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 03/02/2011 08:19:32 PM · #51
High fours which is a good showing for me.
 03/02/2011 08:57:33 PM · #52
I had fun voting. I had some real wow moments and not all were the expected "minimalist" approach as was described in a link earlier posted. Negative space and background CAN be the same thing, but not always. It depends. Maybe I'm just more liberal with this one. Got another nice comment, but score still sucking.

Votes: 55
Views: 95
Avg Vote: 4.5091
Comments: 2
Favorites: 0
 03/02/2011 09:05:29 PM · #53
Votes: 57
Views: 98
Avg Vote: 5.2632
Comments: 2

This one too. Was up to 5.8 now down down
03/02/2011 09:14:29 PM · #54
Votes: 59
Views: 101
Avg Vote: 6.0169
Comments: 2

It was higher earlier but its slowly dropping :( but ill be happy if it stays in the 6's. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
 03/02/2011 09:20:23 PM · #55
Liked it better when it was 6.4 but still holding over 6 so that's good

Votes: 65
Views: 122
Avg Vote: 6.1538
Comments: 3
Favorites: 1
03/02/2011 09:59:28 PM · #56
Votes: 64
Views: 110
Avg Vote: 5.4063
Comments: 3
Favorites: 1

Dropping horribly with every vote.
 03/02/2011 10:03:45 PM · #57
Originally posted by mefnj:
Hey, there were two threads to discuss this before the deadline... dpc seemed to override the traditional understanding of "negative space" in the challenge description, so that is why the entries are all over the place... it might have been better to have these links as the references for the description so everyone was working from the same understanding

Meanwhile, my great shot is sucking below 5 ;)

-mefnj


One of the first lessons of my DPC existence was no matter how much it's discussed in a thread, somehow there are a million interpretations of a challenge description...
 03/02/2011 10:09:05 PM · #58
It seems to me, the more it's discussed beforehand the lower the scores.

Actually, when it's discussed negatively in the "show your vote" threads, the voters react negatively.
hmmm...

Message edited by author 2011-03-02 22:12:36.
 03/02/2011 10:46:18 PM · #59
Votes: 65
Views: 121
Avg Vote: 12.1231
Comments: 1

All of you might as well give up now : )

*edit*
Its awesome when I'm reading the message boards at school on my free hour and I step away for a second and find out later my friend was playing with my message : (

Message edited by author 2011-03-03 00:43:33.
 03/03/2011 12:43:27 AM · #60
Votes: 69
Views: 108
Avg Vote: 5.9565
Comments: 3

I just noticed this. Not looking good. I may have jumped into PH crowd too soon! I need one more 6 before I can do that!
 03/03/2011 05:09:16 AM · #61
it's amazing the constant downward voting trend. from 25 votes and forward it has done nothing but fall, fall, fall.
 03/03/2011 06:01:04 AM · #62

Still falling, mostly. Hoping for it to stay over 5.
 03/03/2011 09:18:02 AM · #63
Originally posted by Marjo:
It seems to me, the more it's discussed beforehand the lower the scores.

Actually, when it's discussed negatively in the "show your vote" threads, the voters react negatively.
hmmm...


Everything is getting scored lower recently. The shoe challenge had 191 entries, yet the top ten when down to 6.2. I've never seen a top 10 that low with that many entries. Batteries is getting hit hard, and puzzle macro was also a lot lower scoring than the previous puzzle macro. Maybe it's the influx of new people with lower voting averages. Maybe people are just getting bored.
 03/03/2011 09:44:21 AM · #64
Originally posted by vawendy:
Originally posted by Marjo:
It seems to me, the more it's discussed beforehand the lower the scores.

Actually, when it's discussed negatively in the "show your vote" threads, the voters react negatively.
hmmm...


Everything is getting scored lower recently. The shoe challenge had 191 entries, yet the top ten when down to 6.2. I've never seen a top 10 that low with that many entries. Batteries is getting hit hard, and puzzle macro was also a lot lower scoring than the previous puzzle macro. Maybe it's the influx of new people with lower voting averages. Maybe people are just getting bored.

Scenario 1: Voters are voting lower
Scenario 2: The overall quality of entries is lower
 03/03/2011 09:45:53 AM · #65
Originally posted by gcoulson:
Originally posted by vawendy:
Originally posted by Marjo:
It seems to me, the more it's discussed beforehand the lower the scores.

Actually, when it's discussed negatively in the "show your vote" threads, the voters react negatively.
hmmm...


Everything is getting scored lower recently. The shoe challenge had 191 entries, yet the top ten when down to 6.2. I've never seen a top 10 that low with that many entries. Batteries is getting hit hard, and puzzle macro was also a lot lower scoring than the previous puzzle macro. Maybe it's the influx of new people with lower voting averages. Maybe people are just getting bored.

Scenario 1: Voters are voting lower
Scenario 2: The overall quality of entries is lower

Scenario 3: So it wasnt the DPL after all that was lowering the votes - LOL
 03/03/2011 09:52:09 AM · #66
I've been back for three challenges and the voting goes down...must be me!
 03/03/2011 10:27:26 AM · #67
Originally posted by gcoulson:
Scenario 1: Voters are voting lower
Scenario 2: The overall quality of entries is lower
These two are related and hence there is only one scenario! :)
 03/03/2011 10:34:39 AM · #68
Originally posted by marnet:
Originally posted by gcoulson:
Scenario 1: Voters are voting lower
Scenario 2: The overall quality of entries is lower
These two are related and hence there is only one scenario! :)

For the most part, yes...but not necessarily. A low vote may be due to stingy voters (irrespective of picture quality), or you may just have a bad picture. It's easier to blame the voters though..
 03/03/2011 10:41:46 AM · #69
Votes: 75
Views: 119
Avg Vote: 5.9200
Comments: 3

This is down from 6.18 at 27 votes! My interpretation is that a lot of voters do not understand what Negative Space means. The same happened with the Rule of Thirds. I have seen there photos that had subject cover only one third of the frame (!) With the Negative Space the common thinking must be that more than 50% of the photo should be a blank area with no pattern of any kind allowed. We'll see how many of entries in the under 5.5 range have the literal blank space when the voting is over (excluding the experimenting PH crowd). It should be interesting.
 03/03/2011 10:46:01 AM · #70
Originally posted by marnet:
... We'll see how many of entries in the under 5.5 range have the literal blank space when the voting is over (excluding the experimenting PH crowd). It should be interesting.

What does the acronym PH stand for?
 03/03/2011 10:50:20 AM · #71
Originally posted by hahn23:
Originally posted by marnet:
... We'll see how many of entries in the under 5.5 range have the literal blank space when the voting is over (excluding the experimenting PH crowd). It should be interesting.

What does the acronym PH stand for?
PostHumous
 03/03/2011 11:01:21 AM · #72
Originally posted by marnet:
Votes: 75
Views: 119
Avg Vote: 5.9200
Comments: 3

This is down from 6.18 at 27 votes! My interpretation is that a lot of voters do not understand what Negative Space means. The same happened with the Rule of Thirds. I have seen there photos that had subject cover only one third of the frame (!) With the Negative Space the common thinking must be that more than 50% of the photo should be a blank area with no pattern of any kind allowed. We'll see how many of entries in the under 5.5 range have the literal blank space when the voting is over (excluding the experimenting PH crowd). It should be interesting.

It was obvious from many of the entries that the concept/understanding of Negative Space was variable. Blank space or lots of open space is not necessarily negative space.
 03/03/2011 11:09:04 AM · #73
Originally posted by marnet:
Originally posted by hahn23:
Originally posted by marnet:
... We'll see how many of entries in the under 5.5 range have the literal blank space when the voting is over (excluding the experimenting PH crowd). It should be interesting.

What does the acronym PH stand for?
PostHumous

Are you insinuating groups who have unconventional or different interpretations of "negative space" are inverse voting on images with "other" interpretations? What is your evidence of this? It's probably better form to avoid discussing the characteristics of groups of images during the voting period.
 03/03/2011 11:10:10 AM · #74
Originally posted by gcoulson:
Blank space or lots of open space is not necessarily negative space.
To you or to the low scoring voters?
 03/03/2011 11:15:53 AM · #75
Can only speak for myself and my own basic understanding of this compositional technique.
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