Lesson number one: you can't change the audience. If you want to score well, or sell well in real life, present what your audience wants. Your average viewer attention span (here, and many other places) is going to be about three seconds. If it doesn't click by then, you're going to be out of luck.
If it makes you feel better, though, I got suckered into thinking that an emulation of photojournalism from a particular period would do well, though possibly I'm just getting hammered for having included more than the year alone in the title. Three comments, all positive, and a score in the low fours.
I really should have known better than to enter a contest with a broken description, anyway, and twice over should have known better than to go for realism.
Well, I'm taking the lesson to heart this time. No more submissions without serious eye candy. |
