I just have one thing to say .... You DONT have to enter every Challenge. I just sat here for the last hour or two voteing on all the pictures for Newspaper, And i must say that a good 60-70% would never make it to print. A lot of people are posting nice pictures and giving them a crafty newspaper title. Witch cheapins the challenge. So please if you didnt get the perfect pic for the challenge dont enter. there will be plenty more challenges to enter.
No im not complaining on the picture taking because we all are learning how to take pictures. What i cant handle is people entering off topic pictures. Some pics in this challenge were KICK ASS but they did not fit the challenge. All im saying is that i would like to keep voting on all the pictures in a challenge buts its so hard when alot of them i have to give a bad mark because they dont fit.
maybe some people keep complete logs of all their thoughts down to the millisecond.
"Remember those two weeks you spent narating your own life?"
"I walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table. I looked with a grimace at the questionable meal Lois had placed in front of me. Of course I'd never tell her how disgusted I was with her cooking, but somehow I think she knew. Lois had always been full of energy and life, but lately I had begun to grow more aware of her aging. The bright, exuberant eyes that I had fallen in love with were now beginning to grow dull and listless with the long fatigue of a weary life [Lois punches Peter]... I awoke several hours later in a daze."
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I just wanted to bring up a point... If at first you think the photo isn't newspaper related, check to see if it would fit in a different section of a newspaper. Such as arts / entertainment; family; home / garden... etc etc.
In reply to the original post: (copied from a different thread)
I just wanted to bring up a point... If at first you think the photo isn't newspaper related, check to see if it would fit in a different section of a newspaper. Such as arts / entertainment; family; home / garden... etc etc.
Good point !
I have never in my intire lifetime (which is maybe not that long) seen a photo that was no way it would appear in some newspaper, there are all kinds of newspapers. When I first saw the name of this challenge I thought, woow, how about all the people how always complain about your shot not fitting the challenge, what will they do now.
So please if you didnt get the perfect pic for the challenge dont enter.
Are all your entries perfect?
Disturbs me a bit if someone thinks it proper for them to discourage others from entering just because the entry is not perfect by that persons standards. I think the idea here should be to encourage less-than-perfect entries. And to encourage voting and commenting by ALL.
I agree that the headlines are not great but the pictures are pretty good. I am taking into consideration that most people are not as experienced at writing headlines as they are at taking pictures. I am weighing my scores more heavily on the photo not the headline. The people that did a good job on both are obviously going to get much better scores from me.
I made the mistake of coming up with a "dramatic" headline (reaching WAY back to the high school newspaper and UIL contest days) that might save my mundane photo...but I don't think it's working! ;o)
my only point i was tring to make was that if the challenge was Dogs, Dont submit a picture of your Cat. I just feal that its 11pm only an hour brfor deadline and still no picture .... what to do? hmmmm ok ill take a picture of my car parked in the driveway and call it "Gas prices so high ... people are forced to take a buss to work." I am not discuraging people from enterting im just saying that its ok if you didnt get a picture for a challenge because there will be lots more to enter.
my only point i was tring to make was that if the challenge was Dogs, Dont submit a picture of your Cat. I just feal that its 11pm only an hour brfor deadline and still no picture .... what to do? hmmmm ok ill take a picture of my car parked in the driveway and call it "Gas prices so high ... people are forced to take a buss to work." I am not discuraging people from enterting im just saying that its ok if you didnt get a picture for a challenge because there will be lots more to enter.
I don't know...I am so addicted to this site. If I can't check my score every 10 minutes I don't know what I would do. I am going on vacation for a week with no computer. It's going to be weird. Although I will have my camera :-)
I must apologize for myself..I've made a mistake thinking the photo should be in black and white because of the newspapers having only black and white photos. In my case it is a real pity though..it's just that after all these topics of: you don't meet the challenge and so, I have become a bit frightened..it's like every way I go is the wrong way, so I thought last night: let's not send in the colour version, because then I will get low scores from people thinking it has to be B/W (imagine my surprise when I saw a whole lot of coloured photos!).
I know the challenge rules said it had to be in B/W, but I just got confused..
Lesson learned: next time I'll just do what I want to do without thinking what others would be thinking!
