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07/02/2003 12:22:10 AM · #1 |
| Looking quickly through the Speed challenge makes me wonder how many people risked speeding tickets for this challenge! |
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07/02/2003 12:26:12 AM · #2 |
| Looking quickly through the Speed challenge makes me wonder how many people had the same damm idea |
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07/02/2003 12:26:22 AM · #3 |
| I've been through just under 1/3 of the entries so far and took a minute from voting. I can't help but wonder how many people will remember the challenge is SPEED, meaning the should be something out of focus in the photos this week. Are we in the end going to have a winner that doesn't really show the motion cause not enough people took into account that speed is movement and movement is going to make something in your photo out of focus? Just my thoughts cause I just left a comment on a photo that absolutely nothing was in focus. I know either your subject or your background is going to be out of focus to truly show speed. |
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07/02/2003 12:34:03 AM · #4 |
| I agree that motion would be one of the best ways to show speed. That's what I am looking for too. |
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07/02/2003 12:35:52 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by OneSweetSin:
I've been through just under 1/3 of the entries so far and took a minute from voting. I can't help but wonder how many people will remember the challenge is SPEED, meaning the should be something out of focus in the photos this week. Are we in the end going to have a winner that doesn't really show the motion cause not enough people took into account that speed is movement and movement is going to make something in your photo out of focus? Just my thoughts cause I just left a comment on a photo that absolutely nothing was in focus. I know either your subject or your background is going to be out of focus to truly show speed. |
I believe the challenge was "speed" and not "motion blur." While motion blur is one way to represent speed, there are others.
-Terry
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07/02/2003 12:41:48 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
I believe the challenge was "speed" and not "motion blur." While motion blur is one way to represent speed, there are others.
-Terry |
Very true Terry there were some stills that portrayed speed in this challenge too. And in some cases everything being blurred is speed but Motion blurr is a generalization.
Oh, notice Terry I did find the period key. =o) |
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07/02/2003 12:41:53 AM · #7 |
| I finished voting for all of them, and it did seem that most people took the same picture over and over, but even further, it seems that alot of post picture editing was used. |
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07/02/2003 01:03:04 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by MrCaN:
I finished voting for all of them, and it did seem that most people took the same picture over and over, but even further, it seems that alot of post picture editing was used. |
How did you ever vote on 192 entries in 40 minutes? That's twelve seconds an image - assuming no time for downloading and refreshing. That seems like a speed record in itself!
As for motion blur - I agree that it's not required to indicate speed, but I understanding OneSweetSin's comment. It does seem that some photo's have captured something moving at a great speed but the shutter speed is so fast it has frozen the moment and therefore doesn't convey the speed aspect well.
I'm just happy it's under 200 submissions for a change - I might get completely through voting this week. |
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07/02/2003 03:59:52 AM · #9 |
| This also swings both ways. Things that display speed may have blur from the motion, but just having a blurred picture doesn't in itself exhibit speed. I've seen quite a few shots so far that are just blurry - no sense of speed at all. |
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07/02/2003 04:08:59 AM · #10 |
| Oh, I thought that a "Speed" challenge meant we vote as fast as possible! |
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07/02/2003 05:01:05 AM · #11 |
the challenge was for the photo to create a feeling of speed-- but even then many (most?) didn't do that. If you don't have a photo, its hard to not try putting something in anyway.
Also, I have only been on a week, so I have only seen a few challenges, but these entries are so far the poorest. Anyone else? |
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07/02/2003 06:49:13 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by hortopth:
the challenge was for the photo to create a feeling of speed-- but even then many (most?) didn't do that. If you don't have a photo, its hard to not try putting something in anyway.
Also, I have only been on a week, so I have only seen a few challenges, but these entries are so far the poorest. Anyone else? |
There were a couple of excellent photos that really gave me the feeling of speed, but I have to agree, most weren't up to the usual standard |
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07/02/2003 07:18:49 AM · #13 |
... ANd some of us just went too abstract.
It is a bit sad really.. I took one of the best pictures of my life, and it is hovering at about 4.3 - 4.5
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07/02/2003 07:23:51 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by SharQ:
... ANd some of us just went too abstract.
It is a bit sad really.. I took one of the best pictures of my life, and it is hovering at about 4.3 - 4.5 |
Join the club! I was horrified this morning when I saw my submission was hovering at 4.3 - now it's down to 4.000.
At least agwright cheared me up with some outstanding joke this morning.
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07/02/2003 07:25:37 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by SharQ:
... ANd some of us just went too abstract.
It is a bit sad really.. I took one of the best pictures of my life, and it is hovering at about 4.3 - 4.5 |
I was quite satisfied with my entry this time, but at 4.7xxx it appears as a lot of people disagree with me ;) Mine actually makes you feel a little dizzy if you look at it, but it is a little abstract, I suppose. Got a comment saying that it took a while to figure it out ...
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07/02/2003 07:27:05 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by andrewlr:
Looking quickly through the Speed challenge makes me wonder how many people risked speeding tickets for this challenge! |
Not too many apparently... only one shot showed a car at above 200kmh.
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07/02/2003 07:39:00 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by SharQ:
It is a bit sad really.. I took one of the best pictures of my life, and it is hovering at about 4.3 - 4.5 |
My result is complete opposite - I took what I thought was my worst submission so far, but it's beating my previous two entries hands down.
My favourite shot (which I took for the B challenge) has the worst score out of the three - WHATTHA ?? |
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07/02/2003 09:24:07 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by andrewlr:
Looking quickly through the Speed challenge makes me wonder how many people risked speeding tickets for this challenge! |
Nearly went off the road trying to get a shot of my speedometer......but alas I didn't enter it. I came up with something else yesterday, not that it's doing great at the moment. :)
*edit from looking through this post mine's not doing so bad. This first time I checked when I got up this morning it was under 5.45 now it's over 5.5. Seems alot of mine do that, slowly creep up 0.3 to 0.4 by the end of the voting.
Message edited by author 2003-07-02 09:30:55.
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