competition is more against myself now rather than against other photographers. Also, this site is just a lot of fun, especially now that my wife (anastasia) is also a member. |
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05/16/2003 10:53:23 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by Jean:
I took up photography 11 months ago and I am very grateful for what I have learned through dpchallenge. It has encouraged me to be creative, given me inspiration and makes me wish I had a really good camera! |
Ha....... Jean I am sure could could use any kind of camera and the result would be stunning.
My aim is to enjoy the effort, work and images of people on this site and to learn from them. I am never disappointed and usually astonished.... especially from contributors like Jean, who always exceed expectations with a strong vision, and great ability to communicate. |
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05/16/2003 10:53:50 AM · #30 |
For Team D30 to squash Team 10D into the ground and point fingers at them while they cringe with pain as we laugh with orgasmic glee.
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05/16/2003 10:55:36 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by bamaster:
For Team D30 to squash Team 10D into the ground and point fingers at them while they cringe with pain as we laugh with orgasmic glee. |
lol!!! Now I am just waiting for Jacko's reply on this one :-)
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05/21/2003 11:23:45 AM · #32 |
Originally posted by bamaster:
For Team D30 to squash Team 10D into the ground and point fingers at them while they cringe with pain as we laugh with orgasmic glee. |
Just added myself to the ranks of the 10D team :-) |
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05/21/2003 11:46:23 AM · #33 |
Having friends and family look at my pictures and say 'that's really nice, dear' just wasnt cutting it as a validation that I could take 'good' pictures. I'm not even sure how I found DPC anymore, but after my first challenge, landscape, I got introduced to seeing things in a whole different way. Now I just annoy said friends and family with 'wow, those wrinkles on your face would look really good in b&w with some black poster board behind your head' or something similar.
My current aims are kind of simple - score a 6, save up for a 10D (maybe Jacko uses subliminal messages in his posts?), and of course learn to be the best photographer that *I* can be.
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05/21/2003 12:29:33 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by bamaster:
For Team D30 to squash Team 10D into the ground and point fingers at them while they cringe with pain as we laugh with orgasmic glee. |
Hey, so does this mean I'm on the Sony F707 team? Cool, I'm in some really good company here!
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05/21/2003 12:48:15 PM · #35 |
| My goal was get an average overall score of 5. I did that last week. My new goal is to hack into the DPC servers and remove first entries . |
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05/21/2003 12:51:40 PM · #36 |
| I'm the Captain and only active member of the Toshiba PDR-M71 team by the way. lol Well at least I have the highest scores for that camera. ;) |
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05/21/2003 01:08:53 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by Konador:
I think consistant high scores are more important that winning a ribbon then going back to 5 scores again. (I say this after winning a blue ribbon in my 3rd challenge then putting up with about 45 challenges before I managed to get a yellow ribbon... and still havent got another 7 score since then!) |
I think scoes above 7 (i.e. 7.000 and above) are as much a matter of inspiration and fortune as anything - provided there is a degree of mastery of the technical elements of photography. There are currently only 272 shots rated that high in the history of the site.
But then great photography has always been a matter of inspiration and fortune.
For my part, I'm here to compete - in, I hope, a friendly manner (that is, I try hard to be fair with my voting - no average vote of 3.x for me), and secondly to be pushed to learn.
Ed
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05/21/2003 01:24:54 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by bamaster:
For Team D30 to squash Team 10D into the ground and point fingers at them while they cringe with pain as we laugh with orgasmic glee. |
Hey, let's hear it for the Olympus c700 UZ!!
Martin
(waits for other obscure cameras
to come out of the woodwork) |
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05/21/2003 01:31:37 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by Malokata:
Originally posted by bamaster:
For Team D30 to squash Team 10D into the ground and point fingers at them while they cringe with pain as we laugh with orgasmic glee. |
Hey, let's hear it for the Olympus c700 UZ!!
Martin
(waits for other obscure cameras
to come out of the woodwork) |
I may have you beat in the obscure camera world...
I really like my camera, though. |
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05/21/2003 01:34:23 PM · #40 |
Oh yeah, forgot to add 'to knock bod's toaster shot off the top of the 602 pile'. Not heading for that just yet though :-)
Ed
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05/21/2003 01:53:02 PM · #41 |
| Simply....DPChallenge keeps me looking to take the perfect picture. |
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05/21/2003 02:02:41 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by e301:
Oh yeah, forgot to add 'to knock bod's toaster shot off the top of the 602 pile'. |
Hey! Stop that thought right now. :p
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05/21/2003 02:13:26 PM · #43 |
The technical aspect of making a photograph was easy. But technically good photo's of boring subjects with lousy composition suck. I think I mainly use DPchallenge to develop my eye to make cool photo's that are worth looking at.
Right now I don't have a lot of time because of my job and some recent shoots that need to get 'developed' in photoshop. Three of those are going to get published in two local weekly newspapers, at least 6 will get into a historic society's yearbook and 100 have to be printed for their archive. Getting some photo's published is also a lot fun. :)
I would like to make some wow pics and get another 7+ with 50 comments.
And I would also like to visit DPCfanatics in the weekends, but I fall asleep all the time. :(
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05/21/2003 10:30:41 PM · #44 |
Like jacko .. I want to make the team 10D do very well but .. I admit ... he is far away in front of me for that !!!
I do not have any goal in DPC by itself .. when I submit .. my goal is kind of to get a ribbon and if possible with a personal shot, not a 'standard' one. But I am not here for that 'per se'. I like to talk about the site with friends or family, talk to them about the picture I submit. This is something I enjoy a lot.
Sometimes I spent more time here, sometimes less .. currently it's less because I do pictures on the side.
If Ellen (emorgan) read this, I admit that one of my achievement so far (I did not get a ribbon yet .. if I get one one day) has been her comments on 3 of my pictures for the critic club ... it has been a lot of work for her .. but it has bring me a lot of thinking on my pictures (plus the fact that she liked them).
So .. here .. thank you Ellen again :-)
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05/21/2003 10:41:13 PM · #45 |
My major goal at DPC is to learn as much as possible, by making as many mistakes as possible. The mistakes are not a goal as such, but I beleive it's easier to have them pointed out by others than to find them myself.
In a bigger sense, I'm moving away from playing music. I've been a musician for as long as I can remember, but it does nothing for me now. I've tried a little filming and a little drawing and finally landed on photography. My highest creative goal right now is to learn how to draw things the way I see them. But until then I will photograph things as good as I can and try to show how I view reality. |
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