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10/22/2002 10:36:57 AM · #1 |
| I noticed many submissions in this challenge are leaning to the abstract, so perhaps it would be interesting to have an abstract challege where the veiwer cannot tell for certain what they are looking at. |
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10/22/2002 10:41:42 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by Gracechild7:
I noticed many submissions in this challenge are leaning to the abstract, so perhaps it would be interesting to have an abstract challege where the veiwer cannot tell for certain what they are looking at.
Voters don't seem to like not knowning what the subject is. (at least
that was mostly what the comments I got on my 'garbage' entry were
about)
Something I've been trying to do lately is avoid the first two most
obvious questions that pop into my head when looking at a photograh.
1/ What is it?
2/ How was a particular technique achieved?
instead I'm trying to start at the third question
3/ What feelings/ emotions does it invoke, or what do I see in it?
Its difficult! |
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10/22/2002 10:43:06 AM · #3 |
I'm up for that. I love abstract images and I've always thought it would make a great challenge here. I agree with Gordon that many voters here feel uncomfortable when they can't tell what it is they're looking at, but if it was a whole challenge every picture would (should) be like that so the voting would (should) even out.
* This message has been edited by the author on 10/22/2002 2:44:09 PM.
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10/22/2002 04:56:06 PM · #4 |
i personally enjoy abstraction more.
plus, i've had a little practice with subject matter, and (suprisingly) effects that are legal here...
i'm up for it. maybe i'll finally submit a picture. lol.
* This message has been edited by the author on 10/22/2002 8:54:19 PM. |
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10/22/2002 09:41:30 PM · #5 |
| My first choice for the "garbage" challenge was an abstract. but I get slammed for not being obvious when I do reality stuff! An Abstract challenge might be hard. We'd have to argue all week over the meaning of abstract, and then accept votes from people telling us that they gave us a 1 (I'm sorry, the 1 voters don't comment, do they?) because the subject wasn't clear. |
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10/22/2002 10:52:19 PM · #6 |
I doubt it, i'll bet the highest scores goes to the stuff that people automatically recognizes without having to think about it -- which makes it not abstract at all.
Originally posted by greenem2:
I'm up for that. I love abstract images and I've always thought it would make a great challenge here. I agree with Gordon that many voters here feel uncomfortable when they can't tell what it is they're looking at, but if it was a whole challenge every picture would (should) be like that so the voting would (should) even out.
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10/22/2002 11:13:47 PM · #7 |
Many abstract photos are macros, and so I think the people without a good macro mode on their camera could be a bit hindered in an abstract challenge.
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10/22/2002 11:47:49 PM · #8 |
says who?
the reason i became interested in digital photography was that most of the lower level point and shoot type cameras are really horrible up close.
i found the artifical fuzziness, and the jpeg/magnification artifacts really interesting.
i use a digital camera for two reasons:
1. ease of getting images into my computer (no scanning)
2. for stuff i couldn't do manually, with an analog camera, and just scan in later.
it's hard to explain what i mean. but i hope to be able to submit an example at some point in the future.
and about voting on not easily recognized things? so far i've given almost all of the more abstract ones i've run into a 10. |
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10/23/2002 01:47:06 AM · #9 |
| You don't have to have macro to have abstract |
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10/23/2002 02:07:15 AM · #10 |
| This is a good idea. The next theme "Illusions" will probably produce many of these, I suspect. |
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