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02/10/2006 05:17:59 PM · #1 |
Okay, the disclaimor --
This is NOT a complaint about my score, my placement, or the quantity or quality of comments that I received.
It is an honest, genuine, just-cuz-I-want-to-know question.
I know subtlety does not go over well here, I've been here enough to know that, but I really didn't think the "off-center" was that subtle. I guess it was?
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02/10/2006 05:25:08 PM · #2 |
Karma, I don't think there's anything subtle here about it being off-center. It is very much off-center, no question about that.
As far as the score goes (you're gonna hate me for this), it's a solid average score, for a clean, neatly done image. What's lacking is "wow" factor.
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02/10/2006 05:25:53 PM · #3 |
Might have been just slightly too subtle for the viewers. They saw that the dice was off center and the 2-second-viewers immediately assumed that that was the focal point rather than the off-center dot.
Lee
Message edited by author 2006-02-10 17:26:14. |
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02/10/2006 05:27:46 PM · #4 |
Ursula, no hate, I completely agree.
Tranquil, that is what I was wondering. I started to frame it with the die in the dead center so that it was obvious something else was off-center, but, well, I didn't.
Message edited by author 2006-02-10 17:32:30. |
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02/10/2006 05:27:58 PM · #5 |
| haha. The punch line was to hidden. funny picture! |
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02/10/2006 05:28:50 PM · #6 |
While looking at it I was thinking, maybe a real close close-up would have worked better? To sort of hammer it in that you're talking about the pip? I don't know.
Or, I don't know how this could be done, but one where the off-center pip is in the real dice, but the reflection has it in the middle (or something like that). I don't know. Something to really bring out what you're after here.
Message edited by author 2006-02-10 17:30:31.
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02/10/2006 05:31:30 PM · #7 |
| maybe a normal one off to the other side would have lead ppls eyes to compare the two. Then they would have discovered the off center part. |
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02/10/2006 05:35:30 PM · #8 |
OK, I'm in a talkative mood :)
I think something that's hurting a lot of images lately is that we have so many entries to so many challenges. When there are that many images to look at, there's going to be a ton of images that will simply be overlooked. Nobody has the time to take a careful, detailed look at all the many, many entries. I think that's the big reason why the "catchy images" get the high scores.
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02/10/2006 05:38:08 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by ursula:
While looking at it I was thinking, maybe a real close close-up would have worked better? To sort of hammer it in that you're talking about the pip? I don't know.
Or, I don't know how this could be done, but one where the off-center pip is in the real dice, but the reflection has it in the middle (or something like that). I don't know. Something to really bring out what you're after here. |
In one of them that I edited, the reflection did sorta show two pips. With a quick hit of d/b, the die had one, and the reflection had two. Kinda figured that would run afoul of the major element thing though. Didn't think that would sit well.
A tighter crop is a good idea. And I agree that "details" get lost in the voting. It's not a complaint, just a fact of life. That can be good too, if the detail detracts somehow. |
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02/10/2006 06:10:05 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by karmat:
...I know subtlety does not go over well here... |
No, it doesn't, but the title you chose left us no great finesse but a stated intent and a clever one-trick pony. There, really, is not much to enjoy about this shot but its conceptual cleverness. This alone, I believe, is a thin nail to hang an image from. I, too, voted it low because of this.
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02/11/2006 11:52:58 AM · #11 |
| It's a clever idea, but in the end it's just a picture of a die. |
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