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10/19/2003 08:17:04 PM · #1 |
Ever have a photo that you just know, a some of voters just aren't going to understand how it meets the challenge and yet you know it does?
I didn't go out and get fancy with the lighting for the lighting challenge. I took a very traditional style photo, used traditional lighting took my photo but I am sure already I am going to see the this doesn't meet the challenge comments and it already annoys me, just knowing that the comments aren't shown with the photo. Sometimes those photos that don't appear to meet a challenge actually do if you could just read the comments. Oh well I'm prepared for them, I expect them, and all I can say is at least I know already where they will come from.
I also know starting with this challenge I am not going to take points off when I don't think something meets the challenge while voting. I know I may not think the way you do and that little difference in how we think can mean the difference in meeting or not meeting the challenge. |
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10/19/2003 08:49:18 PM · #2 |
"Challenge Details: Make use of light to really set the mood tone of your photograph."
Well Ms. Sin, most voters take the challenge topic seriously, others do not. I'll be betting if the use of light is not what obviously sets the mood of your photo you will get many more 1's thru 4's than 7-10's. A lot more. And you will be thinking ... "the *&%#***##*'s just don't get it" as you said.."and it already annoys me,"
Enjoy your photo. I'm sure you like it and it most likely is very nice.
However, there is a lot of difference in clearly meeting a topic challenge and meeting it in one's own mind. |
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10/19/2003 09:23:42 PM · #3 |
So if you know it is only really tenuously that it meets the challenge, why enter it ? I mean, feel free to submit and all that - I'm not suggesting you shouldn't. But it is pretty obvious that the more on topic an entry is, the better they tend to do.
Its a challenge - you can be completely off topic, vaguely in the right area or totally nail it, epitomising the challenge topic - is it a surprise which one does better ? Do you think it shouldn't ? |
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10/20/2003 12:40:59 PM · #4 |
So how's that working out for you ?
I briefly toyed with the idea of only voting on how well an image meets the challenge and completely ignoring any other factors - but somehow that seems as silly as assuming everything meets the challenge and ignoring that too.
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10/20/2003 12:50:15 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
I briefly toyed with the idea of only voting on how well an image meets the challenge and completely ignoring any other factors... |
So that would make it a challenge challenge. lol
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10/21/2003 11:39:07 AM · #6 |
I think it boils down to 'how well can you photograph a subject that is generally accepted by others as meeting the challenge'.
I think most people immediately get an image(s)in their head when a challenge is announced. Those types of images tend to do better, I think. Going outside the norm may still meet the challenge, but you run the risk of losing some of your audience. |
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