@epescala
When I looked at number three in your outtakes, I could totally see Weston's work in your capture!
This one totally reminds me of the picture he took of his girl friend in the door way of his house...beautiful image!!
A completely crappy and unexpected score on my entry, doubt the outtakes would have fared much better. Looks like I shouldn't have tried to get as close to Weston's style and lighting as I did, seems like it was irrelevant in this challenge.
I didn't enter this challenge but loved voting on it. The overall quality was stunning. I did notice a very disturbing voting pattern though. All the nudes got exactly 12 1 votes. I find this kneejerk reaction appalling. Nudes were an major aspect of Weston's portfolio. People, if you don't understand art of see beyond your own silly prejudices then just move on.
@epescala
When I looked at number three in your outtakes, I could totally see Weston's work in your capture!
This one totally reminds me of the picture he took of his girl friend in the door way of his house...beautiful image!!
Thank you so much! Yeah, I think I might have picked the wrong one in the end... glad you like it! :)
I didn't enter this challenge but loved voting on it. The overall quality was stunning. I did notice a very disturbing voting pattern though. All the nudes got exactly 12 1 votes. I find this kneejerk reaction appalling. Nudes were an major aspect of Weston's portfolio. People, if you don't understand art of see beyond your own silly prejudices then just move on.
From the language in the pre-challenge thread, it was probably to be expected.
I didn't enter this challenge but loved voting on it. The overall quality was stunning. I did notice a very disturbing voting pattern though. All the nudes got exactly 12 1 votes. I find this kneejerk reaction appalling. Nudes were an major aspect of Weston's portfolio. People, if you don't understand art of see beyond your own silly prejudices then just move on.
I totally agree. And if they didn't bother to look at his style/subjects/lighting/etc to refrain from voting. Many photogs did a great job of creating Weston's style etc. but received very poor scores. this was not supposed to be a Free Study in B&W but an attempt to emulate someone's style. Very disappointed in those low voters.
I didn't enter this challenge but loved voting on it. The overall quality was stunning. I did notice a very disturbing voting pattern though. All the nudes got exactly 12 1 votes. I find this kneejerk reaction appalling. Nudes were an major aspect of Weston's portfolio. People, if you don't understand art of see beyond your own silly prejudices then just move on.
It wasn't just the nudes. Pretty much all the female portraits got hit hard including these:
I didn't enter this challenge but loved voting on it. The overall quality was stunning. I did notice a very disturbing voting pattern though. All the nudes got exactly 12 1 votes. I find this kneejerk reaction appalling. Nudes were an major aspect of Weston's portfolio. People, if you don't understand art of see beyond your own silly prejudices then just move on.
Ehhhh.... we've come to expect it ... the anti-nude votes have been around for a long time.
I was just proud to have the second highest nude :)
I just sent a ticket to SC. There is something fishy going on with the 11 "1" votes for most of the pictures of women......except one that didn't get any "1" votes but got more "10" votes than any photo in the top 10 in the challenge.
I just sent a ticket to SC. There is something fishy going on with the 11 "1" votes for most of the pictures of women......except one that didn't get any "1" votes but got more "10" votes than any photo in the top 10 in the challenge.
Thanks for noticing that disparity Karen! It appears the whole challenge should looked at carefully and if those 11 voters are "friends" of the photographer of that one nude image and all gave that one image a 10 and the others a 1, everything should be recalculated with all those voters scores deleted on every entry.
Thanks for noticing that disparity Karen! It appears the whole challenge should looked at carefully and if those 11 voters are "friends" of the photographer of that one nude image and all gave that one image a 10 and the others a 1, everything should be recalculated with all those voters scores deleted on every entry.
Can that actually happen? Has that been done before?
