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09/01/2006 09:54:48 AM · #1 |
Well, I had a smack-the-forehead-DOH! moment this morning. I entered a photo taken at an emotional time with a feeling that there was something not quite right about it, but still felt it was a good photo.
My very first comment caused me to smack my head and grimace. I made a fundamental and very SIMPLE error with a heavy impact and utterly frustrated myself. I looked at this photo for nearly the entire month, and it never caught me - and all because of an emotional attachment to the photo and the day it was taken.
So, I'm looking for more examples so I can learn from this experience since I do this a lot it seems... anyone else out there have photos that they fell in love with because of an emotional attachment that have errors seen by everyone but you?
So, here are some others from my portfolio...
 - I LOVED this shot, but totally missed the fact that the low contrast took away the "old" details completely and gave the photo a fresh clean look, when it really needed that dusty feel...
 - Magical day poking around an abandoned warehouse. Loved the texture AND TOTALLY MISSED that my horizon was tilted until a comment pointed it out. DOH!
 This one was murdered entirely by emotional attachment. The print of this photo is really awesome... but I devastated it on a laptop and submitted it anyway because it was taken on my honeymoon and I loved the original. I killed it in trying to preserve the majesty of the 20x30 print in a 4x6 space. I wish I could take this one away! That green sky? I have no idea why I thought that was ok and didnt even see it until someone commented! LOL
Ok, show yours and tell me what the voters saw that you didn't!
Jenn
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09/01/2006 09:55:17 AM · #2 |
Dangit
SC, can you fix my title spelling.... Sorry. :( it should read:
Emotional Attachment and clouded judgment. ARG.
edit add:
THANK YOU!!! xoxoxoxox
Message edited by author 2006-09-01 10:01:54. |
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09/01/2006 10:08:38 AM · #3 |
| well i cant show it yet but I'm in the same position with the "tilted horizon" i never notice right now in free study. |
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09/01/2006 10:13:57 AM · #4 |
so, i started out with identifiable images of my parents' crematory urns (they both died last year), and got closer and closer, more and more abstract. it made perfect sense to me, and i got carried away with seeing one urn seemingly embrace the other.
oddly enough, no-one (or maybe one other person) got it ;-p. oops.
now i try to run them past my husband for an objective view before submitting.
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09/01/2006 10:15:26 AM · #5 |
here are a couple  this isnt it. I eventually DID notice and took a new shot. this one. but originally i worked on a shot just like this except the outlets had child safety plugs in them and I didnt know if people would call "DNMC" because there was more than just the bag in the room so I had to remove them and do it again. and this one  i was so excited to get an environmental portrait because i had been so scared/shy to ask anyone for a pic that i was stoked to get this. never noticed maybe she looked a little freaked out. i still think its more proud she was asked for her pic but who knows. some commenters think its fear. lol. hope i didnt scare her. i only took two pics since she was in the middle of lunch rush. |
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09/01/2006 04:46:40 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by jaded_youth:
and this one |
I dont think she looks scared, I was thinking amused. LOL You should still be really proud of that one, asking people for a photo is brutal. :)
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09/01/2006 04:48:29 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by notesinstones:
Originally posted by jaded_youth:
and this one |
I dont think she looks scared, I was thinking amused. LOL You should still be really proud of that one, asking people for a photo is brutal. :) |
I was freaking out so bad all through lunch that my husband asked. (hangs my head in shame) i'm painfully shy. id die of thirst before i asked for water at a strangers house kinda shy. |
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09/01/2006 05:05:40 PM · #8 |
| I have just done this with a current challenge entry, but I managed a double doh! I submitted an image because of emotional attachment. Then I noticed that the editing and technicals were rubbish! Fortunately voting hadn’t started so I switched it for a much better one. Then 30 seconds before submission deadline I looked at the one I had removed, loved it for the emotional attachment, totally forgetting about its many flaws and put it back again. Guess what – it is getting slated for rubbish editing and technical details! Doh, doh! |
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09/01/2006 06:08:48 PM · #9 |
Oh, yeah, no doubt about it.
This one, where I was struck by the repeating patterns of the swimming pool's tiles and this guy's underwear. Over and over again. A dead end. The voters said, nope, not a dead end.
This one, because the horses looked so fresh at the end of a 50 mile competition in high summer heat, as if they hadn't gone anywhere. Mirrored rider looks, mirrored horse looks. Shouldn't have entered it in a free study! Wrecked my free study batting average.
This one, it was emotional feelings about my young horse, and she looked sooo beautiful to me. I added grain to achieve a soft focus effect, and voters straightened me out. Not so beautiful in a challenge about "Beauty".
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09/01/2006 06:12:37 PM · #10 |
love the girl, totally missed the stray teal-coloured blanket in front.
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