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12/18/2008 11:46:13 AM · #176
Woohoo!! Got my 1st comment!! Was very constructive! Didnt initially like what it said, but in line with what I said about learning from criticism, Im gonna try n practice what I preach! Thanks commenter!! (identities hidden to protect the innocent)

yospiff: could you get Ray to do me a meat feast supreme with extra cheese please?
12/18/2008 11:52:54 AM · #177
wow--surged slightly (can you surge slightly?) above my personal worst to 4.84...

but I got pizza :-)
12/18/2008 11:55:51 AM · #178
Originally posted by yospiff:

Originally posted by ghosh_pankaj:

are you guys ordering some more pizzas :)


We've phoned in the order. It's waiting for pickup at Ray's pizza in N.Y. Would you pick it up on your way to the rock and save us the delivery charge?


Nothing better than New York pizza
12/18/2008 11:57:58 AM · #179
You're making me feel very hungry.
12/18/2008 12:06:18 PM · #180
Votes: 102
Views: 154
Avg Vote: 4.5784
Comments: 1

The comment said absolutely nothing, and it was from a baghead. Pass the garlic pizza please.
12/18/2008 12:11:24 PM · #181
Originally posted by JuliBoc:

Votes: 102
Views: 154
Avg Vote: 4.5784
Comments: 1

The comment said absolutely nothing, and it was from a baghead. Pass the garlic pizza please.


Stats: You have rated 56 of 216 images (26%) in this challenge.
You have commented on 56 images (26%) in this challenge.

I'm going to comment yours soon...i guess..
It's not easy to comment 216 photos...heheh
12/18/2008 01:12:11 PM · #182
Originally posted by pedrobop:

...i'm not a member and i had to study to understand what is bokeh, and i don't know if i'm wright yet! ...

Ummm...not quite yet. :-)

ETA - Knew I should have gone with the Christmas Tree theme. :-P

Message edited by author 2008-12-18 13:16:33.
12/18/2008 01:14:25 PM · #183
I was looking through the entries and I am very suprised on how many enteries don't have bokeh in them..
12/18/2008 01:15:43 PM · #184
Originally posted by electrolost:

I was looking through the entries and I am very suprised on how many enteries don't have bokeh in them..


What is your definition of bokeh?
12/18/2008 01:28:37 PM · #185
Originally posted by glad2badad:

Originally posted by pedrobop:

...i'm not a member and i had to study to understand what is bokeh, and i don't know if i'm wright yet! ...

Ummm...not quite yet. :-)

ETA - Knew I should have gone with the Christmas Tree theme. :-P


???
12/18/2008 01:29:00 PM · #186
Originally posted by electrolost:

I was looking through the entries and I am very suprised on how many enteries don't have bokeh in them..


I agree.
12/18/2008 01:34:27 PM · #187
Originally posted by electrolost:

I was looking through the entries and I am very suprised on how many enteries don't have bokeh in them..


I found very, very few without bokeh. Maybe you need to expand your definition. Maybe everyone should and scores would rise at least slightly.
12/18/2008 01:44:53 PM · #188
Originally posted by Kelli:

Originally posted by electrolost:

I was looking through the entries and I am very suprised on how many enteries don't have bokeh in them..


I found very, very few without bokeh. Maybe you need to expand your definition. Maybe everyone should and scores would rise at least slightly.


I agree Kelli. Of course the confusion (as usual) could be minimized by having an actual definition to the challenge! Perhaps one that states "for the purpose of this challenge bokeh is defined as: ..........."

I think far to many people here have heard about "little points of light" which really has nothing at all to do with bokeh. Bokeh can have them, or not, they are not the definition of bokeh. sigh.

Message edited by author 2008-12-18 13:45:27.
12/18/2008 01:51:48 PM · #189
Well that's the 100:

Votes: 100
Views: 147
Avg Vote: 5.0700
Comments: 2

Don't know if that is good or bad.
12/18/2008 01:55:17 PM · #190
There's not doubt that mine has bokeh, by any definition of the word. But that hasn't helped the score any...still at 4.5. There must be something major wrong in the technicals, but nobody is saying.
12/18/2008 02:10:16 PM · #191
Originally posted by pedrobop:

Originally posted by glad2badad:

Originally posted by pedrobop:

...i'm not a member and i had to study to understand what is bokeh, and i don't know if i'm wright yet! ...

Ummm...not quite yet. :-)

ETA - Knew I should have gone with the Christmas Tree theme. :-P

???

I was answering your statement of "don't know if i'm wright yet!".
12/18/2008 02:17:22 PM · #192
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh

Too bad we can't require ALL voters to read definition before voting and commenting.
12/18/2008 02:24:15 PM · #193
Originally posted by farfel53:

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh

Too bad we can't require ALL voters to read definition before voting and commenting.


Hey that is where I went to make sure I really understood what I was supposed to be looking at. It definately helped me during voting on this challenge. Now I just have to go back and comment more.
12/18/2008 03:01:05 PM · #194
Heres another link for Bokeh

//www.kenrockwell.com/tech/bokeh.htm
12/18/2008 03:08:24 PM · #195
Originally posted by yospiff:

Originally posted by jhomrighaus:

Votes: 83
Views: 114
Avg Vote: 3.9036
Comments: 0

What are you guys complaining about, My personal worst and probably in the running for a brown this time. What a waste of time and effort.


Not a chance!

Votes: 94
Views: 154
Avg Vote: 3.3191
Comments: 10


See what I dont get is that you have 10 comments and I have none? I would guess that means that people found something specific in your image that they did not like and could comment on it where as in mine my best guess is that they didn't get it but could not find something specific to bitch about.
12/18/2008 03:11:56 PM · #196
Originally posted by electrolost:

I was looking through the entries and I am very suprised on how many enteries don't have bokeh in them..


I think this is the fundamental problem with this challenge, in order to evaluate the quality of a photo you first need to understand what the photographer was trying to accomplish. As was stated above almost all of the photos in the challenge have and use Bokeh, many of them use it in unusual ways to enhance the photo but unfortunately for them many people seem to think Bokeh is all about fuzzy circles and points of light which really does a major disservice to the concept.

Please share with us why you have made this statement. What do you think is Bokeh that is missing from these photos?
12/18/2008 03:18:01 PM · #197
im on a 4.34

Shame, i predicted a 3 for this and 10 ppl telling me i broke the rules. So far, im above score and only 3 comments calling for a rules violation.
12/18/2008 03:28:10 PM · #198
Originally posted by jhomrighaus:

See what I dont get is that you have 10 comments and I have none?


Comments depend a lot on the image. I would imagine if you wandered over to yospiff's portfolio and then looked at the images in Bokeh V again you'd be able to pick his out pretty easily. At that point you can probably see why he's getting a lot of comments.

Also, during the challenge isn't necessarily the best time to get feedback. You may or may not get the comments (as you've discovered). Don't sweat it and post a thread after it's over asking for help. You'll get it for sure at that point.
12/18/2008 03:55:22 PM · #199
Originally posted by jhomrighaus:

Originally posted by electrolost:

I was looking through the entries and I am very suprised on how many enteries don't have bokeh in them..


I think this is the fundamental problem with this challenge, in order to evaluate the quality of a photo you first need to understand what the photographer was trying to accomplish. As was stated above almost all of the photos in the challenge have and use Bokeh, many of them use it in unusual ways to enhance the photo but unfortunately for them many people seem to think Bokeh is all about fuzzy circles and points of light which really does a major disservice to the concept.

Please share with us why you have made this statement. What do you think is Bokeh that is missing from these photos?


Well...i think "many" was a wrong word..But i agree that there are some pictures there almost don't have background, others that the background is just a little bit out of focus and have no aspects of a creamy background. I think circles of light is just a thing that happens in Bokeh and it's away from a condition, but makes a lot of people think that bokeh is all about that (in my first contact with bokeh i thought that). There are photos with the background too close from the object. I see none of this as Bokeh, that's what i think.
12/18/2008 03:56:18 PM · #200
Originally posted by jhomrighaus:

See what I dont get is that you have 10 comments and I have none? I would guess that means that people found something specific in your image that they did not like and could comment on it where as in mine my best guess is that they didn't get it but could not find something specific to bitch about.


More or less. I gave them something to talk about. The low score was totally expected.
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