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02/06/2007 09:07:17 AM · #151 |
Originally posted by bvlindalou:
I've noticed that very few people have voted. I only have 88 votes and 155 views. Maybe everyone is waiting for some divine intervention. |
Shoot, I finally broke 5 on my score for this challenge. Let's stop the voting now!!! :D |
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02/06/2007 09:09:39 AM · #152 |
Votes: 78
Views: 122
Avg Vote: 5.1410
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0
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02/06/2007 09:42:27 AM · #153 |
Originally posted by bvlindalou:
I've noticed that very few people have voted. I only have 88 votes and 155 views. Maybe everyone is waiting for some divine intervention. |
Hopefully since the first 90 or so voters couldn't seem to give any ratings higher than 5 the next batch of voters will be more rational/kind. :-p
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02/06/2007 09:49:33 AM · #154 |
Votes: 89
Views: 136
Avg Vote: 5.7865
Comments: 2
Favorites: 0
Tough voting overnight...
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02/06/2007 09:56:16 AM · #155 |
Originally posted by bvlindalou:
I've noticed that very few people have voted. I only have 88 votes and 155 views. Maybe everyone is waiting for some divine intervention. |
yeah, my view/vote stats are very similar ... the number of votes are quite low.
i think the scores are low too ... sub 7 can win this one i think! :) LOL
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02/06/2007 10:00:29 AM · #156 |
Originally posted by super-dave:
Originally posted by bvlindalou:
I've noticed that very few people have voted. I only have 88 votes and 155 views. Maybe everyone is waiting for some divine intervention. |
yeah, my view/vote stats are very similar ... the number of votes are quite low.
i think the scores are low too ... sub 7 can win this one i think! :) LOL |
sub 7 can win this one
is that you???? |
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02/06/2007 10:03:56 AM · #157 |
Originally posted by bvlindalou:
sub 7 can win this one
is that you???? |
um ... yeah, i'm below 7 ... just like everyone else.
looking through this thread, nobody's posted scores above 7 ... dunno if that's cause they're hiding or if it's because there's nobody with scores that high.
voting seems really low all round.
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02/06/2007 10:06:43 AM · #158 |
Well as an ex-Senior School English teacher, I am really finding myself challenged in this challenge: I had it all figured out. Personification is to make a "thing" person-like...best examples given to my classes from Wordsworth's "Daffodils" ("...dancing in the breeze")...also characters from Beatrix Potter: animals given human qualities. What about the moon being spoken of as "she" with feminine serenity, calm,guile etc . There is a fine line between metaphor and personification.
I know that just because the "thing" has an apparent face in it, doesn't make it Person-i-fied (my entry is largely a thing with a face in it). But my entry is a thing, with a certain patina and ethic about it, given a GREAT title, which makes it an animated, living, person-type creature...it has life if you look hard enough.
I think we've all gone off at tangents and in this challenge it's been a very subjective process both for photographers and voters...somehow more so than usual? In assessing the entries, maybe we should have all been forewarned to put on our Poet caps to be a bit more forgiving...?
Having said that, there are at 10 submissions that really are fantastic!!
Message edited by author 2007-02-06 10:07:32. |
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02/06/2007 10:09:45 AM · #159 |
Originally posted by Judi:
Ice cream and Baileys please...oh and a cherry on top. |
Ooooooh. Baileys. One of my Chanukah presents from my wife. Yummmmm. Cherries are good, too. :)
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02/06/2007 10:10:46 AM · #160 |
Originally posted by faery:
Well as an ex-Senior School English teacher, I am really finding myself challenged in this challenge: I had it all figured out. Personification is to make a "thing" person-like...best examples given to my classes from Wordsworth's "Daffodils" ("...dancing in the breeze")...also characters from Beatrix Potter: animals given human qualities. What about the moon being spoken of as "she" with feminine serenity, calm,guile etc . There is a fine line between metaphor and personification.
I know that just because the "thing" has an apparent face in it, doesn't make it Person-i-fied (my entry is largely a thing with a face in it). But my entry is a thing, with a certain patina and ethic about it, given a GREAT title, which makes it an animated, living, person-type creature...it has life if you look hard enough.
I think we've all gone off at tangents and in this challenge it's been a very subjective process both for photographers and voters...somehow more so than usual? In assessing the entries, maybe we should have all been forewarned to put on our Poet caps to be a bit more forgiving...?
Having said that, there are at 10 submissions that really are fantastic!! |
I'm sure one of them must be mine. ;) |
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02/06/2007 10:19:59 AM · #161 |
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Views: 150
Avg Vote: 5.9263
Comments: 7
Never seen this kind of drop so fast. Not my worst, though.
Seems odd to me that really great photographers here have such low scores. I don't get it. I looked through the photos and almost none of are worthy of 3's or 4's IMHO. |
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02/06/2007 10:28:38 AM · #162 |
I am voting on the photo and I'm voting with my conscience. I'm not simply being reactionary or trying to compensate for the presumed agendas of other voters.
Dang I sure hope that's what other people are doing too! |
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02/06/2007 10:37:42 AM · #163 |
| I've got a 3.5 on my score. Lone commenter doesn't like subject, but said nothing bad about technical stuff,so I see that as good. kinda. :-) |
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02/06/2007 10:40:27 AM · #164 |
I'm sub 4 also...and my lone comment states that it is a great photo, but my object was created by someone else....so i'm assuming I'm getting DNMC votes.
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02/06/2007 10:44:14 AM · #165 |
but most of our objects in this challenge WERE created by somebody else - so what's their point?!
and to add insult to injury my score just dropped....f***** trolls....
Message edited by author 2007-02-06 10:44:53. |
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02/06/2007 10:48:47 AM · #166 |
Originally posted by albc28:
I'm sub 4 also...and my lone comment states that it is a great photo, but my object was created by someone else....so i'm assuming I'm getting DNMC votes. |
that's an odd comment ... 90% of the entries would have been created by someone else ... wine openers, ear buds, dolls and toys!!
i wouldn't worry about that comment, that's just a silly thing to say!
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02/06/2007 10:49:40 AM · #167 |
I hope I'm not jinxing anything now, but my score just climbed a tiny bit...keep it up...*crosses fingers*
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02/06/2007 10:54:20 AM · #168 |
Originally posted by super-dave:
Originally posted by albc28:
I'm sub 4 also...and my lone comment states that it is a great photo, but my object was created by someone else....so i'm assuming I'm getting DNMC votes. |
that's an odd comment ... 90% of the entries would have been created by someone else ... wine openers, ear buds, dolls and toys!!
i wouldn't worry about that comment, that's just a silly thing to say! |
No way I'm calling that comment silly, I'm going to assume that's what everyone is thinking!!! Although it bothers me a lil', I'd rather believe that, than my photo being that bad technically. |
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02/06/2007 10:58:23 AM · #169 |
| hear hear, nobody bitchin' yet about the editing or tech, just the subject. |
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02/06/2007 11:00:38 AM · #170 |
Originally posted by albc28:
No way I'm calling that comment silly, I'm going to assume that's what everyone is thinking!!! Although it bothers me a lil', I'd rather believe that, than my photo being that bad technically. |
i agree, it's better to have chosen a bad subject, than to have taken a bad photograph.
but i don't see the point of the comment. unless you shoot food or trees, then of course your entry was created by someone else ... by silly, i mean it is an unreasonable criticism.
:)
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02/06/2007 11:02:25 AM · #171 |
Originally posted by Puckzzz:
I hope I'm not jinxing anything now, but my score just climbed a tiny bit...keep it up...*crosses fingers* |
should've kept my mouth shut :X
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02/06/2007 11:15:45 AM · #172 |
Votes: 89
Views: 151
Avg Vote: 87654 (not necessarily in that order)
Comments: 1
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
I have a straight, I win. |
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02/06/2007 11:23:18 AM · #173 |
Realizing everyone has different voting criteria and methodology, to me if a photo is 1) on theme and B) technically sound (if not outstanding) it gets a 5 by default. Technical shortcomings and/or lack of applicability take the score down.
Biased as I might be, I believe my shot is both on topic and technically sound ... yet it's received it's fair share of 3s and 4s. Maddening.
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02/06/2007 11:29:11 AM · #174 |
| OK, I will comment on everyone!!...who's in with me??? |
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02/06/2007 12:03:46 PM · #175 |
Originally posted by Rob O:
Realizing everyone has different voting criteria and methodology, to me if a photo is 1) on theme and B) technically sound (if not outstanding) it gets a 5 by default. Technical shortcomings and/or lack of applicability take the score down.
Biased as I might be, I believe my shot is both on topic and technically sound ... yet it's received it's fair share of 3s and 4s. Maddening. |
Ditto for me. My baseline is 5. It goes up/down from there, though I rarely give 4s or less and if I do I say why! |
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