Team Suck Clubhouse - New Quarters

04/24/2007 11:59:25 PM · #851

Congrats, Catherine! And Team Suckers, don't forget if you get a new Personal Best (PB), please do toot your own horn. There's also a thread somewhere for such things. I'm in thirds. It's not going to please the "it MUST have a subject on the crosshairs of the thirds lines!" crowd, but it does meet the rule of thirds.... We shall see.

meyers

Canon EOS-6D

04/25/2007 12:05:49 AM · #852

Challenge Results for Hair and Landscape 3 are up in the other thread. If your picture is missing, please PM me.

posthumous

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

04/25/2007 12:13:23 AM · #853

The torrent of ribbons has begun for

silverfoxx. Congratulations!

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III

04/25/2007 12:15:06 AM · #854

Congrats, Svetlana!!

colorcarnival

Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital

04/25/2007 12:17:00 AM · #855

Congrats Svetlana - I loved that pic. Very beautiful!

ursula

Fujifilm X-T2

Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS

04/25/2007 12:19:28 AM · #856

You guys have a visitor, me :)

Just popping in to say CONGRATULATIONS SVETLANA! What beautiful work! I'm in awe.

levyj413

Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

04/25/2007 12:29:11 AM · #857

Svetlana, you're on your way, as if the other numerous accolades outside DPC hadn't already proven your talent. :)

Wildcard

Canon EOS-20D

Tamron AF 55-200mm F4-5.6 LD Di-II for Canon

04/25/2007 12:29:58 AM · #858

Wooo Hoo I've got the Moet (it's ok I put it on Poshumous tab) grab a glass to toast Svetlana, yes you to Ursuala just throw those Photoshop for Dummies books on the floor and have a seat.

Cheers Svetlana you are such an inspiration and a true artist.

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens

04/25/2007 12:36:01 AM · #859

Is there an award for Permanent Lapse of Suckiness. We better get one ready for Svetlana!!!

skewsme

Canon EOS-6D

04/25/2007 12:38:43 AM · #860

Originally posted by JuliBoc:

Is there an award for Permanent Lapse of Suckiness. We better get one ready for Svetlana!!!

perhaps a headless lolly :)

congratulations, silverfoxx!

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS

04/25/2007 12:39:09 AM · #861

Oh, and you better start working on a Suckiest Sucker award for this.

Rule of Thirds III
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ursula

Fujifilm X-T2

04/25/2007 12:39:25 AM · #862

Yeah, Svetlana ... can I take classes? I really am impressed. That's one beautiful image.

Sooo ... you guys here at the suck club, you actually learn how to do this kind of stuff? I'm thinking I might hang out (incognito) to learn. (I'm serious)

Wildcard

Canon EOS-20D

Tamron AF 55-200mm F4-5.6 LD Di-II for Canon

04/25/2007 12:47:00 AM · #863

Ursula you're always welcome no need to be incognito around here, we don't bite you know. Just excuse the mess we're too busy taking sucky photographs to tidy up much.

I think Svetlana is a great example of of what it means to truly suck. She has her own style and shoots what she loves with little if any regard to the voters. She just happens to have a little more style than the rest of us most day it's nice to see it rewarded.

ursula

Fujifilm X-T2

Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS

04/25/2007 12:50:40 AM · #864

So that's what this is all about. Jeffrey had mentioned something like that before, but I didn't put two and two together - what you guys are doing is "doing your own thing". Wow. And learning from each other. It's a great concept.

Are all of you part of WPL teams? Or is this separate from WPL?

Wildcard

Canon EOS-20D

Tamron AF 55-200mm F4-5.6 LD Di-II for Canon

04/25/2007 12:56:39 AM · #865

It's separate from WPL but some of us are on WPL teams, not me I am too randomly sucky. If you check out the first post in this thread our fearless leader explains the Team Suck ethic pretty well. Basically it's about supporting and learning from each other, commiserating and cheering and mostly finding value in our photographs beyond just the score. It's a very safe place to be for those of us that like to experiment or see the world in our own unique way, here that sort of thing is appreciated.

04/25/2007 01:03:58 AM · #866

My congrats to al who did well in Landscape.

My particular congrats to the absolutely *stunning* offering from Melethia!

I'm........8>)

04/25/2007 01:09:20 AM · #867

Originally posted by ursula:

Sooo ... you guys here at the suck club, you actually learn how to do this kind of stuff? I'm thinking I might hang out (incognito) to learn. (I'm serious)

Actually, I've learned as much how to be a grownup as develop my skills as a photographer.

Every single time I bang on my highchair, these guys give me "that look", and ask me politely to think of others and behave.

Dammit!

It SUCKS!

Oh no! Could it be????????

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04/25/2007 01:13:29 AM · #868

Geez, Svetlana.....what the heck is "n 27(07) Ã�tude d'un femme vue en buste, inachevÃ©"???????

Is that French for Freakin' Awesome?

'Bout time you got your blue!

04/25/2007 01:24:29 AM · #869

Thanks, Jeb! I was a bit surprised by how well my entirely too busy landscape in portrait mode actually did. It really is gorgeous here in springtime, and I was trying to get a bit of that across to the viewer. :-)

I'm off to Amberg - back in a couple of days! (Meanwhile, just got my first comment about how I shouldn't have entered a centered composition in a rule of thirds.... heh!)

Oh, and welcome, Ursula! Hang out all you want, and feel free to share tips and tricks, too. You've got a lot you can teach!

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04/25/2007 01:25:23 AM · #870

Originally posted by Wildcard:

The thing that is most apparent to me about what Svetlana personifies and it's what I strive for more than anything is that sense of wanting to use the medium to achieve what *she* wants first and foremost to communicate.

I'm still struggling enough and insecure enough that I will sell out to a certain extent to acquire the accolades, but it isn't what I want as much as being able to accurately capture the real essence of what I photograph.

I constantly find that the more often I shoot the way I really feel that I see, the better I do, but I all too often chicken out and try to suit what I *think* I should shoot in a certain situation.

My best shots are all like that......each one of the ones on my profile page have the least amount of editing and the most amount of my soul in them.

This little epiphany came to me while I looked at what Svetlana was saying to me with her shot in Hair and it may have made me fully cognizant of what it really is that I want from photography for the first time in my life.

Damn, girl, you're even good with a busted leg!.....8>)

What an incredible artist, human being, and teacher you are, young lady!

klstover

Panasonic DMC-FZ8

04/25/2007 01:28:36 AM · #871

So happy to read all the awesome news.

YAY TEAM SUCK!!

Got some good news of my own: so proud of the before-and-after for my landscape shot.

And can I just say, I got the best comments ever!!

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

04/25/2007 01:32:29 AM · #872

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

LOL. Sometimes you kill me, Jeb. I don't say so often, but I've been enjoying your posts .... um, since you grew up ;D

raish

Olympus C-2500L

04/25/2007 02:09:32 AM · #873

Originally posted by JuliBoc:

Oh, and you better start working on a Suckiest Sucker award for this.

Rule of Thirds III
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Aw, outsucked...

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Grattis, Svetlana.

No 14b from a series of 32, incompleted bust of a woman. Foreign languages are more fun to listen to than to learn and understand.

And I didn't even vote on that image on account of the secret friendly voting police sniffing around our part of town...

Or maybe it's because it should say une femme and I get all upset by grammatical wossnames :)

mist

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

04/25/2007 02:15:03 AM · #874

My Landscape came in as a new PB for me, my first 6 in fact. Not bad for an image that I entered mostly as an experiment.

I've included the original in the entry to show comparison.

I have a feeling the original would have come in around 4.5.

ETA thanks to Mel for her great comment!

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