how 'bout - Dude, find a homeless guy and give him your camera. He could maybe trade it for a ham sandwich and a bottle of cheap wine and make better use of it than you can!
how 'bout - Dude, find a homeless guy and give him your camera. He could maybe trade it for a ham sandwich and a bottle of cheap wine and make better use of it than you can!
OMG this is the funniest thread I have read. I am about to cry. "I don't like pictures of children or old people, your isn't of either but I still don't like it", man that is good stuff.
how 'bout - Dude, find a homeless guy and give him your camera. He could maybe trade it for a ham sandwich and a bottle of cheap wine and make better use of it than you can!
No no no. Whne you family tires of your non-stop chatter about things photographic, when your coworkers are ready to toss you out the window and no one will talk with you, you take a homeless guy to dinner and you have a captive audience! and you have done a good deed! (mcdonalds is fine).
It's not an original idea - I was at a McDonalds a few weeks ago when some college age missionary type was doing this with 2 homeless guys and then gave them a rowsing (or not) rendition of something biblical in nature.
I think you like your shot too much...clearly the masses tell the true story. Haven't you been here long enough to realize how these posts come off anyway?
I think you like your shot too much...clearly the masses tell the true story. Haven't you been here long enough to realize how these posts come off anyway?
had i hated the shot, i would not have entered it! So yes, i like my shot. We all like our shots- they are like our children - a creation we made, something we love and nurtured.
I don't really expect an 8 - history here shows only Icelanders and Kiwis get ribbons (well, 3/4 of them anyway LOL). But when the masses think it's not great, I just want a comment, or a few, that say so.
At least give me "Your image did not move me" for heavens sake. As it is I have comments like "Love IT!" "Great Bokeh, really works a 10!" and my score is 5.1 something - i feel like i am being lied to or something.
Okay, in teh bokeh challenge my wonderful ribbon-worthy entry, a truly magnificient piece of art, worthy of hanging in the National Gallery (of any country but Iceland) does not have a score of 7.5+ like it deserves.
Man, I hope yours' is not the one I voted a 10. ;)
It's the most creative I've seen in a while.
At least give me "Your image did not move me" for heavens sake. As it is I have comments like "Love IT!" "Great Bokeh, really works a 10!" and my score is 5.1 something - i feel like i am being lied to or something.
Then wouldn't asking after the challenge is over and you can post the image, for some additional feedback, make a bit more sense?
Anyway, there's an awful lot of hyperbole going around, I never put much faith in hyperbole.
Isn't hyperbole that annual screech-in where Americans round off their season of chicken-shit rugby where they all wear armour and stop every five minutes so some older man can tell them what to do?
Isn't hyperbole that annual screech-in where Americans round off their season of chicken-shit rugby where they all wear armour and stop every five minutes so some older man can tell them what to do?
"chicken shit" huh???? Chicken shit is what is paraded around the world at this time of year where grown men fall down and wail and trash about whenever someone touches them. Some actors could take lessons from some of these players...as could some of the olympic divers. :O)
Getting back on topic...As someone already suggested, you might consider posting your image post challenge to get a better appreciation of what people liked or disliked about your image.
Then wouldn't asking after the challenge is over and you can post the image, for some additional feedback, make a bit more sense?
Very few here will make strong, critical inciteful comments. During a challenge or afterwards.
I've seen images posted in threads - it makes me laugh at times cause it usually goes like this:
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I'd like some feedback on the portrait of my boss
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Great Image - love the color
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Wow, nice contrast. very sharp. what lens did you use?
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(and then i might post this...) there is a shadow on the left eye, there are double catchlights, a hot spot on the end of the nose, the pose seems a bit odd/stiff, like a mugshot more than a portrait
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then there are a few posts like this immediately after Yeah, double catchlights are distracting
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I don't like the shadow on the left eye
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people seem unable to speak up 'first' and say wha they think, or is it they don't think?
As the quote says in my profile, (taken form a DPC member)
"I personally receive a negative comment more seriously than I do a positive comment. Reason, most people tell you how great your work is even if it isn't true. They think they are offering encouragement to a budding artist, when in reality they are doing just the opposite. They are encouraging the artist to continue producing bad art. Maybe you seek only compliments, and that's fine, me, I seek honesty; I can handle the truth. " - Byron Gates, Jr.
(and it seems a few people have figure out - this thread is a tounge in cheek type of thing - called humor. But i guess that is like art, not everyone gets it. :)
Anyway, there's an awful lot of hyperbole going around, I never put much faith in hyperbole.
Isn't hyperbole that annual screech-in where Americans round off their season of chicken-shit rugby where they all wear armour and stop every five minutes so some older man can tell them what to do?
Hey watch it now - I'm from Pittsburgh! I'll have my quarterback hit you with his head!
Anyway, there's an awful lot of hyperbole going around, I never put much faith in hyperbole.
Isn't hyperbole that annual screech-in where Americans round off their season of chicken-shit rugby where they all wear armour and stop every five minutes so some older man can tell them what to do?
ROFLMAO. Totally agree with that.
... and the the proper 'football' is referred to as soccer in North America.
At least give me "Your image did not move me" for heavens sake. As it is I have comments like "Love IT!" "Great Bokeh, really works a 10!" and my score is 5.1 something - i feel like i am being lied to or something.
Well, as I said above I tried giving honest comments to shots I did not like.
If you don't savour hatemail, it is not a course of action I would recommend.
Håkon (still at 4.9, so at least I'm almost average)
