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04/18/2007 05:26:46 AM |
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04/17/2007 12:10:56 PM |
Well, I guess I agree with most of what Konador said below... it does look a little over-sharpened, but still, this is really cool! It's an everday object in a new and interesting perspective.
As for the crazy score...I can just as easily picture this in the 6.0 range or in the 5.0 range. I can NEVER figure out what the DPC voters are going to like! The only theory I can come up with is this: if I personally like a photo, it will score horribly. :) |
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04/08/2007 09:11:18 PM |
Posted this in the forums but putting it here too for future reference :)
I'm not being horrible or anything, just saying why in my opinion it didn't score well. You asked :)
Firstly the subject isn't very interesting to me. I see zips every day. It's closer than I normally see one, but other than that there's nothing unique about it. There is no interesting lighting and just the one element in the whole frame. It also seems overly contrasty to me, and that makes the patterns in the denim hard to look at, it hurts my eyes after a while. Also, it's not sharp, it looks like you may have tried to sharpen it on the wrong radius which could explain the contrastyness too. The angle is flat on and the composition is centered, no interest really added there. To be very honest I would have scored it a 3 or 4. There's just nothing to it that makes me want to vote higher.
I think it probably did well on the smaller site because, just as was the case on DPC in the very early days, people not exposed to as much photography as we are here may see it and think "wow, that's really close!" or something, I dunno. Here, most people have probably taken the same shot,I know I have... "Hmm, I've got my macro lens on, now what?" I look down... "Ah ha!".
Also don't forget that it was in a free study. People expect much more in them and there was much much much higher competition than normal. That would also have something to do with it.
Sorry if I sound mean here, just trying to say it how I see it, rather than sugar coating it :) |
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04/07/2007 11:49:03 PM |
| Tremendous texture and tonal range, cool. |
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04/06/2007 03:55:52 PM |
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04/05/2007 05:39:26 PM |
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04/03/2007 09:10:51 AM |
| Nice macro shot. The angle of the photo makes it more interesting with nice contrasting colors. |
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04/02/2007 06:48:53 PM |
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two now and I'm running late, sorry.
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04/01/2007 01:44:53 AM |
| Nice capture - Nice colours. |
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