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08/26/2006 11:05:02 PM · #1 |
I just think that maybe the voting has been a bit strange. This is not a dig on the photos that have won lately, I liked them and scored them all very well. Any thoughts? I have not entered in a couple weeks and was just surprised by the final tally.
I repeat! I am not bashing any of the winners at all! |
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08/26/2006 11:09:25 PM · #2 |
i think i know what you mean. while i love the current winners, i think the "style" of the winners has changed, perhaps from "pretty picture" to something else
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08/26/2006 11:15:28 PM · #3 |
Maybe that is it. I can't put my finger on how I feel exactly about them. I know that on the home page there is only 1 image I would ever think about hanging on my wall. I wonder if others have that same feeling.
Message edited by author 2006-08-26 23:16:42. |
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08/26/2006 11:20:27 PM · #4 |
for example, look at this challenge compared to one on the homepage now. There is definetly a different feel. I really can't say which i like better, though.
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08/26/2006 11:24:38 PM · #5 |
| It has a lot to do with the challenge subject... |
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08/26/2006 11:26:46 PM · #6 |
I do understand what you mean. Nothing against the winners, but there are only 3 on the home page I would have given a 9 or 10. They still are possibly the best in each challenge, but if were put up in a Free Study, they might not do as well, KWIM?
What I think it is, is the challenges have been difficult to shoot with creativity.
Fire, Peas, and Camera Self Portrait all lend itself to many unoriginal entries. 'Stupid' is just a hard subject because you really have to tell a story with the picture.
Just my 2 cents :)
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08/26/2006 11:29:16 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by focuspoint:
It has a lot to do with the challenge subject... |
My thinking exactly! You need to look at the challenge subject(s) and given the links posted above you are comparing two challenges that have a completely different set of parameters not to mention limitations set by the challenge description. The 'style' of you will can/will be/influenced by what the challenge subject is. With the example posted I really think it is comparing apples to oranges. |
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08/26/2006 11:30:12 PM · #8 |
voters get what they want ...
personal opinion matters only 1/200 or so ;)
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08/26/2006 11:35:02 PM · #9 |
The free study is going to have some nice images. It would be hard to pick which one would win in that group I bet.
I don't know I just don't like the home page right now. |
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08/26/2006 11:46:00 PM · #10 |
Are you saying we should take some votes away from someone? Who determines which votes they didn't deserve? Certainly we'd have to all take a vote on that....
Message edited by author 2006-08-26 23:46:17.
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08/26/2006 11:51:31 PM · #11 |
| nope, not saying that at all. I gave decent marks to each of these. Just not 10's. Nothing can be done about it, and I am not calling it foul play, it just seems strange. |
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08/26/2006 11:53:20 PM · #12 |
| I think the fire winners are spectacular. The other winners certainly deserve their ribbons for being the best in very difficult challenges. |
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08/26/2006 11:56:16 PM · #13 |
i think they are just good in a different way... like "artsy" while the fire winners or the beatles winners are "showy"...
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08/27/2006 12:03:00 AM · #14 |
My 10s never get ribbons. I only wish that what you're worried about were really happening.
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08/27/2006 12:16:11 AM · #15 |
Don't mistake winning photos at DP Challenge as anything other than "Winning Photos at DP Challenge".
That is what they are, that is what they should be.
It might mean they are pretty, it might mean they are not. It might mean they are weird, it might mean they are boring. It might mean they are a little of all of the above.
The photos represent the voters and how THEY perceive the challenge more than how individual phtographers visualized the challenge.
Isn't it ironic in an interesting way? The challenge is given to us as photographers but it's really the voters that take the challenge and tell us (the photographer) what the vision is.
It's weird because if you go to photo exhibitions the work you see there is representative of the artist or the gallery and the public has to just take it in. Here, the final gallery (front page) is what the public is asying to the photographers and the photographer has to just take it in! :-) |
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08/29/2006 02:58:19 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by hokie:
Don't mistake winning photos at DP Challenge as anything other than "Winning Photos at DP Challenge".
That is what they are, that is what they should be.
It might mean they are pretty, it might mean they are not. It might mean they are weird, it might mean they are boring. It might mean they are a little of all of the above.
The photos represent the voters and how THEY perceive the challenge more than how individual phtographers visualized the challenge.
Isn't it ironic in an interesting way? The challenge is given to us as photographers but it's really the voters that take the challenge and tell us (the photographer) what the vision is.
It's weird because if you go to photo exhibitions the work you see there is representative of the artist or the gallery and the public has to just take it in. Here, the final gallery (front page) is what the public is asying to the photographers and the photographer has to just take it in! :-) |
Well put!!!! |
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08/29/2006 03:25:19 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by hokie:
It's weird because if you go to photo exhibitions the work you see there is representative of the artist or the gallery and the public has to just take it in. Here, the final gallery (front page) is what the public is asying to the photographers and the photographer has to just take it in! :-) |
A most enlightened view Hokie :) |
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08/29/2006 03:28:50 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by boomtap:
I just think that maybe the voting has been a bit strange. This is not a dig on the photos that have won lately, I liked them and scored them all very well. Any thoughts? I have not entered in a couple weeks and was just surprised by the final tally.
I repeat! I am not bashing any of the winners at all! |
I know what you're saying. When viewing as thumbnails especially, the front page actually has a lot less "pop" than it usually does. I wouldn't have expected a lot of dazzle from "camera self portrait" and "stupid", so that's no surprise; but I'd have though "magic & mystery" was ripe for spectacle and we don't see that on the front page...
Still, it's what the voters wanted, right?
R.
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08/29/2006 03:31:40 PM · #19 |
| I definately have noticed that the winners are of a different style at least then the winners i saw a few months ago. i noticed it first around the time i ribboned. I cant believe I did. My photos was much different than the photos that had been ribboning before that. It does seem to me to be a slight trend away from serene photos which is good for me as mine are rarely all that serene. but I do see how it could be realted to the challenge topics as well. |
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08/29/2006 03:34:31 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by hokie:
It's weird because if you go to photo exhibitions the work you see there is representative of the artist or the gallery and the public has to just take it in. Here, the final gallery (front page) is what the public is asying to the photographers and the photographer has to just take it in! :-) |
How are the two venues described comparible? One is a showing and the other is a contest.
If you took the winning images on the front page and displayed them in a gallery, then you would be displaying something representative of the artist at that point.
Hmmm...I guess you have all the visitors to the gallery cast votes (score) on the images presented and display the top 3 at the end of the week as the gallery ribbon winners.
Perhaps you weren't making a comparison - just an observation. If so, please excuse my ramblings...it was fun to think about. ;^) |
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08/29/2006 03:40:04 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Originally posted by hokie:
It's weird because if you go to photo exhibitions the work you see there is representative of the artist or the gallery and the public has to just take it in. Here, the final gallery (front page) is what the public is asying to the photographers and the photographer has to just take it in! :-) |
How are the two venues described comparible? ........
Perhaps you weren't making a comparison - just an observation. If so, please excuse my ramblings...it was fun to think about. ;^) |
I took it as an observation :-) |
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08/29/2006 03:46:15 PM · #22 |
BTW, I find the title of this thread misleading, perhaps to the degree it ought to be changed...
It SOUNDS like the OP is saying the current winners are not deserving of the honor, and that's apparently not his intention.
Perhaps "Is the "winning style" changing in DPC?"
R.
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08/29/2006 04:09:17 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
BTW, I find the title of this thread misleading, perhaps to the degree it ought to be changed...
It SOUNDS like the OP is saying the current winners are not deserving of the honor, and that's apparently not his intention.
Perhaps "Is the "winning style" changing in DPC?"
R. |
I agree about the title. I was annoyed before I opened it up.
I for one notice some huge. Similarities from the winners of all the challenges since the begining. They don't include me:) |
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08/29/2006 04:41:32 PM · #24 |
Perhaps voters are getting a bit less superficial... who knows?
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08/29/2006 04:50:58 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by boomtap:
Maybe that is it. I can't put my finger on how I feel exactly about them. I know that on the home page there is only 1 image I would ever think about hanging on my wall. I wonder if others have that same feeling. |
Lately, when I see that "hanging on my wall" phrase, I'm bothered by it.
Where is it written that it has to be something you'd hang on your wall?
Why can't it be the winner best represented the challenge description and displayed excellent photography skill....and pp skill...if we must...lol. I certainly hope that dpc is evolving again. poo poo on eye candy. ;) |
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