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10/05/2007 08:35:42 AM · #51 |
Votes: 101
Views: 152
Avg Vote: 4.9010
Comments: 4
Wow gone up a bit may as well make that a 5.0 yes peoples? Do we have a deal? Plllllllzzzzzzzzzzz its my 2nd worst!! arghhhh lol I'm upsettings |
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10/05/2007 08:37:21 AM · #52 |
Originally posted by PhotoInterest:
Originally posted by booboo_goon:
Originally posted by Donna21:
I probably shoulda just sat this one out. I've been up and down in the 4s - currently...
Votes: 50
Views: 72
Avg Vote: 4.3200
Comments: 1
I knew it was not a very sharp image, but that was because of the subject itself. I tried several different ideas (some of which I saw better executed in the thumbs, lol), but didn't really like any of my results. My submission was the best of a bad lot - I thought maybe because I was tired, I was being overly critical. Guess not. |
I'm on the same boat, should've stayed out!! I hated the themes for this week then did my 1 last minute...even I hate it now, thinking to myself WHAT WAS I THINKING?! lol
4.7 now... |
I'm sitting at a 4.8 right now and really thinking that I should have sat this one out too! I guess I took a different approach to this challenge. I saw something different and didn't take apart a circuit board to photograph it ;))! Mind you......I did do "stock"! I thought about it and I kept repeating to myself...stock, stock, stock. Guess that doesn't work either. :(
But, seeing all of these circuit board pieces now.....I just MAY dismantle both my computer and my camera shortly if my score doesn't bump up!!! ;)
Edited to actually spell words correctly and make sense. :0 |
HAHAHAHAHA why are the circuit boards doing that well?! =s
Mind you I hardly looked at the entries cuz I'm not so happy with mine lol might not even vote on it... |
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10/05/2007 09:53:23 AM · #53 |
Originally posted by booboo_goon:
HAHAHAHAHA why are the circuit boards doing that well?! =s
Mind you I hardly looked at the entries cuz I'm not so happy with mine lol might not even vote on it... |
AHEM... I beg to differ, lol.
You probably could lump mine in w/ "circuit boards" (it is electronics innards), and it is not doing well (although, like yours it is improving). Currently at 4.67. I thought it didn't look like most, and was very colorful, so maybe it could be appreciated here. Plus the shots I took of various local bridges were pretty ho-hum, and I wasn't sure DPC would buy Civil Engineering as "technology" (but I may have been wrong).
And I also haven't really looked at too many of the others (voted on 21% so far - vs. all the group portraits).
Message edited by author 2007-10-05 09:53:42. |
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10/05/2007 10:19:20 AM · #54 |
I thought I would have done better this time since I really spend time to think about what to shoot. But I guess mine is still not good enough. But I'm really getting some good comments, and I'm glad that someone out there likes my shot :)
Votes: 117
Views: 190
Avg Vote: 5.6838
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 10/05/07 10:10 am |
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10/05/2007 01:19:28 PM · #55 |
What I'm seeing in many photos in this challenge is that they don't communicate the idea of technology. I think the photo must speak by itself, and the viewer should feel technology when the photo is viewed.
I understand that some things like a building or a bridge, etc involve high technology to build them, but they don't communicate the theme very well. This is just my opinion...
What you all think? |
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10/05/2007 01:26:22 PM · #56 |
Originally posted by marcusvdt:
What I'm seeing in many photos in this challenge is that they don't communicate the idea of technology. I think the photo must speak by itself, and the viewer should feel technology when the photo is viewed.
I understand that some things like a building or a bridge, etc involve high technology to build them, but they don't communicate the theme very well. This is just my opinion...
What you all think? |
Exactly ! |
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10/05/2007 02:22:00 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by marcusvdt:
What I'm seeing in many photos in this challenge is that they don't communicate the idea of technology. I think the photo must speak by itself, and the viewer should feel technology when the photo is viewed.
I understand that some things like a building or a bridge, etc involve high technology to build them, but they don't communicate the theme very well. This is just my opinion...
What you all think? |
I think with a score of 5.6055 you've probably hit the mark "ok" with your shot. :) Of course you could be in the 'Group Portrait' challenge and not 'Technology'. :P
Congrats on entering your first challenge! |
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10/05/2007 03:01:03 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by marcusvdt:
What I'm seeing in many photos in this challenge is that they don't communicate the idea of technology. I think the photo must speak by itself, and the viewer should feel technology when the photo is viewed.
I understand that some things like a building or a bridge, etc involve high technology to build them, but they don't communicate the theme very well. This is just my opinion...
What you all think? |
As I can read into part of what you said - it depends on the viewer. I work w/ a lot of civil engineers, so when I see certain types of bridge or a complicated highway interchange, I "feel" the technology of it very strongly. But I didn't enter any of my bridge shots, for this very reason - I was not convinced that the "average voter" would feel the technology, too.
Also, there are a few shots (also not mine) in the challenge that feel like technology of past centuries, but the challenge isn't "Modern Technology" so why should those be considered DNMC? I accepted those as meeting the challenge (and bravely, lol) and voted based on how good the photography was.
In spite of my own submission, technology does not mean "electronics" or "futuristic" or "modern." |
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10/05/2007 03:06:20 PM · #59 |
Originally posted by Donna21:
... In spite of my own submission, technology does not mean "electronics" or "futuristic" or "modern." |
like this one second place of the first Tech challenge |
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10/05/2007 03:12:21 PM · #60 |
Originally posted by FocusPoint:
Originally posted by Donna21:
... In spite of my own submission, technology does not mean "electronics" or "futuristic" or "modern." |
like this one second place of the first Tech challenge |
I see you aren't the only one to go through the first Technolgy challenge. I noticed that also, the winners weren't neccessarily what you would have first thought of if someone would have said, "take a 'Technology' photo".
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10/05/2007 03:43:24 PM · #61 |
| The meaning of technology is very open to interpretation. A bow and arrow is high tech from a certain point of view. I have commented on a handful of photos where I thought they really were not about technology, but I rated them according to the quality of the photo itself. |
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10/05/2007 04:17:55 PM · #62 |
Yes, I agree technology is a wide subject. But, as someone said, we should target the average viewer of the photo. I don't like necessarily the obvious, but don't like also too wide interpretations. I'm speaking as a viewer since I'm just a beginner and I don't work with photography.
Regarding my score on the first challenge, I think my photo is just a beauty one and it is complying with the theme. My score can be just beginner's luck. Technically my photo has many defects, some of them could be fixed with software, complying with the advanced editing rules, other could be fixed with simple changes in the way I took the picture. Obviously I can see that only now, after some useful comments on it and after looking at it with more attention.
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10/06/2007 10:57:50 PM · #63 |
Votes: 144
Views: 245
Avg Vote: 5.6111
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Clawing Up. |
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10/07/2007 12:41:30 PM · #64 |
Originally posted by marcusvdt:
What I'm seeing in many photos in this challenge is that they don't communicate the idea of technology. I think the photo must speak by itself, and the viewer should feel technology when the photo is viewed.
I understand that some things like a building or a bridge, etc involve high technology to build them, but they don't communicate the theme very well. This is just my opinion...
What you all think? |
I guess that it all depends on each viewer's definition of "technology", doesn't it?
Personally, yes.....a circuit board, or the inner workings of something are truly "technology", but I think that those who recognized that technology stands behind everything that we have and do and also made some sort of statement with it, truly defined technology as it really is.
Unfortunately, those who did think "outside the LITERAL box" are going to suffer in this challenge. It's difficult to be totally literal, be technically 'perfect' AND still have a difference enough to emote the "WOW Factor" that voters are looking for in all challenges in here.
So, how many ways can a circuit board be lit differently or angled differently???? ;) From looking at this challenge.....ohhhhh.....I'd say about 100! ;) The only question left is......which one did it best?!
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10/07/2007 11:46:52 PM · #65 |
Wow, can't you feel the enthusiasm for this challenge? ;)
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10/07/2007 11:48:30 PM · #66 |
Hey, I'm excited and surprised that I'm getting this:
Votes: 139
Views: 235
Avg Vote: 5.7050
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 10/07/07 11:10 pm
For Fauna or Flora challenges, I expected to take some shots this weekend, but I couldn't. I will try to get something interesting... |
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10/08/2007 01:02:32 AM · #67 |
Originally posted by jdannels:
Votes: 100
Views: 158
Avg Vote: 6.2200
Comments: 3
bout the same |
Votes: 144
Views: 236
Avg Vote: 6.3750
Comments: 5
had a nice late jump! |
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10/08/2007 01:08:42 AM · #68 |
Votes: 157
Views: 250
Avg Vote: 6.3949
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1
Wish Lists: 0
Updated: 10/08/07 01:08 am |
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10/08/2007 09:32:30 PM · #69 |
Originally posted by marcusvdt:
What I'm seeing in many photos in this challenge is that they don't communicate the idea of technology. I think the photo must speak by itself, and the viewer should feel technology when the photo is viewed.
I understand that some things like a building or a bridge, etc involve high technology to build them, but they don't communicate the theme very well. This is just my opinion...
What you all think? |
Im voting on what makes me think technology. I also think that with the exception of certain older breakthroughs in technology, it should be something new and cutting edge.
Otherwise you could enter anything man made (a fork, a hat, a pencil, or a flag pole) and can claim that some technology is involved in all of those. |
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10/09/2007 12:29:45 AM · #70 |
Avg Vote: 6.4103
I hope this is my second ribbon in a month. I am not sure how low voted contest this will be or if this number would go up more, but I'm keeping my fingers cross for this one :) |
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10/09/2007 02:16:13 PM · #71 |
Originally posted by booboo_goon:
Votes: 101
Views: 152
Avg Vote: 4.9010
Comments: 4
Wow gone up a bit may as well make that a 5.0 yes peoples? Do we have a deal? Plllllllzzzzzzzzzzz its my 2nd worst!! arghhhh lol I'm upsettings |
5.0 it is! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!! HALLELLUJAH |
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10/09/2007 02:20:05 PM · #72 |
| I seem to be climbing a couple of 100ths. I suspect some folks are reviewing their ratings as we get close to the end. I ought to do the same. Don't think I'll make a 6, but I may at least get close. |
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10/09/2007 02:42:09 PM · #73 |
Between this and the searching challenge, I am on a roll...
Votes: 161
Views: 234
Avg Vote: 4.7702
Comments: 3
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10/09/2007 02:43:53 PM · #74 |
| just finished voting on this challenge, in my opinion very very weak and uninspiring, very snapshotty most of the time.. 2 clear ribboners in there, the rest are pretty so so. :( |
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10/09/2007 03:04:13 PM · #75 |
Originally posted by Simms:
just finished voting on this challenge, in my opinion very very weak and uninspiring, very snapshotty most of the time.. 2 clear ribboners in there, the rest are pretty so so. :( |
Can you tell us what are the ribboners in you opininon? |
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