Eligible portrait? Please let me know.

Mitchell

This is my latest inutero portrait of my soon to be born daughter. Taken with a GE Accuscan 3D scanner and then photographed with my Nikon D70.
Are ultrasounds eligible??

Mitch

John Mueller

Mitchell wrote:

This is my latest inutero portrait of my soon to be born daughter. Taken with a GE Accuscan 3D scanner and then photographed with my Nikon D70.
Are ultrasounds eligible??

Mitch

WOW,I see a face of a grown person in the ultra.

Bodwick

Mitchell wrote:

This is my latest inutero portrait of my soon to be born daughter. Taken with a GE Accuscan 3D scanner and then photographed with my Nikon D70.
Are ultrasounds eligible??

Mitch

Looks a bit like a tattoo....Great image.....

Stan

Bodwick wrote:

Looks a bit like a tattoo....Great image.....

Bodwick, not seen you for along while, good to see you back.

Surely that will be like a scan of a pic... not sure

Bodwick

Stan wrote:

Bodwick, not seen you for along while, good to see you back.

Surely that will be like a scan of a pic... not sure

Hi Stan,

I don't post a great deal but do keep up with whats what on site..... I'm allways happy to have a good laugh at Fish's foto's

It would be classed as a scan or a picture of a picture. Just caught my eye as MHJS said it looks like an adult face and for me like many tattoos I've seen..


Bod.

Mitchell

Bodwick wrote:

Hi Stan,

I don't post a great deal but do keep up with whats what on site..... I'm allways happy to have a good laugh at Fish's foto's

It would be classed as a scan or a picture of a picture. Just caught my eye as MHJS said it looks like an adult face and for me like many tattoos I've seen..


Bod.

Actually, I took a picture of the picture printed from the ultrasound machine. I guess this was either not allowed, or the picture was not up to snuff for the contest.

mitch

cmr164

Mitchell wrote:

Actually, I took a picture of the picture printed from the ultrasound machine. I guess this was either not allowed, or the picture was not up to snuff for the contest.

mitch

I thought 5 of the chosen finalists were just very good snapshots and that yours was actual art. Maybe not a winner and maybe having some technical issues but deserving a chance. But I disagree with Andy on his prescreening enough that I tend to regard the process as seriously flawed. I like to participate, to critique folks and to be critiqued, but I am not submitting images nor am I voting. To me the value is there but it is in the discussion and learning before the prescreening. I am really glad that Fish started the challenges and I certainly apreciate the work and organization that Andy has done after taking over. He does hard work. I also recognise the issues involved in prescreening. I just chose to opt-out of the part i do not like.

Mitchell

cmr164 wrote:

I thought 5 of the chosen finalists were just very good snapshots and that yours was actual art. Maybe not a winner and maybe having some technical issues but deserving a chance. But I disagree with Andy on his prescreening enough that I tend to regard the process as seriously flawed. I like to participate, to critique folks and to be critiqued, but I am not submitting images nor am I voting. To me the value is there but it is in the discussion and learning before the prescreening. I am really glad that Fish started the challenges and I certainly apreciate the work and organization that Andy has done after taking over. He does hard work. I also recognise the issues involved in prescreening. I just chose to opt-out of the part i do not like.

Charles,
Thanks for your kind comments regarding my submission. I really submitteted it as a lark because I thought it was an interesting ultrasound portrait and wanted to share it with the people on this site who I thought would appreciate the image. I commend Andy for his hard work with these challenges. Personally, I found most of the pet entries more compelling than the portraits of people!
I think you are missing the value of these challenges. For me, they compel me to take pictures of things I normally would not. They also force me to think outside the box which helps me with my creativity. My last entry was probably the best photograph I've ever taken. I walked around my house with a prism in my hand for several hours before I finally took a picture that I liked!! My wife thought I was nuts, but I was proud of my picture. I was beaming when I was selected as a finalist. I even checked the site while I was on a cruise to see if I was selected! ($.50/minute internet access).

mitch

cmr164

Mitchell wrote:

Charles,
Thanks for your kind comments regarding my submission. I really submitteted it as a lark because I thought it was an interesting ultrasound portrait and wanted to share it with the people on this site who I thought would appreciate the image. I commend Andy for his hard work with these challenges. Personally, I found most of the pet entries more compelling than the portraits of people!

Ain't that the truth. Portraits are difficult and the challenge was a good topic to stretch all of us.

Mitchell wrote:

I think you are missing the value of these challenges. For me, they compel me to take pictures of things I normally would not. They also force me to think outside the box which helps me with my creativity. My last entry was probably the best photograph I've ever taken. I walked around my house with a prism in my hand for several hours before I finally took a picture that I liked!! My wife thought I was nuts, but I was proud of my picture. I was beaming when I was selected as a finalist. I even checked the site while I was on a cruise to see if I was selected! ($.50/minute internet access).

mitch

That is exactly the part that I treasure, the learning, the effort, the stretching. It is just, at the end of the day, the prescreening takes away all the value of the voting for me. I embrace and really like the part that I do find valuable. I am not the only one who feels this way, just the only one who doesn't care about the socialdisapprobation caused by mentioning it.