I've stopped posting personal information and have removed all images except for challenge entries which must remain.
I'm uncomfortable with the amount of traffic to this site that simply scrapes data from what's publicly available. Probably common to any website nowadays, but I refuse to feed the bots and scrapers any more than I need to.
I've noticed 'Guests' from all over the world running automated data collection. Iran, Iraq, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Vietnam, Brazil, Japan, UAE, Singapore and others, are constantly parked here. Facebook and Google have permanent attachments. Various AI bots can also be found walking the various URL's of DPChallenge.
Data collection is not limited to just photos but also includes comments, favorites, forums, etc.
Yes, we are global and that's a good thing in general. My Flag Counter (on profile page) has 84 unique country visits thus far. This helps with diversity and uniqueness of entries and opinions, so my concern is not with who is visiting, but rather who is data collecting.
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Place: 19 out of 26 Avg (all users): 5.4545 Avg (participants): 5.4667 Avg (non-participants): 5.4444 Views since voting: 18 Views during voting: 41 Votes: 33 Comments: 3 Favorites: 0
Oops. I hadn't really expected follow-up comments from the forum thread to show up here. Thanks for taking a look.
I'm embarrassed to say that this photo was more of an outtake/shoehorn than one specifically shot for this challenge.
We happened to be at an interesting location, and I'd taken a handful of photos during our visit (including the one I used for Architecture - which WAS intentional).
I loosely based my 'go ahead and use it' criteria on the three primary groups of people. Do they match/balance to scale? No. I just found it interesting. Although, when I pulled this up on my calibrated monitor, I nearly gasped at how bad I'd mangled the post-processing on it using my laptop! :-}
I also agree with your assessment that a slight crop would have helped. A 5:4 ratio in place of the 4:3 ...
what do you stand to lose by letting those bots scrape your 'data' from this site? I think fighting data mining on the interwebs is futile as long as you are a participant in any of it, including your web-provided email. Every service provider you interact with is scraping data on you and selling it to the highest bidder. Your phone and your social media accounts are the main culprits. The simple fact of the matter is that you should not share anything electronically in any manner that you don't want anyone else to see or hear.
In regards to your forum post about the interpretation of the 'balance' topic...
The platform in your frame does a great job of splitting the frame into two equal halves, but *I* find a majority of the visual interest to be in the top half of the image. That being the case, the description of 'so that everything in the image has equal visual weight' is a miss for me. How do you interpret your approach to this challenge?
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