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03/02/2010 08:54:57 PM · #1 |
Hi all,
I was wondering how the community here sees the topic rare & bad vs common & perfect when it comes to challenge ratings.
In other words:
If I had a not-so-good image of a yeti (or whatever else rare/hard to take pictures of), do you rate it high for the difficult motive or do you expect an image of such a motive to be as technically good as a picture of a ubiquitous object to get a high rating? |
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03/02/2010 08:59:54 PM · #2 |
| I rate hummingbird pictures low - does that help? |
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03/02/2010 09:07:09 PM · #3 |
| I'll often give a modest bump if I recognize that a particular image was difficult to obtain, however the end result is of more weight. |
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03/02/2010 09:07:49 PM · #4 |
Bad photos are bad photos.
Now, that being said, I do try to appreciate what it took to capture an image, not just rarity, but also many other measures of difficulty... Still, crappy results=low score. |
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03/02/2010 09:18:02 PM · #5 |
| I pretty agree with what everybody else has said here. Often I'll give my bump for difficulty in the form of a comment that references the difficulty of the shot, and that I understand those difficulties, but things that detract still detract. |
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03/02/2010 10:41:24 PM · #6 |
While there are subjects that have been photographed so often, we can't bear looking at another one without feeling nauseous, there are many subjects so inconspicuously commonplace, hardly anyone notices them. That's why, from a photographer's point of view, everything is worth a another look.
I very pedestrian example: local photographers share multiple views of the same old barns. No one thinks of photographing the big, contemporary ones without that obvious "appeal".
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