am I the only one who felt the subject matter did not make for very compelling shots?
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I haven't voted yet, but I take into account the difficulty of the subject when voting. I'm going into the voting process realizing that it's a lousy subject and not expecting anything wonderful. So hopefully I'll be surprised when voting.
am I the only one who felt the subject matter did not make for very compelling shots?
Funny thing that... I feel the same way about many of the images that people consider as prime examples of "Posthumous Images".
Ray
we should have coffee sometime...
I have actually been thinking about that lately when voting. One can almost pick out the 5-7 photos most likely to be called out for awards by the Posthumous thread. I stare at these photos a little longer than I might otherwise, trying to fathom what the maker had in mind (and usually questioning how this has anything to do with the challenge topic) but in general I still end up scoring them fairly low. When I later read in the thread the virtues of an image being discussed, I either figure they have a different aesthetic than I or it is some form of the Emperor's New Clothes effect going on.
am I the only one who felt the subject matter did not make for very compelling shots?
Funny thing that... I feel the same way about many of the images that people consider as prime examples of "Posthumous Images".
While I do earnestly consider some images as having redeemable values, a lot simply take up space and truly are not all that "compelling"
Ray
I think some people are trying too hard to get that posthumous honourable mention. Some people are trying very hard to be special. The result is an ironic morphing of an elusive and (to me) beautiful aesthetic into a kind of DPC pop culture mishmash of mediocrity. This kind of irony is very rare; let it continue.
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I don't feel like it, its quite lower than my overall average but i didn't go into the voting predjudiced. I was shocked at my avg given in this challenge, its why i posted that.
You have rated 121 of 121 images (100%) in this challenge.
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I don't feel like it, its quite lower than my overall average but i didn't go into the voting predjudiced. I was shocked at my avg given in this challenge, its why i posted that.
Seriously, thanks for voting honestly and not "protecting" your average. Cannot believe there are people here who 1, do that and 2. think it matters.
I enjoy pop music, but it can get grating after a while listening to the top 40, and rarely is there a truly great pop song. How they pick the Grammy winner escapes me, sometimes it is a very very good song, sometimes it is overproduced trash.
Jazz I sort of enjoy, but it sounds very much the same to my ear and while friends who love the stuff get thrilled by passages, the very lack of structure can make the same passages sound cacophonous to me. I assume if I studied the music I might find hidden depths, but I doubt I ever will.
To me Postumous winners are like jazz, ribbon winners are like pop. I like both, but they are very different sensibilities.
it is some form of the Emperor's New Clothes effect going on.
I kid you not I had the EXACT same thought today!!!
that's why posthumous ribbon images are so refreshing... there are too many people here with the same thoughts.
Really. I find many of the posthumous ribbon images to be the same, often I can't tell them apart.
Oh, but I find many of the ribbon winning images to be very repetitive in one aspect or another; it isn't that I cannot tell them apart but that they don't make that much of an impression on me, so that I am not inclined to distinguish the one from the other. Possibly other people feel the same way about the dead guy's wicked handouts which nonetheless showcase a much wider variety of often surprising photographic possibilities. For me they are a grand exploration: eye openers rather than eye poppers.
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