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 04/19/2006 08:21:40 PM · #1
I don't know why some people don't understand that just because they look at a photograph and think it DNMC due to what they perceive to be an improper location for a shot, does not make it so. I can't say much due to the challenge but all of my comments indicate that it was a good shot but scored low for DNMC due to the background confusing them.

Sometimes photographers use things called back drops and there is actually a machine that creates a virtual backdrop from a slide projected on a highly reflected screen at the time the photo is taken. Sometime a photgrapher could open the french doors to his studio and have a backdrop of trees and still never leave the building.

Not to long ago there was a pretty incredible shot of a child on a flying carpet. Does anyone really believe that the carpet was really flying??? (scalvert's Arabian Flights)

The voters ignorance of various techniques should not result in a low score.

This is just to let these people know that if I ever submit a photo with a civil war background, that I did not cheat, I am not 140 years old, I was not at the Battle of Gettysburg and maybe, just maybe my photo does meet the challege.

Sorry for the rant
 04/19/2006 08:24:51 PM · #2
well if its a "studio-like environment" it meets the challenge.
 04/19/2006 08:26:48 PM · #3
Uhm, this is a visual sight. Voters can only use their eyes to determine what's happening in an image. It stands, then, to reason that if it looks like it was taken outside, it might not be the best shot to submit for a 'studio' challenge...

That said, I agree with Bear
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Message edited by author 2006-04-19 20:30:41.
 04/19/2006 08:28:30 PM · #4
It's kind of funny, because in the real world one of the challenges of studio photography is to make it look like it is NOT a studio shot, and here in the DPC alternate universe the challenge seems to be to make a shot NOT shot in a studio look like it WAS... Oh me, Oh my! The location is more important than the result, and the appearance of a studio location is paramount!

Robt.
 04/19/2006 08:39:50 PM · #5
Ok ,i dont understand ? In some challenges some of the photographs are far ,far away from being close to the subject alltho they still get thru on the subject of creativity and imagination,now this portrait challenge has sparked a bit of SPARKLE shall we say ? Or may be is just me ?

Originally posted by Bear_Music:
It's kind of funny, because in the real world one of the challenges of studio photography is to make it look like it is NOT a studio shot, and here in the DPC alternate universe the challenge seems to be to make a shot NOT shot in a studio look like it WAS... Oh me, Oh my! The location is more important than the result, and the appearance of a studio location is paramount!

Robt.

04/19/2006 08:50:35 PM · #6
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
It's kind of funny, because in the real world one of the challenges of studio photography is to make it look like it is NOT a studio shot, and here in the DPC alternate universe the challenge seems to be to make a shot NOT shot in a studio look like it WAS... Oh me, Oh my! The location is more important than the result, and the appearance of a studio location is paramount!

Robt.


Actually this wasn't shot for the contest but happened to be a studio shot I took during the time frame, that I really liked. So it would fall into the "make it look like it was not a studio shot" category.

I guess I acheived my goal and it would be worse if my client was giving me a DNMC.

Thanks for the input
 04/20/2006 02:45:34 AM · #7
Originally posted by facesastheycome:
Ok ,i dont understand ? In some challenges some of the photographs are far ,far away from being close to the subject alltho they still get thru on the subject of creativity and imagination,now this portrait challenge has sparked a bit of SPARKLE shall we say ? Or may be is just me ?


I was being mildly sarcastic, in case it's not clear. Sometimes in our zeal to "adhere" to the challenge topic we toss the baby out with the bathwater. It appears at least some people are judging these photos on whether or not they are obviously shot in a studio, which to my mind is borderline ridiculous. Why? Because one of the "high skills" of studio photography is to recreate or emulate non-studio environments, the benefit being that you can totally control your subject lighting in the studio.

A good example of this is scalvert's work, like the magic-carpet girl.

And then, of course, it's perfectly feasible to move an entire studio outdoors; you see it all the time in the "real world", huge stacks of powerful strobes, reflectors, umbrellas, softlights, barndoors, you name it, all set up on the beach or in a meadow, whatever. I'D call this studio photography, myself...

R.

Message edited by author 2006-04-20 18:54:02.
 04/20/2006 06:52:06 PM · #8
Thank you Bear Music.

I caught the sarcasm and agree with your assessment.

I don't get to spend as much time here as I would like but I do consider you one of the Big Dogs of DPC and have grown to respect your input on the topics to which you post.

Thanks for taking the time
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