this is really garbage. I wonder why you even thought of publishing it anywhere.
I forgive you for your rudeness since English is obviously not your first language.
i am sorry if it sounded rude.
About that photo
1. Subject matter - no idea what you wanted to shoot, it resembles garbage. if you wanted to say something esoteric then i missed it and you failed as a photographer.
2. composition - i could not see anything great with it, it is ordinary at the best. focus seems to be everywhere and not everywhere too.
3. post processing - this is the only thing in this photo, as if someone took garbage and beat a photo out of it. Anyway post processing itself is ordinary.
Yaa being away from dpc for around a year i forgot here i am supposed to lªªk other's a** as people are not used to honest reactions.
I know since you shoot it it is dear to you, but it is not great. Have a look at it after few months and try to think what i said.
ps: you have scored a ribbon here so you are not dud photog, just that this your experiment is very bad (my opinion)
You've just illustrated why people vote 1s and 10s on the same photos. Personally, I like the image.
I don't think anyone is asking that you "lªªk other's a**" - how about something constructive next time. Your comment was "garbage" because it contained no useful information in it to help the photographer understand what you believe could have made it better. No one says you have to like the photo but if your going to comment on it the least you could do is say something helpful.
Agreed Richard. However, it's possible one's style differs enough that 1x represents a different road. To be accepted there doesn't reflect "improvement" as much as "change". I'm not saying I have all the skill I need and I don't need to strive to improve. Harldy. But I'm getting the picture (quite clearly) that my style doesn't work at 1x. Instead of abandoning the progress I've made in the 3 years I've been here and trying to hop on the 1x express, I think I should just continue to progress along the road I've chosen.
De Sousa gave a name to my road. I am a "pop artist". 1x does not encourage pop art.
Very interesting observation that works if you insert "DPC" for "1x" for some of us. :-) Not implying that my work in particular is as good as Doc's (he makes money with his, for instance), but we do have some "artists" here who are VERY good and will never score well at DPC for the reasons Doc is having problems with 1x. I don't know if they have named their roads.
Agreed Richard. However, it's possible one's style differs enough that 1x represents a different road. To be accepted there doesn't reflect "improvement" as much as "change". I'm not saying I have all the skill I need and I don't need to strive to improve. Harldy. But I'm getting the picture (quite clearly) that my style doesn't work at 1x. Instead of abandoning the progress I've made in the 3 years I've been here and trying to hop on the 1x express, I think I should just continue to progress along the road I've chosen.
De Sousa gave a name to my road. I am a "pop artist". 1x does not encourage pop art.
Very interesting observation that works if you insert "DPC" for "1x" for some of us. :-) Not implying that my work in particular is as good as Doc's (he makes money with his, for instance), but we do have some "artists" here who are VERY good and will never score well at DPC for the reasons Doc is having problems with 1x. I don't know if they have named their roads.
Wait, he's making money off of his art? That means he's not an artist. Whew. For a second there I thought the world ended. :P
ROFL. I *just* saw that when I was browsing over there.
Like we say here, there's no accounting for taste. Though I do like the negative space and minimalistic approach in that one. :P
Wow... I'm definitely in the other camp on that shot; I LOVE it. Unless I'm badly mistaken, that's the tip of a church steeple penetrating a layer of low cloud or fog. I blew it up, and it seems to me I can see one of those "circles with a cross" you so often see on spires. Anyway, it's like a scene I have glimpsed before a couple of times, up to Vermont and New Hampshire. Makes me think of Robert Lowell's "Waking Early Sunday Morning":
...and vanishing spires
sticking up above the fog
like old, white china doorknobs, sad
slight, useless things to calm the mad.
Can't say I care for the title, but what the heck :-)
Oh the irony! This bares its soul yet you fail to see it. It has an unassuming presence, a quiet awe about it that I find compelling. You may see it as just another gloomy image but I actually find it rather positive. It looks lonely but begs for company, for conversation and that can't be too bad.
I've also seen several in member screening that showed up well after my submissions and have been published.
Someone said if you're a paying member your photo gets bumped to the head of the screening queue.
I believe that is true - but even for paying members it takes quite a while sometimes. But sometimes pictures do not go to member screening and are approved or rjected right away. I've tried both :)
Is there a way to know when a new week starts and the upload slots are available again (other than just looking every day)? I can't seem to find that info anywhere.
I've also seen several in member screening that showed up well after my submissions and have been published.
Someone said if you're a paying member your photo gets bumped to the head of the screening queue.
That was me that said that. I take that to mean you get the 1x screeners quicker, not necessarily the member screening.
I am pretty sure 2 of them made it to member screening. In fact, the last one I uplaoded just got rejected, with just under 50% on the screening popularity meter.
Is there a way to know when a new week starts and the upload slots are available again (other than just looking every day)? I can't seem to find that info anywhere.
I think it is exaclty one week from the time you posted the entry.
Is there a way to know when a new week starts and the upload slots are available again (other than just looking every day)? I can't seem to find that info anywhere.
I think it is exaclty one week from the time you posted the entry.
Oh the irony! This bares its soul yet you fail to see it. It has an unassuming presence, a quiet awe about it that I find compelling. You may see it as just another gloomy image but I actually find it rather positive. It looks lonely but begs for company, for conversation and that can't be too bad.
Many years ago I lived walking distance to the Rothko Chapel in Houston. It is on the campus of the University of St. Thomas. The chaple has several paintings my Mark Rothko hanging on the walls. The guest list reads like a who's who of international fame. Dalai Lama, Bishop Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, just to name a few, have all visited the chapel.
My parents and grand parents were in town one day, so I took them all there to see this. When we walked in there were several people there, some Americans and some Europeans. It's a relatively small structure with one main room. We walked in and looked around. All we saw were these huge black panels on the walls. I really wanted to see the art and couldn't figure out where it was. I asked the person standing there that looked like she worked there, where is the Rothko art?
She informed me that the big black panels ARE the Rothko art.
Now don't get me wrong, we are all educated people and have been to major art musuems and showings all over the world. I get abstract art as a vialble art genre, I don't always like it, but I get it. This was laughable.
My thought was that Rothko has pulled on over on the art world.
Oh the irony! This bares its soul yet you fail to see it. It has an unassuming presence, a quiet awe about it that I find compelling. You may see it as just another gloomy image but I actually find it rather positive. It looks lonely but begs for company, for conversation and that can't be too bad.
I probably shouldn't have given such a tone of derision. I was basically poking a bit of fun at the obvious disparity between a picture like this and my style. More opposite one could not likely get.
