On DPC the answer is not necessarily. An image can be good. And an image can meet the challenge. Sometimes both. A good score usually is given to those.
But the score is not a good indication of the quality of an image in a challenge situation. The reason why so many images that do "poorly" here go on to have a great life when shared elsewhere.
I think highly scoring images often meet my definition of 'good'. But there are also good images that don't score highly. (And there are occasional top ten scoring images that make me wonder what I am missing because I didn't think they were that 'good')
So to me, the answer to your question is not necessarily.
Images I take meet my definition of fun. I am working to improve their goodness.
I think highly scoring images often meet my definition of 'good'. But there are also good images that don't score highly. (And there are occasional top ten scoring images that make me wonder what I am missing because I didn't think they were that 'good')
So to me, the answer to your question is not necessarily.
Images I take meet my definition of fun. I am working to improve their goodness.
Is a DPC average score an accurate representation of how "good" a photo is?
Just stirring the pot a little. Thanks for indulging me.
First, define 'good' ;-)
Yep,
Can of worms for sure, but I am sure this has been beaten with a dead horse many times before, to which I think I am exhausted to even think about anymore. I just say F* it and then do what I want, how I want not caring how it scores. My last few weeks have been atrociously low with the last few challenges starting out at 1's, so whatever..LOL Bring it on
Having fun and exploring different options and keeping my mind open to shooting different things for the challenges keeps me motivated enough to say on this site along with the great people and friends I have made here. Just something I will never understand here at DPC on what consists of good photos and what people are looking for because tastes are so different here, when someone figures it out, please let me know then.
What score means "sublime" and what score means "meh"? Does the ratio of those two scores correspond to the ratio between sublime and meh? The highest possible ratio is 10:1. Does this ratio correspond to the ratio between Beethoven's Fifth Symphony conducted by von Karajan and Yo_Spiff's kazoo rendition of Camptown Races?
Then we get a FS winner like the current Magpie Ninja shot that just blows the competition away: No 1's, no 2's, no 3's, no 4's, and only three 5's... Just a stellar image, appreciated as better-than-average even by the folks who prefer other types of work than the sharp-nature genre :-)
Then we get a FS winner like the current Magpie Ninja shot that just blows the competition away: No 1's, no 2's, no 3's, no 4's, and only three 5's... Just a stellar image, appreciated as better-than-average even by the folks who prefer other types of work than the sharp-nature genre :-)
and a rain winner who gets a DPC blue and a posthumous blue.
Then we get a FS winner like the current Magpie Ninja shot that just blows the competition away: No 1's, no 2's, no 3's, no 4's, and only three 5's... Just a stellar image, appreciated as better-than-average even by the folks who prefer other types of work than the sharp-nature genre :-)
and a rain winner who gets a DPC blue and a posthumous blue.
Perhaps a slight tangent but I just went to look at my "Favorites" to try to choose one overall favorite image (slow day I guess). And I was unable to choose. I was also curious about why some images have so many / so few faves. The really interesting ones are the images that only I favorited ... kind of nice to see that we all have different taste sometimes.
