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06/01/2005 11:38:11 AM · #76
Something to please consider when scoring a "Choice" photo low is this. Does the photo allow you to decide what you would do? That was my intention and I think I managed a good effort. I took a photo that would inspire the viewer to decide which way they would go.

Would you folks please go back and when viewing a photo see if the photo allows you to decide perhaps that's what the artist had in mind and I think that meets the challenge IMHO.
06/01/2005 12:38:56 PM · #77
Originally posted by colda:

Originally posted by queanbeez:

so i guess an indecision and decision are the same thing?


Ironically, I remember there being a similar dose of such pedantic tosh with the 'indecision' challenge.

...and we wonder why so many people find it hard to summon the enthusiasm to enter challenges.


No kidding! First one in three months for me and I'm getting slaughtered by the litteralists. I'll be lucky if I crack 5.0. I just got a comment stating that "Meets challenge description.....................1" (out of 10). So according to this person, I have the intelligence and inspiration of a slug.
06/01/2005 12:40:41 PM · #78
Originally posted by mhommel:

Something to please consider when scoring a "Choice" photo low is this. Does the photo allow you to decide what you would do? That was my intention and I think I managed a good effort. I took a photo that would inspire the viewer to decide which way they would go.

Would you folks please go back and when viewing a photo see if the photo allows you to decide perhaps that's what the artist had in mind and I think that meets the challenge IMHO.


Here, here! That's excatly the approach I was hoping most people would be using.
06/01/2005 12:42:51 PM · #79
Originally posted by Beagleboy:

So according to this person, I have the intelligence and inspiration of a slug.


well then stay away from the salt in the Granular challenge =)
06/01/2005 12:43:54 PM · #80
I did submit a photo, but I had many doubts about it. I know that it is currently running around a 3.7, but it is really about what I expected. Well, that is about 64 votes. Still, I look at them all as assignments, anyway, so I am not losing sleep over it.
06/01/2005 12:47:49 PM · #81
Hey GUYS!!!!!!!!! Take it easy!
06/01/2005 12:56:42 PM · #82
I have a 5.0952 does that mean i met the challenge? :)

Message edited by author 2005-06-01 12:57:44.
06/01/2005 12:59:39 PM · #83
I can't wait till the post challenge discussion hehe. There're some really fantastic photos that fall very short of meeting the challenge. I tend to give the technically fantastic photographs that do this fairly middle range scores because I just don't have the heart to vote something that pleases my eye so much sub 5.
06/01/2005 01:06:29 PM · #84
Originally posted by queanbeez:

ok done voting. if your photo didnt show a "made" decision and i had to guess what the outcome of your photo was than you received a 3 because in my opinion you didnt meet the challenge and you do not deserve to win!


I'm sorry, but the more I read this, the more I get irritated and just need to vent. Obiviously, based on my 4.1 score, the majority of folks that have voted thus far feel the same way as the commenter above. But I just don't see it this way at all....

Challenge description: We all have to make them. Creatively shoot a decision

This doesn't clarify to me that it's a decision to be made or a made decision, in which case either would work for the challenge in my opinion. Am I wrong in interpreting it this way? I guess, as most challenges go, it's a matter of opinion and the majority will win out in the end. I just wish I was with the majority on this one, damn it. :-)
06/01/2005 01:08:23 PM · #85
Originally posted by pawdrix:

5.4516 is not a molestation...it's a Ribbon.


Oooh... that'd be a nice surprise. I'm at an otherwise unremarkable 5.66. ;-)
06/01/2005 01:08:29 PM · #86
I am with ya on this Jen.
06/01/2005 01:10:50 PM · #87
Originally posted by jenesis:

This doesn't clarify to me that it's a decision to be made or a made decision, in which case either would work for the challenge in my opinion. Am I wrong in interpreting it this way?


The description didn't specify, so why should the voters?
06/01/2005 01:13:03 PM · #88
Originally posted by scalvert:

Originally posted by jenesis:

This doesn't clarify to me that it's a decision to be made or a made decision, in which case either would work for the challenge in my opinion. Am I wrong in interpreting it this way?


The description didn't specify, so why should the voters?


Touche...

(still bugs me though) :-P

Message edited by author 2005-06-01 13:14:03.
06/01/2005 01:30:15 PM · #89
Originally posted by jenesis:

I'm sorry, but the more I read this, the more I get irritated and just need to vent. Obiviously, based on my 4.1 score, the majority of folks that have voted thus far feel the same way as the commenter above. But I just don't see it this way at all....
Challenge description: We all have to make them. Creatively shoot a decision
This doesn't clarify to me that it's a decision to be made or a made decision, in which case either would work for the challenge in my opinion. Am I wrong in interpreting it this way? I guess, as most challenges go, it's a matter of opinion and the majority will win out in the end. I just wish I was with the majority on this one, damn it. :-)


Obviously it's too late now, but this thread was very interesting regarding "what is a decision". Link
06/01/2005 01:36:00 PM · #90
I just realized something...

In my shot (without giving too much away) I have 2 subjects, one is in focus the other is not. I should have called my shot the subject in focus because that would emphasize that the decision has been MADE. I think that's why I'm getting voted down.

To think, 2 words probably had a huge impact on the avg. vote for my shot!

Votes: 76
Avg Vote: 5.5526


06/01/2005 02:00:27 PM · #91
Originally posted by AlexMonty:

I just realized something...

In my shot (without giving too much away) I have 2 subjects, one is in focus the other is not. I should have called my shot the subject in focus because that would emphasize that the decision has been MADE. I think that's why I'm getting voted down.

To think, 2 words probably had a huge impact on the avg. vote for my shot!

Votes: 76
Avg Vote: 5.5526


You have to be careful about submitting technically creative shots in open challenges....well you know what that causes...

ED: Omitted word

Message edited by author 2005-06-01 14:00:59.
06/01/2005 02:04:57 PM · #92
I believe the difficulty with this challenge was the topic. It was hard to create the feeling of decision. I feel satisfied with the scores I gave. Well over 2 1/2 dozen photos recieved 6+ from me. About 6 photos got an 8. 2 got a 9. And 2 very good photos got a 10.

There were a number of photos that didn't convey a decision period (some of these were very good photos on their own, I just didn't get the feeling of a decision).

I prefered photos that conveyed emotion about mundane decisions (Humor, Horror, Pensive Thought, etc.).

There were many great photos however, even though not all of them got my highest rating... I still liked them.

Message edited by muckpond - pls. don't discuss specific image topics.
06/01/2005 02:45:37 PM · #93
If y'all are so gosh darned annoyed with the "quality" of the images in this challenge, with the rather loose interpretation of the theme, with whatever, why not just sit out the vote? Alternatively, vote 5s on all of the photos but the few that you do think meet the challenge, etc, and let's get the fun back in the site before it runs too far away.

You want some cheese with that whine? ;-P
06/01/2005 03:15:28 PM · #94
Originally posted by khdoss:

[quote=gibun]This is a visual challenge and I should not have to figure out what the photographer was thinking. It should be apparent to me just by looking at the submission.
Karen


Agreed - if I have to see the title to see the "decision," I consider it not to meet the challenge.

Damon
06/01/2005 03:21:38 PM · #95
Originally posted by mycelium:

Originally posted by khdoss:

This is a visual challenge and I should not have to figure out what the photographer was thinking. It should be apparent to me just by looking at the submission.
Karen


Agreed - if I have to see the title to see the "decision," I consider it not to meet the challenge.

Damon


Some people just never get anything or complain too much......oh well....like Jen said on to the next challenge.
06/01/2005 03:36:54 PM · #96
Actually (on second thought) these voters can go straight to hell ;)
06/01/2005 03:40:52 PM · #97
After reviewing all the pics in this challenge, I found myself voting higher than normal on pictures that weren't that good technically, but met the challenge. There were so few of these that I almost cheered out loud everytime I found one!

I'm hanging in a middle-of-the-road score that may actually do better than I thought sinse its going to be a low scoring challenge.

Votes: 75
Views: 103
Avg Vote: 5.1733
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
06/01/2005 03:50:52 PM · #98
Im torn over this challenge, heres why. There are many good photos that like so many have pointed out aren't smack on the head obvious decisions. There are even some (many) that appear to just be a good photo, which was submitted with a title which makes the photo a decision. I don't think it is fair to those whose limited by the theme that many people retitle their "best of" shots, but then again I don't think its fair to those who went out to shoot a decision in an abstract way and whose title is just an explanation of their creative process. Im trying to figure out who went out and shot a decision and who just took the best picture off their hard drive and gave it a "decisive" name. I will vote accordingly but I really feel that some people missed the point of this challenge and some people got the point (but are going to get low scores, because voters will feel they are another person who missed the point). Creativity may be confused with topic irrelevance on this challenge and vice versa. Anyone get what Im trying to say? Please vote wisely..
06/01/2005 03:56:28 PM · #99
<smackdown>

REMINDER: please do not discuss specific groups of images in a challenge while voting continues.

i have hidden one post in this thread already. please don't pick on specific images or categories of images.

</smackdown>

you may now resume your conversation.
06/01/2005 04:00:21 PM · #100
I will only reply with............

MINE IS THE BEST ONE.......NOW GET OUT THERE AND VOTE IT SOME 10s!!!

I hear your pain, Ped, and agree. Its a tough one. Gonna be a long week!
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