I had strongly considered this. It has strong personal impact for me. I didn't think it would meet with much more than a meh from the collective, however.
An outtake (come on, 'best of 2011', who has only 1 outtake?):
I feel my entry is a better photo, but I was worried (as the comments showed) that 800 pixels just isn't big enough to take in the image properly. Still, it's hard to argue with a 6.4, I think a lot of luck would have been needed to score higher than that with any other image I may have chosen.
Well I was pretty disappointed with my score...though happy it stayed above 6 (so not far from my average).
I thought it was my most artsy portrait of the year. Here's my entry:
I had a fair number of good landscapes, but my favorites were used in challenges, and I hadn't edited many more. In the last couple of hours, I started to chicken out of my portrait entry and looked for any that I thought stood out. For some reason I edited a Kaaterskill shot (even though I have so many of them), and in the end I really liked the way it looked 3d...enough to put it in.
BUT I messed up with the new uploader where you upload then submit, and it didn't go in. And before I could fix it, we rolled into the challenge
Here's that shot:
My alternative portrait, which I opted against, was this one.
Probably would have scored better with the Kaaterskill shot, but I messed up by doing it last minute.
Let me know what you think on each. Critical comments welcome of course. More importantly, what was "wrong" with my entry? I didn't get many negative comments, only scores!
I don't think so. Your entry is so much better than the landscape one. Last year I submitted an architecure image and got more or less the score you got this year - well, it is still one of my favorite images :)
I was drawn to the kayaks, of all the photos from 2011...
and the entry was
I think I made the right choice.
Hoped to get some critique from the sports photographers out there :).
Pre-voting phase, friends advised I enter one, or the other, of the outtakes. That was good advice. I changed my mind and entered the aspen color image because of threats in the forums by people who claimed they were going to vote lower on any image they had seen entered before in a challenge. Since my outtakes are similar to some of my best scoring images of the year, I feared retaliation. The forum information turned out to be wrong headed. Next time, I'll take the advice of friends, rather than the blather spewed in the forums.
And here is the less processed version I should have submitted if using this frame at all. It's still quite busy and might also have not done well. Despite a year of not getting out and shooting much, I expect I had other images I should have considered.
And here is the less processed version I should have submitted if using this frame at all. It's still quite busy and might also have not done well. Despite a year of not getting out and shooting much, I expect I had other images I should have considered.
I loved the processing in this image. I thought it was a great shot and prefer it over the less processed version
