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07/19/2006 07:54:00 AM · #1
Here is the photo that I entered into the progress challenge.



I'll be the first to say that it did not deserve any of the 10's, 9's, or 8's that it got. But what upsets me is that i got 94 votes of 3 or under. I would have to assume that this is because people assume that I didn't meet the challenge (only because of the one comment that strictly said "it has a personal meaning?" I'm rather curious as to the explanation of how the photo does not meet the challenge. Anyone who's seen a bathroom should understand how many tiles and how much work it takes to get to the point where you are tiling up the handles. So please...please explain to me why you would give this photo a 1, 2, or 3?
07/19/2006 07:57:58 AM · #2
I'll be the first... I gave you a 4 (sorry). While techically it was nice, and I felt it met the challenge, the subject matter just wasn't interesting to me personally. That's why I scored it the way I did. I do like the angle and the b/w conversion was nice.
07/19/2006 08:05:07 AM · #3
The position of the model's hands is awkward, and makes it somewhat difficult to figure out what is going on in the picture. In terms of content, the majority of people here may not have ever tiled a bathroom, so like me, the progress made went over their heads.

Not a bad shot, and not a brown-ribbon score - keep this experience in mind and go kick butt in the next challenge :-)
07/19/2006 08:06:09 AM · #4
I scored it a five. I thought it met the challenge very well, but I thought the frame felt crowded. Shooting from a lower vantage point may have helped also imho.
07/19/2006 08:30:11 AM · #5
I'd like to thank you guys so far for your honesty. I appreciate it.

As for his hands, I did get a couple of comments who thought he was holding his nose. He was actually holding one of the knobs in place as he was tiling. It was hard to change angles because there were doing real tiling and there was another person in the room helping...I didn't really want to interupt what they were doing too much.

One of the things I did try to do is have the tiling that was done in the top of the photo progressing down to the unfinished parts in bottom left of the photo. Guess that didn't really help.

Message edited by author 2006-07-19 09:41:48.
07/19/2006 09:02:35 AM · #6
"holding his knows"
Does that mean he's not sharing his knowledge?
Just joking. ;)
07/19/2006 09:11:27 AM · #7
I voted it a 5, thought it neither a bad nor a good shot but not for a second did it cross my mind it didnĀ“t meet the challenge, I even thought of shooting some kind of industrial acts, like someone using a hammer or a saw or some sort for this challenge.
07/19/2006 09:23:36 AM · #8
I gave it a 4...it looked like a snapshot to me...lighting was harsh and the pose was not interesting...it wasn't a tiling competition, cause he might have won that, it was a photography challenge...just being honest
07/19/2006 11:54:49 AM · #9
bump
07/19/2006 12:16:31 PM · #10
Didn't vote...maybe the close "crop" hurt the score and the voters' perception of progress. It's clear that the guy is tiling a bath area, but there's little sense of the progress he's made. How much has he done, what's left to do? - are two questions that might have been anwered with the pic taken with wider angle. And the left hand is not placed in a way that it helps the photo.



compare to "one stick at a time" - red ribbon - besides being an awesome capture, the wider angle gives a sense of the "progress" made by the bird.

Josh

07/19/2006 12:23:45 PM · #11
I didn't vote, but I've redone a bathroom before. I picked up on the progress as soon as I saw it. Like someone else said though, it's a very crowded photo. In trying to show the progress, you really needed a more expansive (no, not expensive) view. The photo sort of made it look like an evening project that could have been done in an hour or two. Probably you didn't have the room or angle, but if you could have backed up and shown a lot more tiles in place, and a little corner left to finish, it would have probably done a little better.

Don't take it too bad about those that say it doesn't meet challenge. Grab hold of the advice people give you and move on. You can't get better (or know what's wrong) if you don't ask. So IMO, you're one step ahead of those who never care what's wrong with their photos.

Good luck with your next challenge.
07/19/2006 01:02:46 PM · #12
I was responsible for one of your 3s. The reason is that i don't really care for the tiles that Steve has chosen. ; )

Not really - meeting the challenge is something that is not black or white: you can meet the challenge weakly or strongly, or anything in between. I thought that this meets the challenge but only weakly.

You may also have fallen into the trap of thinking that you must meet the challenge at the expense of everything else - don't forget that you are also trying to take a great photograph. For the reasons others have stated, I don't think that this photograph is great.

If I may be so bold (and in the spirit of trying to be helpful), this is a criticism that could be levelled at several of your entries: you meet the challenge with your subject matter, often really well, but do not manage to capture it in a photographically appealing way. For example, in your "success" image, you have a great subject matter - really well chosen. However, you break a whole load of compositional guidelines (eg rule of thirds, avoiding distractions), and failed to take advantage of established ways to make your image more interesting (eg change your viewpoint by kneeling, try and find good light). This place is good for learning - I would really recommend looking through a few of the tutorials on the site and seeing whether consciously following some of the guidelines works for you.

Good luck with your next challenge entry!

Message edited by author 2006-07-19 13:03:30.
07/19/2006 03:46:02 PM · #13
Thank you....I can take low scores for technical aspects. DNMC always pisses me off, unless I just completely missed the challenge. DNMC makes you strive harder to meet the challenge and take worse photos than you normally would. Technical aspects make you better.

Legalbeagle - the one thing that voters didn't see is that in the comment section I put that it was a candid shot for my success photo...the guy just graduated college five minutes before, i wasn't going to make him pose....rather make him drink haha.
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