FIRST PHOTO SUBMITTED, AND ALL I HEAR IS NOT FOCUSED, WELL MAYBE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY!!
TOUGH CROWD.
BUT THATS OK I CAN TAKE IT, EVEN THE BEATLES WERE TURNED DOWN BY DECCA AND WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.
LOOK FORWARD TO MORE ABUSE.
FIRST PHOTO SUBMITTED, AND ALL I HEAR IS NOT FOCUSED, WELL MAYBE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY!!
TOUGH CROWD.
BUT THATS OK I CAN TAKE IT, EVEN THE BEATLES WERE TURNED DOWN BY DECCA AND WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.
LOOK FORWARD TO MORE ABUSE.
I'm lost now- so if it is still a work in progress, you didn't mean it to be like that, so you seem to be agreeing with the comments you are complaining about.
Btw - the CAPS LOCK key is your friend, don't let it feel ignored.
Seabrook there is no reason to dis on the other entries just cause you are frustrated. To me your shot has poor lighting which is causing pixelation and your shot was blurry, not soft focus. Here is a sample of a tutorial on soft focus //www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=2 You will notice the difference. You will find here people like nice crisp shots, usually the artsier ones don't do as well. Stick around you will get an idea of what people like. Remember most of us are just average Joes with digi cams that come here to learn more about photography.
I didn't happen to comment on your photo originally, though looking at it I wouldn't say it was out of focus.
From the underexposed nature of the shot and the shot info you entered with a shutter speed at 1/8s at f3.5 @ ISO 100 I would say it is suffering from a lack of light and a lot of camera shake due to the long exposure time. So not out of focus, just blurry due to movement.
From your comments I can guess that this might have been intentional, but I'm not sure. Was it ?
Myabe you've been watching too many Danny Boyle movies recently and tried to borrow the camera techniques from that ?
Yikes. And more abuse you will get with that kind of attitude.
The good news: you'll learn what voters like. Blurry and underexposed shots do not do well here. The learning experience is there for the taking. Do with it what you will.
I didn't comment on the photo during the vote either. But if you are interested in my opinion on it, please read further... otherwise, just ignore this post...
Whether the softness of this image was created by motion blur, camera shake, or simple lack of focus doesn't really matter to me, because the softness of this particular images just doesn't make sense to me. Personally, I think it's a bad choice on a closeup view to have everything in it that soft. In my mind, the purpose of any closeup view is to highlight some particular (or all) detail in the image. All the detail in this image is lost in the blur.
I also don't like your choice of exposure. The tonal range is rather flat. The histogram on this photo probably doesn't have much at all in the highlight range.
The third issue for me is that is simply a 'weak' entry into a nude challenge IMO. Yes, the feet are 'unclothed' without a doubt :)
Finally, the yellow toenails just did not impress me at all.
You stated that the 'softness' was intentional so maybe an explanation of your intent would help the rest of us to understand your vision with this photo.
I don't believe we are try to say what you were thinking. The opinions expressed thus far are from seasoned photographers who know what they are looking at and can interpret it fairly well. We all grow with each challenge, hopefully, so take this as an opportunity to exam what works and doesn't work. You are free to submit your artistic work here, just remember that with a 5 second voter, if you don't wow 'em and give them a nice clean image, you'll get votes in the low 5's or worse.
People in the challenge are just making comments based on how they like the picture and what they think is wrong (or right) about the picture. Obviously they can't know what you "were thinking" or trying to accomplish.
So if you made the pic look that way on purpose, you should probably rethink the idea and maybe discard it in the future since most of the commenters don't like it.
I liked it and tbh found it hard to understand how it managed to come below a banana and a kitten in a nude challenge.. I thought the image had a sort of 'dreamyness' about it and, from the blue tones of the flesh and the striking nail colour, could see the colour balance had been changed..
If you get on too childishly here on this site or take offense cause people "don't get" your image, people just won't take you seriously and eventually will just ignore you. Take it from someone with first hand experience. ;) Cheers.
