>>vote for challenge 33 winner <<

Andy

joechiu - oh my gosh, we won!


adrian_k - here's grumpy


canonguy - can you feel it in your soul?


purified - frustration


digital faerie - fear


wxwax - grooving


mitchell - pride


luckyhack - rapture


spockling - pretty in pink


freeups - comosure

Andy

forgot to add:

finalists chosen by dan koyanagi (ch 32 winner) and me. dan and i matched on 8 of the choices.

landrum

Congrats to everyone...I had a VERY hard time deciding on this one!

lynnma

Congrats to everyone what a great turnout and some wonderful shots and for those of us who did'nt make it..

quick.. back to the camera it's Minimalism.. lets get to it

dkoyanagi

Great job everybody! thumb

ginger_55

I feel very minimal today. As in every muscle hurts, and I am dead tired. Am having a book sent from the main library on minimalism. Might feel better by then. This bird photography could kill someone like me who just turned 65.

Great finalists, really great

Great entrants in general. Slow to start but you all caming screaming to the finish line.


So MANY entrants! With a difficult subject, too.

See ya at your minimal threads,
ginger

DoctorIt

a couple great later entries. another great lot of finalists

FreeUps

Great entries! Good luck Grinners!

Mitchell

Andy, Andy, Andy

People will now start to think that the fix is in. How could you pick my shot as a finalist over all those other great entries!!!

Best of luck everyone!!

mitch

Mitchell

andy wrote:

forgot to add:

finalists chosen by dan koyanagi (ch 32 winner) and me. dan and i matched on 8 of the choices.

I think everyone here appreciates this bit of information.

aero-nut

Agreed. Very awsome turnout! On to the next one!:lift

Nee7x7

Nice Work, Everyone!
The competition just gets tighter and tighter! ...and Mitchell, your photo of the proud boy scout (your son?) with his trophy was really charming, so of course it belongs here!

Congrats to all...it was a very well rounded group of photos, and the subject certainly wasn't as easy as we first thought it would be!

Cheers!
~Nee

JamesJWeg

I found myself wishing that I could vote for more than one choice Some good shots there.

James.

lynnma

JamesJWeg wrote:

I found myself wishing that I could vote for more than one choice Some good shots there.

James.

Mitchell.. the boy scout "proud" shot was an absolute finalist.. could'nt mistake that emotion

dugmar

I have to be honest, "here's grumpy", "frustration" and "fear" look totally staged to me, so obvious that the emtions look almost overdone, therefore fake. Does anyone agree here? In "comosure" I'm not feeling any emotion at all coming from that. All great shots, nicely composed, but the emotions only look "real" in a few.

"can you feel it in your soul?" gets my vote for the one that nailed it on the head.

Doug

wxwax

dugmar wrote:

I have to be honest, stuff

Dude, the poll's still open. Maybe those comments would be better placed in the individual threads where these shots were first displayed.

dugmar

wxwax wrote:

Dude, the poll's still open. Maybe those comments would be better placed in the individual threads where these shots were first displayed.

My first deleted post! I'm so proud!

I would apologize if this thread didn't contain comments on individual photos, but it does, so I don't feel my post was out of line, so I won't.

-Dude

Andy

dugmar wrote:

My first deleted post! I'm so proud!

I would apologize if this thread didn't contain comments on individual photos, but it does, so I don't feel my post was out of line, so I won't.

-Dude

i guess that's becuase they were more congratulatory of the finalist. but in the end, you are right, it' probably not appropriate for any comments either way in this thread until the voting is close. no apologies necessary!

Andy

i have deleted posts that have comments about the finalists - so as not to influence voting, i'll leave them deleted until the voting closes, at which time i'll bring them back.

Andy

andy wrote:

i have deleted posts that have comments about the finalists - so as not to influence voting, i'll leave them deleted until the voting closes, at which time i'll bring them back.

restored.

digital faerie

dugmar wrote:

I have to be honest, "here's grumpy", "frustration" and "fear" look totally staged to me, so obvious that the emtions look almost overdone, therefore fake. Does anyone agree here? In "comosure" I'm not feeling any emotion at all coming from that. All great shots, nicely composed, but the emotions only look "real" in a few.

"can you feel it in your soul?" gets my vote for the one that nailed it on the head.

Doug

so....tell us how you really feel :lol4

Charlie Brown

damn dug, take the stick out and have a seat. whats the problem, is there really a need to badmouth other people or their shots? really dude, thats super weak.



charlie

adrian_k

oh no it wasn't
maybe you should try getting a four year old to fake an emotion. I can assure you it was not staged and that my daughter only pulls that face when the camera's pointed at her. If you care to dig out my original post you'll find some explanation.

On the other hand, whereas we have "no photoshop challenges", there was no "no staged scene" clause.

cheers,

dugmar wrote:

I have to be honest, "here's grumpy", "frustration" and "fear" look totally staged to me, so obvious that the emtions look almost overdone, therefore fake. Does anyone agree here? In "comosure" I'm not feeling any emotion at all coming from that. All great shots, nicely composed, but the emotions only look "real" in a few.

"can you feel it in your soul?" gets my vote for the one that nailed it on the head.

Doug

DoctorIt

Now now, everyone settle down a bit...

First, can everyone read Dug's post before flaming him? He didn't badmouth anyone (so chuck, maybe you should chill out before throwing out lewd comments). All he did was state his opinion in a pretty non aggressive way. One of the things people need to realize is that as this site continues to grow, we can't just always be "hey great shot", "nice work", we're here to learn and critisize/share opinions. Dug wasn't telling Adrian the shot was bad, just that it was not up his alley. I can sympathize, for example, I like street shooting much better than posed studio work... is there anything wrong with that?

I hope this place doesn't become "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it". We're not school kids.

wxwax

DoctorIt wrote:

Now now, everyone settle down a bit...

First, can everyone read Dug's post before flaming him? He didn't badmouth anyone (so chuck, maybe you should chill out before throwing out lewd comments). All he did was state his opinion in a pretty non aggressive way. One of the things people need to realize is that as this site continues to grow, we can't just always be "hey great shot", "nice work", we're here to learn and critisize/share opinions. Dug wasn't telling Adrian the shot was bad, just that it was not up his alley. I can sympathize, for example, I like street shooting much better than posed studio work... is there anything wrong with that?

I hope this place doesn't become "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it". We're not school kids.

Absolutely. And the place to say it is in the critique threads, where it isn't easy being as straightforward as Doug was, but where it's really valuable to the shooter.

Lucky Hack

DoctorIt wrote:

Now now, everyone settle down a bit...

First, can everyone read Dug's post before flaming him? He didn't badmouth anyone (so chuck, maybe you should chill out before throwing out lewd comments). All he did was state his opinion in a pretty non aggressive way. One of the things people need to realize is that as this site continues to grow, we can't just always be "hey great shot", "nice work", we're here to learn and critisize/share opinions. Dug wasn't telling Adrian the shot was bad, just that it was not up his alley. I can sympathize, for example, I like street shooting much better than posed studio work... is there anything wrong with that?

I hope this place doesn't become "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it". We're not school kids.

I agree. With that established, as the Ralph Nader of the contest I'd like to know what was missing from my entry I need feedback, and from here on out I am giving anyone permission to be brutally honest, (I wouldn't do the same unless someone asked) don't be shy, you don't even have to be polite, just be honest.

Also, it's obvious why the winner won, the photograph was amazing! I'm not suggesting that I should have won, I just didn't expect to end up dead last. (thank you to whoever that was that voted for me:D)

Was it a technical aspect of the photo?
Was it that no one can relate to the idea of rapture? (too esoteric?)
Does it look like this guy isn't in rapture?
Something else?

hoping this message finds you well -Ian

DoctorIt

Lucky Hack wrote:

I agree. With that established, as the Ralph Nader of the contest I'd like to know what was missing from my entry I need feedback, and from here on out I am giving anyone permission to be brutally honest, (I wouldn't do the same unless someone asked) don't be shy, you don't even have to be polite, just be honest.

Also, it's obvious why the winner won, the photograph was amazing! I'm not suggesting that I should have won, I just didn't expect to end up dead last. (thank you to whoever that was that voted for me:D)

Was it a technical aspect of the photo?
Was it that no one can relate to the idea of rapture? (too esoteric?)
Does it look like this guy isn't in rapture?
Something else?

hoping this message finds you well -Ian

Hey Ian, read waxy's above post (which I strongly agree with), then check your thread for comments on this shot. I'll leave you one over there.