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07/18/2007 06:13:10 AM · #51 |
Originally posted by escapetooz:
You have rated 50 of 365 images (14%) in this challenge.
You have commented on 49 of 365 images (13%) in this challenge.
And the one missing comment is because I typed this whole long thing and then DPC was like "cannot go through" so I said eh, I'll come back to it, and just voted.
Phew. I'm tired! It's 3 am! More comments tomorrow. I will make it to the end!! |
Good on ya escapee.
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07/18/2007 06:17:15 AM · #52 |
Natural Light Portrait
Votes: 22
Views: 30
Avg Vote: 5.8182
Comments: 1
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07/18/2007 06:25:59 AM · #53 |
Originally posted by Judi:
I cannot believe this crap. I entered an image using no reflectors, flash or other electrical light. I have sold many images from this shoot to people already....and yet my score is a b****it 4.7 score...what gives? |
LOL, Judi, even after all this time you are surprised with Real-world-photo-appreciation Vs DPC-voting-trends. Mate, you know as well as I do that the two are mutually exclusive. I am even toying with the idea of a Self-DQ for this challenge, never done it before so there is always a first time. My shot is absolutely adored by the model and her husband/family, yet its not doing too well on here.
I feel your pain matey.. |
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07/18/2007 06:43:29 AM · #54 |
Originally posted by Simms:
LOL, Judi, even after all this time you are surprised with Real-world-photo-appreciation Vs DPC-voting-trends. |
Surely there's a difference. To sell a photo, you need one person to really really like it. To get a good score on DPC, you need a lot of people to quite like it.
Isn't the audience an important part of any artwork? |
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07/18/2007 06:49:14 AM · #55 |
Originally posted by Borusa:
Originally posted by Simms:
LOL, Judi, even after all this time you are surprised with Real-world-photo-appreciation Vs DPC-voting-trends. |
Surely there's a difference. To sell a photo, you need one person to really really like it. To get a good score on DPC, you need a lot of people to quite like it.
Isn't the audience an important part of any artwork? |
This particular image has been shown on a 30 meter screen several times and purchased several times...does that equal a lot of people????? It is now 4.3!
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07/18/2007 06:50:10 AM · #56 |
Originally posted by Borusa:
Originally posted by Simms:
LOL, Judi, even after all this time you are surprised with Real-world-photo-appreciation Vs DPC-voting-trends. |
Surely there's a difference. To sell a photo, you need one person to really really like it. To get a good score on DPC, you need a lot of people to quite like it.
Isn't the audience an important part of any artwork? |
It depends on the audience. If show some of my shots to Dave Average/Joe Public the repsonse is "wow, thats amazing, did you really take that" etc.. You must of all experienced it at some point, however, you then stick the same shot into a challenge here at DPC and slowly lose the will to live as it gets crucified by Mick Voter.
Granted the odd photo or three of mine has done OK here as well. But on the whole the real-world reaction does not always reflect the DPC opinion. (Yes, I know the site is made up of photographers and thats why etc.. lets not go down that route.) |
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07/18/2007 06:59:48 AM · #57 |
Originally posted by Judi:
Originally posted by Borusa:
Originally posted by Simms:
LOL, Judi, even after all this time you are surprised with Real-world-photo-appreciation Vs DPC-voting-trends. |
Surely there's a difference. To sell a photo, you need one person to really really like it. To get a good score on DPC, you need a lot of people to quite like it.
Isn't the audience an important part of any artwork? |
This particular image has been shown on a 30 meter screen several times and purchased several times...does that equal a lot of people????? It is now 4.3! |
Wow... well I think if my image had that kind of attention I would certainly be baffled BUT at least you have that as assurance. It really sucks when you go... wow is it really that bad and you wonder if all your friends were lying when they said it was good. But having people buy it, they don't do that to just be nice!
DPC voters for the most part have a specific taste and rarely does it fall into the realm of art (in my opinion... of course this has been debated many times).
Art takes too much thinking... it hurts the brains after seeing hundrends of boring images, subtle ones get overlooked as one of the "bad" ones.
Of course I have no idea what style yours is. All I can say it be happy with your real world success. It means a lot more. |
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07/18/2007 07:01:44 AM · #58 |
Thanks Monica for your wise words. I know it is just the way it is...maybe I am just too tired to be doing this. Not to worries...thanks again.
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07/18/2007 07:07:49 AM · #59 |
It is frustrating, early on it seems many of the voters -most of whom probably have pictures in the challenge - feel that voting other peoples pictures down for some reason makes their pictures better. Who can understand people?
Jack |
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07/18/2007 07:15:35 AM · #60 |
It's kind of funny that when we go to a gallery, or showing of photographic arts, there are no magnifying glasses brought out to see if an out of place pixel exists, or dictionaries and legal documents are brought out of briefcases, for the sole purpose of seeing if a piece of art has has a something spelled wrong in the title, or if the image really is an abstract or not.
It's about immersing one's self in the works, sometimes with a bit of latitude, but just enjoying it for what it is.
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07/18/2007 07:23:38 AM · #61 |
Originally posted by Judi:
Originally posted by Borusa:
Originally posted by Simms:
LOL, Judi, even after all this time you are surprised with Real-world-photo-appreciation Vs DPC-voting-trends. |
Surely there's a difference. To sell a photo, you need one person to really really like it. To get a good score on DPC, you need a lot of people to quite like it.
Isn't the audience an important part of any artwork? |
This particular image has been shown on a 30 meter screen several times and purchased several times...does that equal a lot of people????? It is now 4.3! |
If thats the case Judi I'm sure you took the photo during the week of the challenge. hmmmmmmmmmmm |
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07/18/2007 07:30:06 AM · #62 |
Originally posted by Judi:
This particular image has been shown on a 30 meter screen several times and purchased several times...does that equal a lot of people????? It is now 4.3! |
Man - I would so love to get to a point where i was hitting that 4.3. Not just any 4.3, but that 4.3 that you have right there Judi. I would end up worrying so much less about the 200 here at DPC. Well, thats probably a load of doo doo. I would still get irked at the 200. But give me the 4.3 and the rewards they give you for a job well done over the 200 and a virtual ribbon anyday. |
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07/18/2007 07:32:09 AM · #63 |
Originally posted by Someamateur:
I'm beginning to hate these challenges.
In my honest opinion this is the best shot I have taken but is scoring like this. What a croc of shit.
Votes: 12
Views: 21
Avg Vote: 4.4167
Comments: 0
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 07/18/07 04:42 am |
What you think is great, and what the viewer thinks is great here on DPC is definetly relative.
Don't give up. Learn.
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07/18/2007 07:32:48 AM · #64 |
Originally posted by Judi:
I cannot believe this crap. I entered an image using no reflectors, flash or other electrical light. I have sold many images from this shoot to people already....and yet my score is a b****it 4.7 score...what gives? |
sorry to hear that.
U could always blame it on fotoman, for all we know he might be a black cat with a camera :)
hope things get better |
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07/18/2007 07:33:55 AM · #65 |
Originally posted by Someamateur:
If thats the case Judi I'm sure you took the photo during the week of the challenge. hmmmmmmmmmmm |
Trust me...I did. SC already have the original so ask them if you don't believe me. And while you are at it...ask them if the EXIF reads that a flash was used...as I am sure that is the reason for the crap score.
To give you an idea...from Thursday to Sunday I shot over 2100 photos for jobs. I had all of them processed and available to the clients by Monday night. I have been working on orders for the last 3 days. This photo was only one of those.
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07/18/2007 07:37:32 AM · #66 |
I'm doing well with my score, no comments, that's a bummer.
Was really hoping this one would knock one of my top images of my front page but it doens't look like it. Shame. I feel so narcissistic with almost all SPs as my top scores. |
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07/18/2007 07:41:45 AM · #67 |
Originally posted by Judi:
Originally posted by Someamateur:
If thats the case Judi I'm sure you took the photo during the week of the challenge. hmmmmmmmmmmm |
Trust me...I did. SC already have the original so ask them if you don't believe me. And while you are at it...ask them if the EXIF reads that a flash was used...as I am sure that is the reason for the crap score.
To give you an idea...from Thursday to Sunday I shot over 2100 photos for jobs. I had all of them processed and available to the clients by Monday night. I have been working on orders for the last 3 days. This photo was only one of those. |
Its OK Judi, I assume it wqould have been taken this week just wanted to see how you would react. I have read your profile and know what you do. |
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07/18/2007 07:42:15 AM · #68 |
Originally posted by Man_Called_Horse:
Don't give up. Learn. |
I am not sure if it has much with learning
or if I may rephrase the sentence " Don't give up. Adjust"
it kind of seems that there is a general taste on DPC and thous are the pictures that do well. it also seems that some photographers cracked that taste and that is why we see the same people winning over and over.
still in general (I admit not always)the top 10 photos are normally very good creative photography and that what makes DPC nice to be in.
Message edited by author 2007-07-18 07:43:41. |
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07/18/2007 07:53:05 AM · #69 |
Votes: 19
Views: 30
Avg Vote: 4.7368
Comments: 0
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 07/18/07 07:52 am
By the way I'm going up slowly. Restoring faith.........Slowly |
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07/18/2007 08:26:12 AM · #70 |
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07/18/2007 08:28:26 AM · #71 |
28 votes
6.03 score
Sigh. I was so disappointed in that I wasn't happy with a couple of the edits on my enry, so I re-did it. . .racing for time. The re-edit was so much better, I LOVED IT! But just as I hit "submit", rollover happened, and I missed it. So now, all I see are the flaws, and I have a feeling this is not going to end well for my portrait.
Oh well. . .it's like we've been saying, at the end of the day, people are paying me for my work, cuz they like it. . .so, an "also ran" score isn't going to kill me here, I guess.
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07/18/2007 08:37:08 AM · #72 |
Votes: 22
Views: 28
Avg Vote: 4.3182
Comments: 0
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 07/18/07 08:10 am
seriously i expected to have much better scoring than this. |
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07/18/2007 08:44:59 AM · #73 |
5.4 and going up with each update.
I have a feeling i'm going to get a lot of comments about how photoshopped my subjects features are, but that's how they actually look! |
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07/18/2007 08:56:39 AM · #74 |
Votes: 36
Views: 54
Avg Vote: 4.7500
Comments: 2
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 07/18/07 08:49 am
This is awesome.. My image is one of the first ones that I looooove & have submitted for a challenge, and someone actually commented that I shouldn't take offense, but can't I see how horrible it is.. lol..
OH well, maybe I'm blinded by my pregnancy hormones.. Yeah, that's it.. I'm unable to see the horribleness of my image due to the fact that I'm pregnant.. Shew, I knew there would be a good reason..:-P |
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07/18/2007 09:07:51 AM · #75 |
Votes: 34
Views: 44
Avg Vote: 5.7059
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