>DSS #15 (Family or Strangers) Feedback

Greensquared

Hi guys! Another great round! :clap

The gallery is ready for you all to start giving eachother feedback here:
http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/6811595_a9n7K#438050120_DrzWK

Please, try to be as constructive as possible. It's what makes this community such an awesome place. :barb

All general comments, top tens, etc., can be placed in this thread.

Tango

sorry i didnt think of this before... feedback entered from "Pictureworks" is me, i know some of you know that, but fyi i will add my name to my comments next time!

Tango

Emily, on the first image (leaforte - Friends helping Strangers) i entered feedback that was meant for bigsky (the third image)...could you fix that for me?

Greensquared

AaronNelson wrote:

Emily, on the first image (leaforte - Friends helping Strangers) i entered feedback that was meant for bigsky (the third image)...could you fix that for me?

Done.

Greensquared

Here are a few general notes from Divamum:

I had to keep reminding myself that the theme was "Family and Strangers" rather than "relationships", but there's no doubt that the images with a really strong sense of a relationship in them had more impact on me. Sometimes that was interaction between the parties, but in a couple of cases it was the strong interaction between the subject and photographer which captured me. In most cases, the photograph told me a story, but still left me unanswered questions; the story was clear, but enough mystery was there to let me fill in the blanks with my own interpretation.

Several images kept me coming back to them and asking myself over and over WHY I wanted to include them; in the end, I'm not entirely sure I know the full answer, but I figure if I went back to them that many times then they obviously had enough of an impact on me to include!

There were several images that were very VERY "near misses" - I wish I could have included those but, alas, 10 is 10, and thus I had to leave some out that I really enjoyed.


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richtersl

What am I doing wrong?
I'm logged correctly into Dgrin with my user ID and password and when I make a comment in the gallery I show up as "challenges":

http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/6811595_a9n7K#439686713_vHHNr

Can someone please tell me what's happening? I'm using Firefox as my browser. :help

pyry

richtersl wrote:

I'm logged correctly into Dgrin with my user ID and password and when I make a comment in the gallery I show up as "challenges":

http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/6811595_a9n7K#439686713_vHHNr

Can someone please tell me what's happening? I'm using Firefox as my browser. :help

You need to be correctly logged into your Smugmug account. Sounds like you had the challenge login.

Greensquared

richtersl wrote:

I'm logged correctly into Dgrin with my user ID and password and when I make a comment in the gallery I show up as "challenges":

http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/6811595_a9n7K#439686713_vHHNr

Can someone please tell me what's happening? I'm using Firefox as my browser. :help

Linda, try signing out and back in, and remember to refresh the gallery.

richtersl

pyry wrote:

You need to be correctly logged into your Smugmug account. Sounds like you had the challenge login.

Thanks.

RobPetrullo

second time ive entered this contest and my photo is no where to be found on the poll or contest vote.

this is getting out of hand, another thing is you keep the submission period open for a week or longer and yet the voting is done in one day, just doesnt make sense

pyry

RobPetrullo wrote:

second time ive entered this contest and my photo is no where to be found on the poll or contest vote.

this is getting out of hand, another thing is you keep the submission period open for a week or longer and yet the voting is done in one day, just doesnt make sense

Your image has to pass through two judges to get to the poll. It's kind of like a final, not something that happens automatically.

Tango

RobPetrullo wrote:

second time ive entered this contest and my photo is no where to be found on the poll or contest vote.

this is getting out of hand, another thing is you keep the submission period open for a week or longer and yet the voting is done in one day, just doesnt make sense

this will help you.
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=101510

HoofClix

RobPetrullo wrote:

second time ive entered this contest and my photo is no where to be found on the poll or contest vote.

this is getting out of hand, another thing is you keep the submission period open for a week or longer and yet the voting is done in one day, just doesnt make sense

Well, you've a long way to go before you catch up with me. I've been in pretty much all of the LPS and Challenges, and my images only made it to the vote on maybe three tries. I can't tell you to learn exactly what I've learned here, but pretty much when I don't make it to the vote, it's because my image was either total $%&@, or the other entries were just that good, or both. Generally a group of photographers at all levels trying to help each other out. Mods are volunteers, and judges are the same.

Where'd you get "one day?" Entries are open for two weeks, usually close on a Monday, and polls stay open for pretty much 4 days.

DoctorIt

RobPetrullo wrote:

second time ive entered this contest and my photo is no where to be found on the poll or contest vote.

this is getting out of hand, another thing is you keep the submission period open for a week or longer and yet the voting is done in one day, just doesnt make sense

Rob, I'm sorry you are upset. However, it is obvious (even to other competitors) that your grasp of not only the rules, but the contest format itself is severely lacking.

We're happy to help, all you have to do is ask - but we really don't appreciate these curt posts of yours.

Share, ask, shoot.

thanks,

jwear

This image makes me feel that I'm the stranger here, voyeuristically peeking in on someone's private moment--not a comfortable feeling. The way the foreground plant slices across her body adds to the sense that this was a hastily snatched glance. If she were in a more flattering pose and the jumble of rocks were eliminated, the image would be stronger.

thank you for the feedback but one thing

I had to say something to the comment [not a comfortable feeling]

The theme was family or strangers -- the entries became relationship there was 3 shots that may have been strangers ?? My shot was not well done that said your comment about the rocks, etc., right on. Not a comfortable feeling -- then my shot worked. If I had posed her talked with her she would not be a stranger if it was a man reading a book would you be bothered.?

Halite

jwear wrote:

This image makes me feel that I'm the stranger here, voyeuristically peeking in on someone's private moment--not a comfortable feeling. The way the foreground plant slices across her body adds to the sense that this was a hastily snatched glance. If she were in a more flattering pose and the jumble of rocks were eliminated, the image would be stronger.

thank you for the feedback but one thing

I had to say something to the comment [not a comfortable feeling]

The theme was family or strangers -- the entries became relationship there was 3 shots that may have been strangers ?? My shot was not well done that said your comment about the rocks, etc., right on. Not a comfortable feeling -- then my shot worked. If I had posed her talked with her she would not be a stranger if it was a man reading a book would you be bothered.?

I did not mean the comment about discomfort as a negative criticism. I could've been more clear: your image puts the viewer in the position of a peeping tom very effectively, and so played very creatively with the theme of 'stranger'. So I liked your approach to the theme. I made the comments about the pose and rocks to point out how final image could've more strongly supported your concept for the image. I well understand the difficulty (impossibility?) of doing everything that in retrospect we might see as improving an image. But it still makes sense to point these things out nonetheless.

jwear

Halite wrote:

I did not mean the comment about discomfort as a negative criticism. I could've been more clear: your image puts the viewer in the position of a peeping tom very effectively, and so played very creatively with the theme of 'stranger'. So I liked your approach to the theme. I made the comments about the pose and rocks to point out how final image could've more strongly supported your concept for the image. I well understand the difficulty (impossibility?) of doing everything that in retrospect we might see as improving an image. But it still makes sense to point these things out nonetheless.[/quote

I should have pmed you, I took the one comment badly sorry Jeff

divamum

FWIW, I added feedback for all entries (and if any were missed it was an oversight not intentional, so please let me know!).

dlplumer

divamum wrote:

FWIW, I added feedback for all entries (and if any were missed it was an oversight not intentional, so please let me know!).

Thanks for running the show diva and for all the critiquing. Whatever happened to the results?

Greensquared

dlplumer wrote:

Thanks for running the show diva and for all the critiquing. Whatever happened to the results?

Oops...sorry, I missed manually closing it again (got carried away with real life). I'll have to start setting a reminder. :cry Hang tight...