"Abstract Macro" Results Recalculated

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

04/09/2006 10:44:17 AM · #1

The results of Abstract Macro (Challenge 471) have been recalculated due to a disqualification. The entry previously ranked in 407th place was disqualified for spot editing.

kenskid

Nikon D700

04/09/2006 11:15:31 AM · #2

I'm just wondering...why it takes so long to DQ a photo. Does the SC go through each photo in a challenge or just randomly pick a few to check out?

KS

04/09/2006 11:36:07 AM · #3

Originally posted by kenskid:

I'm just wondering...why it takes so long to DQ a photo. Does the SC go through each photo in a challenge or just randomly pick a few to check out?

KS

The process starts when a DQ request is made by a user. If a request is made the last day of the challenge, we have to vote on whether to request proof. Once the proof request is made, the photographer is given 48 hours to submit their proof. At that point, we then vote on the image, which is usually completed in 48 hours but in some cases can take longer.

If a request is made the last day of a challenge, it's not unusual at all for the decision to come several days after the challenge closes.

~Terry

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

04/09/2006 11:44:54 AM · #4

Please note that the entry previously in 105th place has also been disqualified for literal representation of a work of art.

fotodude

Nikon D70

04/09/2006 12:12:04 PM · #5

Originally posted by ClubJuggle:

Please note that the entry previously in 105th place has also been disqualified for literal representation of a work of art.

tell me if i'm wrong but i remember a hand print photo that as DQed while another one was left in the challenge because it was done in a a way that brought depth and something new, different, and "photographic" to the other wise considered "art work".

now i havn't seen the origional for the 105 placed entry but it strikes me that is is very photographic in nature and not just a "literal representation". it is a rather striking close up in B&W (which i don't believe was how it looked originaly) and it has a different feel to it, for what someone would normaly see a "street tag" as...the photographer here (IMO) did not make just a literal rep. but went beyond that and brought in a sence of texture light and form that the art (may or may not have had)....i think the SC messed up it shouldn't IMHO have been dqed just because it was taken from front on....it is very photographic in nature.

and in fact i have seen many fine student PHOTOGRAPHS very simular to it hanging at the collage galleries in DTC.

i may be wrong about it like i said i have not seen the origional but it think that it is unfair to DQ an image such as this because photography can be talked of as sharing things that we see in a different mannor from how ones eye would see them or in the same... now then the photographer here has made the choice of B&W they have shot it is an abstract close up...and they have shot it from front on...they meet the challenge, and all there choices are perfectly fine ones from a photographic sence...so why the DQ? am i missing something or does this not fit the definition of a close up, or croped photograph....its not a picture of the Mona Lisa taken from point blank range to crop just with in the frame and make a record reproduction in photo form...its a thought out image.

and IMHO does not deserve the DQ. unless there is something that i have no knowloge of involved that clearly sets it as a DQ in plan sight to all.

i think it should be reconsidered.....

_bran(just had my wisdom teeth pulled so i've had time to think about this, i'll go back to not carring soon)do_