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 08/07/2018 10:39:12 AM · #1
Originally posted by sjhuls:
Originally posted by JulietNN:
We are now Arch Enemy;s sjhuls

Bwwwawwwwahahhaaaa <~~~~ Evil Laugh, in case you didn't get it!!


ha ha! I've been waiting for you to notice all this time. Now that it is out in the open I can really bring it on ;)


We shall commence Arch Enemy Wars,,,,,
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soon,,,,
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,after coffee

Edited to add: We now know a block with 2 mugs for our coffee!

Message edited by author 2018-08-07 10:39:46.
 08/07/2018 09:07:57 AM · #2
Originally posted by JulietNN:
We are now Arch Enemy;s sjhuls

Bwwwawwwwahahhaaaa <~~~~ Evil Laugh, in case you didn't get it!!


ha ha! I've been waiting for you to notice all this time. Now that it is out in the open I can really bring it on ;)
 08/07/2018 04:30:45 AM · #3
Originally posted by LevT:
Zoomdak, can you share how you did these? I think you suspended them and cloned out the lines. Good job hiding your tracks!


Threw them into the air and hope they didn’t hit me in the head. My right arm was sore for days after a mug crashed into it.
 08/07/2018 03:04:39 AM · #4
Zoomdak, can you share how you did these? I think you suspended them and cloned out the lines. Good job hiding your tracks!
 08/07/2018 02:46:44 AM · #5
Originally posted by JulietNN:




To be honest, these would have scored you at least an 9-10 from me. I gave you a sorry 5. Sorry, but it was kinda boring. It was a crisp, clean, colorful shot, but just blah. No emotions.

The 2 out takes of your outtakes, have so much humour, so much more of a story. It shows, that you meant to set up a shot, as perfect as you did, but it did not happen, and this is the funny result. It shows, what you meant as a story, and how you failed at it, and that is the greatest story/photo.

The entry, you have a tea pot above their head for no reason. Just kinda floating there.

But again, that is my take on it. ekkkk


Originally posted by sjhuls:


I loved your shot, I could immediately understand the work that went into getting it. It was one of my top scoring images for this challenge. The only thing that would have made me score it higher is if the lighting and scenery behind you made more sense with the objects. It was all a little random.


Thank you both for your input. Hadn't considered submitting one of the the humorous ones. Appreciate the Arch Enemy's opposing views! Ja ja ja!
 08/07/2018 12:25:59 AM · #6
We are now Arch Enemy;s sjhuls

Bwwwawwwwahahhaaaa <~~~~ Evil Laugh, in case you didn't get it!!
 08/07/2018 12:22:07 AM · #7
AND BOOM, two different opinions.
08/07/2018 12:12:51 AM · #8
Originally posted by Zoomdak:
Entry:


Outtakes with some humour:


I loved your shot, I could immediately understand the work that went into getting it. It was one of my top scoring images for this challenge. The only thing that would have made me score it higher is if the lighting and scenery behind you made more sense with the objects. It was all a little random.
 08/06/2018 11:56:14 PM · #9
Hmmmppff, just saw your profile and all those Blue, Red, Yellow with splashing of 4's and 5's,

YOUR entry was JUST FINE, at 44th Place!!! IGNORE anything I said, and anyone's else's comments. You are good mate!!!! xoxo
 08/06/2018 11:48:20 PM · #10




To be honest, these would have scored you at least an 9-10 from me. I gave you a sorry 5. Sorry, but it was kinda boring. It was a crisp, clean, colorful shot, but just blah. No emotions.

The 2 out takes of your outtakes, have so much humour, so much more of a story. It shows, that you meant to set up a shot, as perfect as you did, but it did not happen, and this is the funny result. It shows, what you meant as a story, and how you failed at it, and that is the greatest story/photo.

The entry, you have a tea pot above their head for no reason. Just kinda floating there.

But again, that is my take on it. ekkkk



Message edited by author 2018-08-06 23:52:52.
 08/06/2018 11:34:27 PM · #11
Entry:


Outtakes with some humour:
08/06/2018 11:27:11 PM · #12
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by LevT:
I shot and processed my entry literally right before rollover, and I did not have time to look carefully at all takes I did. So only afterwards I looked at this crop and cursed myself because I thought it had a stronger impact... or maybe not... what do you think?

The original entry

It all depends on how people would interpret/prioritize the challenge -- if they take "shoot a colorful object" to be "take a catalog/product shot of something colorful" then I think your entry fits the challenge better, while your alternate might be considered "better art" ...

I like that closer crop better, but the wider view is also quite good.
 08/06/2018 08:56:44 PM · #13
Originally posted by jomari:
. . .
BUT your entry hits me with a lot more than the others, appeals to me much more than the others. IMO you chose the right one.


+1
 08/06/2018 07:17:31 PM · #14
Originally posted by JakeKurdsjuk:
I'm going to toss this out here because my team spent an inordinate amount of time discussing the difference between what would and would not be considered a scene, and two of us wound up abandoning an image we preferred for another (which seems to have worked out, but I digress).

Here is my image:

Here is the image I decided not to enter...
The original crop:
And the original with the trees removed:

In the flurry of the discussion I decided that the original crop that included the trees might still be considered a scene, and that the removal of those trees may have crossed the line of what you can and cannot do in the removal of objects and earn a DQ (I would have argued that without the tree tops you would go to the horizon but flat earthers might say otherwise :-) ).

So my question in posting this is one of whether or not either would have been a "scene" to you, and to the SC watching whether or not the removal of the trees would have violated editing rules.


I would accept all versions as colourful objects.
If this had been mine (I wish!!) I wouldn't have hesitated to remove the trees.
BUT your entry hits me with a lot more than the others, appeals to me much more than the others. IMO you chose the right one.
 08/06/2018 07:12:44 PM · #15
We don't know what's behind the trees, some hills, a four-lane highway, a horse ... the only way there would be sky is if the trees were located on the very crest of a hill with the photographer lower down. I'm not saying it would be a definite DQ, but more possible than just cropping them off.

I think replacing the reflected trees with sky would get a valid vote from me (the balloons might, too), but my opinion can vary from the majority ... :-)
 08/06/2018 06:52:49 PM · #16
Originally posted by GeneralE:
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Just cropping the trees from the bottom of this image would have been completely legal under every rule set except Minimal since January, 2004. However, replacing them with additional sky is probably not legal ...


Image in question:

Standard Rules state you may "use cloning or similar tools to remove unwanted objects from your image. Objects removed must be replaced with with what actually would be visible if the distracting object were not there in the first place."

For me, if the tree tops weren't there, there would be sky. So I'm not getting why you can't replace them with sky.

How about this one? to

Message edited by author 2018-08-06 18:53:26.
 08/06/2018 05:25:35 PM · #17
Originally posted by sjhuls:
I think removing the trees would have been borderline but I doubt it would get a DQ with the more liberal rules.

Just cropping the trees from the bottom of this image would have been completely legal under every rule set except Minimal since January, 2004.

However, replacing them with additional sky is probably not legal ...

Message edited by author 2018-08-06 17:27:17.
 08/06/2018 05:11:47 PM · #18
Originally posted by JakeKurdsjuk:
I'm going to toss this out here because my team spent an inordinate amount of time discussing the difference between what would and would not be considered a scene, and two of us wound up abandoning an image we preferred for another (which seems to have worked out, but I digress).

Here is my image:

Here is the image I decided not to enter...
The original crop:
And the original with the trees removed:

In the flurry of the discussion I decided that the original crop that included the trees might still be considered a scene, and that the removal of those trees may have crossed the line of what you can and cannot do in the removal of objects and earn a DQ (I would have argued that without the tree tops you would go to the horizon but flat earthers might say otherwise :-) ).

So my question in posting this is one of whether or not either would have been a "scene" to you, and to the SC watching whether or not the removal of the trees would have violated editing rules.


To me it would not be a scene, a scene would be a sunset or colorful trees, or a field of flowers. This would have clearly been object. I think removing the trees would have been borderline but I doubt it would get a DQ with the more liberal rules.
 08/06/2018 05:09:32 PM · #19
Originally posted by LevT:
I shot and processed my entry literally right before rollover, and I did not have time to look carefully at all takes I did. So only afterwards I looked at this crop and cursed myself because I thought it had a stronger impact... or maybe not... what do you think?

The original entry


The drop in front of the slinky didn't add anything to the photo for me, I gave it a 6.
 08/06/2018 04:40:35 PM · #20
Originally posted by LevT:
Thank you guys! For me, my entry was too much like a "catalog shot", as GeneralE has said, and I usually detest this look. However, Wendy, you may be right, and it indeed might have worked better for the challenge, score-wise.


It's a catalog shot without the marble. The marble turned it into something interesting/fun/playful for me. Perhaps because my mind would have just thought of the slinky. The marble brought up a whole bunch of questions and intrigued me.
 08/06/2018 04:13:55 PM · #21
Thank you guys! For me, my entry was too much like a "catalog shot", as GeneralE has said, and I usually detest this look. However, Wendy, you may be right, and it indeed might have worked better for the challenge, score-wise.
 08/06/2018 03:59:45 PM · #22
actually, Lev, I thought I'd like the closer crop better, but I don't. The original entry is clean and crisp and gives more of a sense of scale and how silly small the marble is in comparison. In the thumbnails, the close crop is better. In reality, the original goes over much much better.

That's why I wish you couldn't vote on cell phones. So many times you just miss the details that make the shot.
 08/06/2018 03:57:50 PM · #23
Cool! Thanks guys! That does help.
 08/06/2018 03:43:38 PM · #24
Originally posted by LevT:
I shot and processed my entry literally right before rollover, and I did not have time to look carefully at all takes I did. So only afterwards I looked at this crop and cursed myself because I thought it had a stronger impact... or maybe not... what do you think?

The original entry

It all depends on how people would interpret/prioritize the challenge -- if they take "shoot a colorful object" to be "take a catalog/product shot of something colorful" then I think your entry fits the challenge better, while your alternate might be considered "better art" ...
 08/06/2018 03:35:29 PM · #25
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by vawendy:
So I'm curious whether people thought my photo was boring or didn't meet the challenge.

My take: Definitely met the challenge. Not a blah photo, but in relation to all the other color entries it just didn't rise to the top. I gave it a 6.


I gave it a 6 as well, it met the challenge, but since it was just one color others got a higher score for me. I would have given it a higher score in a different challenge. So in a way I guess it was a little DNMC
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