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05/28/2002 04:32:25 PM · #26 |
Chain pulling doesn't bother me either because i'm sure it's happening.. but i feel confident that it's happening equally across the board too... lol... so it probably washes out...
The score doesn't really matter to me.. I'm confident in the fact that I'm averaging very well overall on this site. I value the feedback more than the score... that's why I'm whining so much about it :)
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05/28/2002 05:49:42 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
...I spend a lot of time looking at these photos and commenting on them. I am proud to say that I have left some type of comment on every photo past the ''curves'' challenge. Some of my comments are short and sweet and some are detailed and elaborate. My will to comment on every photo is getting very weak...
It''s comforting to know that I''m not the only one struggling to develop a fair and appropriate level of comment for these photos. Being new to the forum I am unaware of what is expected. I cannot comment on all photos, but tend to on the ones that I really like and where I believe that I have some constructive criticism. For example, one photo in the people challenge is good, but would be very good with only some minor cropping and level adjustment. I hope not to offend anyone. When dealing with the general public it is easy to be misinterpreted and there are usually those who do not accept any criticism, constructive or otherwise. Overall though, looking at past challenges, it seems that there is some good feedback going on albeit somewhat hit and miss. I am here to challenge my photography skills and learn from my peers, but I understand that with so many photos to review, it can be difficult to spend much time commenting on each.
* This message has been edited by the author on 5/28/2002 5:54:33 PM. |
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05/29/2002 09:37:51 PM · #28 |
| There is one specific problem with commenting on some of the photos in this current challenge, I'm finding. There are some people who have obviously taken a little snapshot of their adorable child/children, seemingly blinded by their parental adoration to how bad the photo actually looks, and entered it. If I criticise the photo, how will they feel? I've avoided commenting on most of these. There are some really great kid photos that I've had no problems complimenting, but those other ones... I just can't do it :) |
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05/29/2002 09:57:39 PM · #29 |
If you ever want to know what I thought of your photo and I didnt comment on it, feel free to ask. Most of the time I am doing good to get a vote in on all of the photos. I try to comment when I think I can help someone, but if it is an opinion such as, I would have made the toast a little more or less toasty, I don't think that is helping someone. That is just my opinion and what I would do if I could figure out how to throw a toaster in the air that well!
I laugh at the comments about the sky should be more blue or something beyond the normal realm of control. Do people actually think when they say things like that? I wonder ... |
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05/30/2002 06:03:04 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by lisae:
There is one specific problem with commenting on some of the photos in this current challenge, I'm finding. There are some people who have obviously taken a little snapshot of their adorable child/children, seemingly blinded by their parental adoration to how bad the photo actually looks, and entered it. If I criticise the photo, how will they feel? I've avoided commenting on most of these. There are some really great kid photos that I've had no problems complimenting, but those other ones... I just can't do it :)
As long as you aren't nasty, which I know you aren't, you shouldn't feel so bad about it. Maybe they do need a message stating "HEY THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE NOT A SNAPSHOT CHALLENGE!". Sometimes I wish these people would simply not submit so that I didn't have so many pictures to go through. But for some of them its the only way they'll get better.
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05/30/2002 06:57:26 AM · #31 |
i agree. in some cases, it may be that these were the only 'people' they had handy.
but you know what else? ive found that there are people who respond totally differently to photos than I do <what? gasp! say it isn't true! Yes, it's true>. Specifically, i've seen people - ie coworkers and whatnot - think a picture of some little child is the cutest most wonderful think they've ever seen and want to rate it highly. Whereas I'm like 'well, it may be a cute kid but it's just an average photo.'
So there may be a large contingent of 'cuteness responders' out there that we don't know about because they don't post to the forums.
Originally posted by lisae:
There is one specific problem with commenting on some of the photos in this current challenge, I'm finding. There are some people who have obviously taken a little snapshot of their adorable child/children, seemingly blinded by their parental adoration to how bad the photo actually looks, and entered it. If I criticise the photo, how will they feel? I've avoided commenting on most of these. There are some really great kid photos that I've had no problems complimenting, but those other ones... I just can't do it :)
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