What's in a name? - DPChallenge Forums

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07/18/2006 11:11:22 PM · #2

A name doesn't usually make me vote higher but if the name doesn't seem to fit the image it will count against the image in my voting. Names that try to explain a photo turn me off.

Lots of the same item can get boring. I'm not looking forward to lots of sunsets in the gold challenge ;)

ohanapics

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 I

07/19/2006 06:57:43 PM · #3

I try to judge the photo on it's own without including the title in my judgement. But the title does give me an idea of the photographer's intent, and if he/she is off base from what I think they were trying to accomplish then I will point that out.

jusdino4it

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

07/19/2006 07:19:39 PM · #4

Yeah...I keep getting comments on my most rescent submission about my name...I just come up with it on the spot when I upload...This is a photo contest not a nameing contest.

Tim

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G

07/19/2006 07:28:03 PM · #5

there is an "untitled" image on the front page at the moment! So the title didn't seem to effect the voters too much there.

- although you could debate that that is in fact a title. I really dont usually care about the title of a photo but I have been known to give an extra mark to a witty title.

It depends on the type of challenge - if its a technical challenge, or open to interpretation type of challenge then the title barely matters - but for a challenge like the recent "sayings and cliches" then the title is very important

amandalore

Canon EOS-40D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

07/19/2006 07:47:00 PM · #6

haha, before you know it, I'm gonna start being recognized because I am my only model, well, there's Dave, but who wants to look at him? lol, JUST JOKING if you read this Dave!!

Anyway, back to titles, I know that titles definitely affect my voting (usually not more than a point), I look at the image and then catch a glimsp of the title. Boring titles I skip over and just vote on the picture, clever titles up my vote and titles that try to explain, either get a worse vote or a simpathy vote depending... weird ones that I can't figure out what the blank the person was thinking usually don't fare too well with me, so I try to not let that sway my vote. And sometimes I see something in the pic that meets the challenge to me and then notice a title that seems to explain that they were trying to fit the pic in the challenge some other way that I don't feel meets the challenge very well... that's never good, lol

So I guess it just depends... Point being that it's better to have a boring title than a dumb one : )

_eug

Nikon D50

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

07/19/2006 09:07:41 PM · #7

Originally posted by amandalore:

haha, before you know it, I'm gonna start being recognized because I am my only model...

And how in the world did I miss your Single Light Source entry? And you're on my watch list and everything! Great TITLE by the way...

07/20/2006 12:46:02 AM · #8

Two messages that contain personal attacks have been hidden. Please refrain from these personal attacks. It's a personal attack even when the person referred to is not mentioned by name.

07/20/2006 12:47:21 AM · #9

What'd I miss? Was it Honyak?

07/20/2006 12:48:25 AM · #10

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

What'd I miss? Was it Honyak?

What's "Honyak"?

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07/20/2006 01:02:29 AM · #11

?????????

amandalore

Canon EOS-40D

07/20/2006 01:03:36 AM · #12

Originally posted by _eug:

Originally posted by amandalore:
haha, before you know it, I'm gonna start being recognized because I am my only model...

And how in the world did I miss your Single Light Source entry? And you're on my watch list and everything! Great TITLE by the way...

yeah, I couldn't think of anything else, I figured everyone else would just skip over it like I do, lol...

(guess I missed the attacking too, made my heart jump, thought ursula was talking about me, but then I realized that my post is still there)

07/20/2006 01:11:24 AM · #13

Originally posted by ursula:

What's "Honyak"?

I dunno. Ask taterbug. He used it in this thread and I found it kinda catchy. Maybe it's something you use like "some Honyak cut me off on the freeway!" or "I'm not gonna let some Honyak tell me how to edit my pictures!" or maybe it's tater's cousin, Honyak, who immigrated from some former soviet country.

07/20/2006 01:12:49 AM · #14

Yeah, well, it's late and I probably shouldn't have hidden those two posts. I don't know. I think people should be able to say what they think freely without others interfering, but when things get personal then it's hard to know what to do.

Oh well.

For myself, I hate being a "cop" of sorts, it's just not my way. I think I'll quit for tonight.

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07/20/2006 01:15:05 AM · #15

Originally posted by amandalore:

(guess I missed the attacking too, made my heart jump, thought ursula was talking about me, but then I realized that my post is still there)

Sorry :)

amandalore

Canon EOS-40D

07/20/2006 01:16:18 AM · #16

it's ok! : }

07/20/2006 01:17:03 AM · #17

There is a thin line between post-hiding and village-burning. Welcome, Ursula. ;)

07/20/2006 01:18:26 AM · #18

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

There is a thin line between post-hiding and village-burning. Welcome, Ursula. ;)

Yeah, there is. Oh well. I like "Honyak", sounds like a good name for a cat.

07/20/2006 01:19:46 AM · #19

Originally posted by ursula:

Yeah, there is. Oh well. I like "Honyak", sounds like a good name for a cat.

Good idea! ...or if Honda and Pontiac merged....

07/20/2006 01:24:41 AM · #20

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Originally posted by ursula:
What's "Honyak"?

I dunno. Ask taterbug. He used it in this thread and I found it kinda catchy. Maybe it's something you use like "some Honyak cut me off on the freeway!" or "I'm not gonna let some Honyak tell me how to edit my pictures!" or maybe it's tater's cousin, Honyak, who immigrated from some former soviet country.

Yeah, you got the gist of it Ken :-) It's a pretty much catch all name for that sort of thing, pretty much, just like it sounds. My mom always used it. She always told us it was an old yiddish expression. I don't know where she got it, she was pennsylvania dutch ??? hmmm, funny, cause she always lived in michigan. ?? Maybe she made it up. No, I think I recall actually running into someone in the Navy that knew the word too. I don't recall where they were from though. Probably not montana, I don't think I ever ran into anyone from montana in the navy. Nor Idaho, which I have never believed exists. I think the whole potato thing is some kind of government cover up. And....before someone chimes in saying that they ARE from Idaho, sorry, I can only believe that you are part of the conspiracy. (nothing personal, though) I did meet a cool guy from Wyoming once. I don't remember his name though, but I think he had red hair.

....man, I am such a HONYAK!!!
:-)

07/20/2006 01:30:42 AM · #21

Honyak is not a totally new piece of terminology for the site :-)

see here
and here
and yet again here

go ahead, try a forum search of 'honyak'
:-P

07/20/2006 01:32:12 AM · #22

Originally posted by taterbug:

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Originally posted by ursula:
What's "Honyak"?

I dunno. Ask taterbug. He used it in this thread and I found it kinda catchy. Maybe it's something you use like "some Honyak cut me off on the freeway!" or "I'm not gonna let some Honyak tell me how to edit my pictures!" or maybe it's tater's cousin, Honyak, who immigrated from some former soviet country.

Yeah, you got the gist of it Ken :-) It's a pretty much catch all name for that sort of thing, pretty much, just like it sounds. My mom always used it. She always told us it was an old yiddish expression. I don't know where she got it, she was pennsylvania dutch ??? hmmm, funny, cause she always lived in michigan. ?? Maybe she made it up. No, I think I recall actually running into someone in the Navy that knew the word too. I don't recall where they were from though. Probably not montana, I don't think I ever ran into anyone from montana in the navy. Nor Idaho, which I have never believed exists. I think the whole potato thing is some kind of government cover up. And....before someone chimes in saying that they ARE from Idaho, sorry, I can only believe that you are part of the conspiracy. (nothing personal, though) I did meet a cool guy from Wyoming once. I don't remember his name though, but I think he had red hair.

....man, I am such a HONYAK!!!
:-)

ROFL!
I grew up in Moscow, by the way. ...Moscow, Idaho, that is. Lived there til age 8. It either exists or I am just some Honyak who was raised in the Soviet Union and brainwashed into believing I am an Amerikan.

07/20/2006 01:35:44 AM · #23

Originally posted by taterbug:

Honyak is not a totally new piece of terminology for the site :-)

I see. But those posts are all yours. I believe you made up this "Honyak" character and YOU are part of a government conspiracy. I did a little investigating of my own...

07/20/2006 01:37:47 AM · #24

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

hmm, you Ken???? Definitely HONYAK !!! ;-)