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 04/13/2007 05:22:21 AM · #126
Man I am taking my daughter to the zoo this weekend...Can we just confirm, is an elephant an insect ;-)

Seriously, I have already taken and submitted a shot for this challenge, not sure how it is going to do score wise as I have no doubt some of you chaps with great lenses are going to produce stuff that beats my effort into submission, but I guess the bottom line is that I LOVE the shot I have taken, so regardless how it scores I am very happy.

I guess the other thing is I have only been active on the site for about seven weeks and I feel I have learnt more in that time than I could have imagined. When I look at my first submissions compared to my later ones I can genuinely see (what I think is) a positive change. For that I can only thank anyone who has commented on a shot I have submitted, the people who write the tutorials and also those of you who take the sort of shots that leave me slack jawed in admiration...and who also explain how they came up with their images so again I discover some of the tricks of the trade

Jon
 04/13/2007 09:17:30 AM · #127
Just to be the biggest nerd...centipedes and millipedes are not insects either.

Personally I would not cut any points on a pic if they had a spider or centipede or millipede in it.
 04/13/2007 06:46:30 PM · #128
Well, i would hold off for a different challenge, but if i keep waiting for the perfect challenge, and the perfect photo, i will never submit a photo... and i would prefer to submit some stuff with low ratings than never submit anything at all... so when you see my image... (the most beautiful one of all...) be kind. Ha...

Good luck to everyone,

and... Happy Friday the 13th.
 04/13/2007 06:53:56 PM · #129
I'm in. I wanted to try some old equipment my Dad handed down to me - he had a lens inverter - so I took my small MF primes and went to work. Not the best photos ever, but since it is memory of dear ol Dad, I am entering...
 04/13/2007 09:28:10 PM · #130
OOOOOOOO!!!!!! I have the power of 1, the mighty DNMTC, the ultimate ego trip to rip my unseen friends apart, bruise their confidence and step all over them. I am the ONE who can play the game, no fear no shame, it is my game.

Translated into English, you will get(score) what you get, not what you deserve.

Poor spiders, woodies, rubber ducks, small insects, big insects, plastic insects, clay insects, soft toys, hard toys, out-of-the-box-whatevers, nudes.... beware! If I do not see a Thor-Ax, Abdo-Men or some one giving Head, you will get my 111111111111!

I love DPC! ;-)
 04/14/2007 12:12:14 AM · #131
Well, we went to the Bug Zoo.
I was thinking, though, that "insects" was the expert editing, not the minimal, so was working with that in mind, so nothing usable :(

But I DID get to hold a giant millipede and a tarantula and a scorpion and various stick insects, so I be a happy camper! :D
 04/14/2007 06:55:14 AM · #132
I managed to scrape together the required funds and am now a member.

:)

Already have a shot to enter...
 04/14/2007 07:53:53 AM · #133
Originally posted by BeeCee:
Well, we went to the Bug Zoo.
I was thinking, though, that "insects" was the expert editing, not the minimal, so was working with that in mind, so nothing usable :(

But I DID get to hold a giant millipede and a tarantula and a scorpion and various stick insects, so I be a happy camper! :D


Um, EWWWW. Photographing bugs is one thing; touching them (or their close cousins) is another thing altogether :::shudder:::

I am *such* a girl sometimes ;-)
 04/14/2007 07:55:26 AM · #134
Originally posted by Raziel:
I managed to scrape together the required funds and am now a member.

:)

Already have a shot to enter...


Congratulations. Welcome. I can't help wondering, after seeing your profile picture: Did you have to sell your soul to come up with the subscription? (It's ok, you'll not be alone here).
 04/14/2007 11:49:21 AM · #135
Originally posted by MaryO:
Originally posted by BeeCee:
Well, we went to the Bug Zoo.
I was thinking, though, that "insects" was the expert editing, not the minimal, so was working with that in mind, so nothing usable :(

But I DID get to hold a giant millipede and a tarantula and a scorpion and various stick insects, so I be a happy camper! :D


Um, EWWWW. Photographing bugs is one thing; touching them (or their close cousins) is another thing altogether :::shudder:::

I am *such* a girl sometimes ;-)


I'm never a girl :D
 04/14/2007 12:49:15 PM · #136
Originally posted by BeeCee:
Originally posted by MaryO:
Originally posted by BeeCee:
... But I DID get to hold a giant millipede and a tarantula and a scorpion and various stick insects, so I be a happy camper! :D

OK... I gotta know...

How many of you voters out there would really lower the score of a "good" picture of a millipede, tarantula, scorpion, spider or any other "bug" that does not have 6 legs, exoskeleton and three segmented body for DNMC?
 04/14/2007 12:53:24 PM · #137
If it looks like a bug, it works for me!
04/14/2007 12:55:22 PM · #138
Originally posted by idnic:
If it looks like a bug, it works for me!


Yeah if I would squish it if I saw it in my house it is a bug/insect!

:-P
 04/14/2007 12:56:11 PM · #139
i won't be a literalist for this... a spider, millipede, and a vw beetle are all ok for me.

would this be a dnmc?
04/14/2007 12:59:45 PM · #140
Originally posted by asimchoudhri:
i won't be a literalist for this... a spider, millipede, and a vw beetle are all ok for me.

would this be a dnmc?

Man. Don't post it here. Save it for the challenge!!!!

Delete delete delete
 04/14/2007 01:08:42 PM · #141
Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:
Originally posted by idnic:
If it looks like a bug, it works for me!


Yeah if I would squish it if I saw it in my house it is a bug/insect!

:-P


I like that definition!

Little story: when my first two kids were born I lived in an apartment ... with cockroaches. Lots of them. I tried various things to eliminate them without poisoning the humans but invariably one would wander out in plain sight a few times each week and either my husband or I would rush to kill it so it couldn't propagate. Then we moved to a townhouse with a little yard, and every time my oldest (then 2.5) saw a bug she'd yell "BUG!" and stomp on it. All her life experiences told her bugs were to be killed :::giggle::: It took me months to convince her that bugs were allowed to live outside LOL. By the time she was 5 and the cicadas came out in force she was comfortable enough to "wear" live ones all over herself as jewelry. I'd have to make her remove them each day before she could get in the car after preschool. Guess I succeeded in getting her to be more accepting of what nature has to offer ;-)
 04/14/2007 01:11:20 PM · #142
Originally posted by idnic:
If it looks like a bug, it works for me!

This is one opinion... are there differing views? :)
 04/14/2007 01:15:51 PM · #143
Originally posted by fir3bird:
Originally posted by asimchoudhri:
i won't be a literalist for this... a spider, millipede, and a vw beetle are all ok for me.

would this be a dnmc?

Man. Don't post it here. Save it for the challenge!!!!

Delete delete delete

that was from last halloween... i wasn't really going to enter it (and i wasn't going to reshoot)
 04/14/2007 01:33:40 PM · #144
I just laughed at myself... Ha, i did it again... for some reason i read TMNT, instead of DNMC.... i would love to get a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle... Ha, off topic, but it totally made me fall over in laughter as i wait for my camera to charge.... damn 6 hour charge time.
 04/14/2007 02:00:09 PM · #145
Originally posted by asimchoudhri:
i won't be a literalist for this... a spider, millipede, and a vw beetle are all ok for me.

would this be a dnmc?

Quite frankly, as far as DNMC goes this would not bother me in the slightest, but I'm thinking there are voters who would be bothered by it and would though few have commented in this discussion so far. I could be wrong, though.
 04/14/2007 02:04:28 PM · #146
Originally posted by stdavidson:
Quite frankly, as far as DNMC goes this would not bother me in the slightest, but I'm thinking there are voters who would be bothered by it and would though few have commented in this discussion so far. I could be wrong, though.

i agree... i personally wouldn't vote-down a spider image, but i also wouldn't submit one myself because i fear it would get hit hard. same goes for other variations of "not quite exactly an insect" as have been mentioned
 04/14/2007 02:17:47 PM · #147
Originally posted by asimchoudhri:
Originally posted by stdavidson:
Quite frankly, as far as DNMC goes this would not bother me in the slightest, but I'm thinking there are voters who would be bothered by it and would though few have commented in this discussion so far. I could be wrong, though.

i agree... i personally wouldn't vote-down a spider image, but i also wouldn't submit one myself because i fear it would get hit hard. same goes for other variations of "not quite exactly an insect" as have been mentioned


I also won't vote down a spider (will give bonus points to a spider eating an insect), but my submission is definitely a real insect.
 04/14/2007 02:20:43 PM · #148
People have to realize when some of us speak of "hit hard" it doesn't take that many people to drop a score. Even 5 extra votes of 2 will drop a 6.0000 score to 5.92. That tenth probably represents 10-20 places in a small challenge.

I've gotten away from giving 1s much at all anymore, but I'll probably drop non-insect entries by a point or two.
 04/14/2007 02:24:18 PM · #149
I won't take this challenge too seriously in terms of what is and isn't an "insect".....anything insect or bug-like will work for me.
 04/14/2007 02:25:52 PM · #150
So far, the DNMCers have not expressed their views.

Here is a theory...

We always question when we see a "good" image that gets one or more "1" votes. We normally attribute that to the mythological "troll". Perhaps it is just the occasional DNMCer that feels philosophically obligated to give a low score, or someone who just plain does not like the subject matter for one reason or another that few of the rest of us would agree with.

These issues transcend the concerns of photography where a "good" picture, whatever THAT might be, deserves a "good" score.
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