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Sigma 28-90mm f/3.5-5.6 for Nikon

04/22/2008 11:32:59 PM · #1

Yep. It's 11:32, and I just finished shooting my odd challenge entry. And it sucks. Woohoo.

Love6

Sony DSLR-A330

04/22/2008 10:00:57 PM · #2

Originally posted by yospiff:

Originally posted by Love6:
OoHhh I am soooo stealing that smiley-sign! *LOL*

Help yourself. As long as the original artist does not see it's use and sue us all for the use of his work, then we are fine.

*LOL* good-point- so my diabolical plan is... i'm going to re-create it in illustrator ;) *LMAO* :-P --want one to say anything else funny/silly? :) *ebil grin*

Sigma 28-90mm f/3.5-5.6 for Nikon

04/22/2008 09:53:57 PM · #3

Originally posted by Love6:

OoHhh I am soooo stealing that smiley-sign! *LOL*

Help yourself. As long as the original artist does not see it's use and sue us all for the use of his work, then we are fine.

Love6

Sony DSLR-A330

04/22/2008 09:43:08 PM · #4

Originally posted by yospiff:

On the low side of mediocre, but still raking in the comments.

Votes: 233
Views: 447
Avg Vote: 4.6137
Comments: 22 23

OoHhh I am soooo stealing that smiley-sign! *LOL*

04/22/2008 08:56:35 PM · #5

Oh Patrick, it is so on.

Patrick_R

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM

04/22/2008 07:08:38 PM · #6

Originally posted by jonnienye:

yeah, seems like the closer we get to rollover the lower the scores get,lol

mine has actually gone up today..... wait no back down.... lol it's so unstable!
6.12 as of now

jonnienye

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

04/22/2008 07:07:12 PM · #7

yeah, seems like the closer we get to rollover the lower the scores get,lol

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

04/22/2008 12:30:28 PM · #8

6th lowest score to date in 4yrs & 240 challenges.
Darn.

04/22/2008 11:17:29 AM · #9

I finished photographing at 11:45pm, put the shots onto the computer, and decided that with 10 minutes left, I could re-shoot and get a better one from a new angle. OH MAN. SOOO STRESSFUL! I ended up getting the image submitted amongst waves of cursing at 11:59pm. Never again...

...until tonight probably for the odd challenge :-p

6.14

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

04/22/2008 09:02:49 AM · #10

On the low side of mediocre, but still raking in the comments.

Votes: 233
Views: 447
Avg Vote: 4.6137
Comments: 22 23

Message edited by author 2008-04-22 11:41:47.

aneyra

Nikon D300

04/21/2008 11:33:09 PM · #11

I took my shot 30 minutes before the end of the challenge so I am not surprised to receive low scores.

Views: 400
Avg Vote: 4.8049
Comments: 13

I love my D300, even though I took it at night, it had very low noise so I had to crank the fill light and lower the exposure to give it noise and make the print look older.

epescala

Nikon D7500

Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DL Macro Super for Nikon

04/21/2008 11:22:39 PM · #12

The Paranormal
Votes: 237
Views: 396
Avg Vote: 5.7553
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 04/21/08 11:21 pm

sulamk

Sigma 70-200 /2.8 APO EX DG Macro HSM II

04/21/2008 01:44:55 PM · #13

Originally posted by Sammie:

For some reason the scoring on this challenge seems to me somehow - "not right". Yesterday evening and late night I decided to keep track of my scores because it has been so weird - up and then down all of a sudden in a few votes.

These are the votes I received last night starting around 6pm and ending around 2am (Mountain Daylight Time in Colorado):

6. 10, 8, 10, 3, 3

The two 3's came within 15 minutes of each other very late at night my time - like between 1:30 and 1:45am. It seems very odd that two 3's would come that close to each other when the scoring had been slow all day and on a picture that had been scoring well troughout the evening. It's almost like someone had been logging into multiple accounts and voting a lot of pictures down.

That sounds weird and suspicious and I'm not a suspsicious person at all and usually NEVER think these kind of things but with those two 3's so close together late last night I began to wonder a bit.

Has anyone else noticed anything like this?

yes! and it normaly seems that the low votes come around that time!

Sammie

Olympus OM-D E-M5

Canon EF 28-200 f/3.5 - 5.6 USM

04/21/2008 01:41:17 PM · #14

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

04/21/2008 01:18:55 AM · #15

No favs and only 12 comments- but at 6.13 I'm not complaining. Even though I think i might finish top ten, i'll probably sink down to ...umm...i dunno, 50th?!

jonnienye

Canon EOS-40D

04/20/2008 08:31:03 PM · #16

been hangin around this number for awhile now,im digging it,lots of comments and a fav! The Paranormal

Votes: 230
Views: 417
Avg Vote: 5.7565
Comments: 18
Favorites: 1

Message edited by author 2008-04-21 08:02:31.

cutout

Canon EOS-20D

04/20/2008 06:45:07 AM · #17

Now this is original art! This feels and looks so paranormal it's unreal!! :)

this is one of the comments i got
so how come you guys just know how to press the 4 or 5 button?
protecting your own photo?
i hope not

ah nevermind
i just got carried away

Message edited by author 2008-04-20 15:08:22.

Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DL Macro Super for Nikon

04/20/2008 12:52:38 AM · #18

Getting close to mediocre and pulling in the comments. I'm loving this one.

Votes: 196
Views: 360
Avg Vote: 4.6735
Comments: 19

epescala

Nikon D7500

04/19/2008 12:17:20 PM · #19

Votes: 189
Views: 309
Avg Vote: 5.6878
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 04/19/08 12:16 pm

I thought it would do a bit better... :S

cujee

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

04/18/2008 10:37:32 PM · #20

Votes: 178
Views: 275
Avg Vote: 4.9663
Comments: 7
Favorites: 2
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 04/18/08 10:36 pm

Sad about the score, but ecstatic about the 2 favorites :) I rarely get them.

Message edited by author 2008-04-18 22:37:46.

sulamk

Sigma 70-200 /2.8 APO EX DG Macro HSM II

04/17/2008 10:59:57 PM · #21

Originally posted by L1:

The "angry" voters are out today/tonight...I've dropped .12 since lunchtime. I think I'll go back and revisit my votes and see if any can be adjusted up. Maybe it will help the voting mood! ;)

Have you noticed that for every good vote you get you almost always gt a bad one straight after so your score seems to drop or stay the same.
I noticed this in the centered challenge where I got 11 3's and 11 8's.
the same thing appears to be happening here.

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

04/17/2008 10:00:19 PM · #22

The "angry" voters are out today/tonight...I've dropped .12 since lunchtime. I think I'll go back and revisit my votes and see if any can be adjusted up. Maybe it will help the voting mood! ;)

jonnienye

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

04/17/2008 09:53:26 PM · #23

The Paranormal

Votes: 161
Views: 293
Avg Vote: 5.7205
Comments: 12
Favorites: 1 , creeping up again,lol

Message edited by author 2008-04-17 21:54:20.

04/17/2008 05:03:10 PM · #24

Originally posted by Hotspam:

I was really disappointed initially with my scores (5.1) so far but now I am just resolved to this being a chance for me to really learn what a good photograph is.

I really mean that even though it sounds a little weird to me.

Jay

You will regularly find good images getting low scores. Sometimes it is a matter of voters feeling it does not meet their definition of the theme, Other times it may be a great image, but without the broad appeal needed to hit the high averages. Everybody voting has different criteria and it's hard to tell why if they do not leave comments. After the challenge, take a look at the voting breakdown and you can see how many people really did give your entry a high mark. You can also use one of these spreadsheets to keep track of your scores during voting.

After a while you learn to judge things by the comments as well as the score. Keep in mind that standards are very high here, and your score is an average of what everybody thought of it. Something which rates a 5 on this site will have your friends and relatives telling you how good a photographer you are. (My wife thinks I should sell on the stock sites and my mother thinks my stuff should be in a gallery. I'm not that good yet.)

Message edited by author 2008-04-17 17:04:07.

Patrick_R