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08/01/2008 05:34:39 AM · #1 |
This is my first time voting on Free Study and I have to say it is quite an undertaking. At least with the other challenges I can start with the topic of the challenge and then critique from there, but with free study it is quite difficult to go from a frog to a flower to wine glasses to a naked woman then a gorilla... Maybe it's just me but with over 500 photos I find myself sometimes fairly or unfairly giving either higher or lower votes depending on the photo I just previously viewed. Of course on a different topic there should be some criteria for voting I see so many people giving even the top photos 1's and 2's. IMO people who give 1's and 2's or 9's and 10's should have to comment on why they gave that vote.
/end Rant
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08/01/2008 05:43:32 AM · #2 |
In Free Study especially, voting by "sorting" is a very good way to go. Make a quick run-through on the images and assign a 6 to every image you want to go back to and study more closely, i.e. the ones that seem especially good to you. Once you've passed through all of the images once, all your 6's will be at the top of your voting page and you can now go back through them, in order, and assign higher scores as appropriate. At this point you'll have a good overview of the whole challenge, and avoid some of the problems you have mentioned.
R.
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08/01/2008 05:47:33 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
In Free Study especially, voting by "sorting" is a very good way to go. Make a quick run-through on the images and assign a 6 to every image you want to go back to and study more closely, i.e. the ones that seem especially good to you. Once you've passed through all of the images once, all your 6's will be at the top of your voting page and you can now go back through them, in order, and assign higher scores as appropriate. At this point you'll have a good overview of the whole challenge, and avoid some of the problems you have mentioned.
R. |
And then what? Go through the 5s and score them down if need be?
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08/01/2008 05:48:29 AM · #4 |
| The votes I give tend to be a higher on average for a freestudy, because naturally, everybody has submitted their best stuff from he previous month. |
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08/01/2008 06:12:36 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by HawkeyeLonewolf:
And then what? Go through the 5s and score them down if need be? |
I usually give out my 5's and 4's on first pass these days and don't go back to them, just to the 6's, which I then upgrade many of. I rarely give a 3-or-lower, so that's not a factor.
R.
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08/01/2008 06:19:20 AM · #6 |
If I feel an image needs a 4 I give it a four, images that are well composed, good lighting, sharp focus and that I like (yes that comes into play ) I usually give a 6-7
When I am voting if I see a really good image, the lighting, the colors, the wow factor, the detail you know the 'package' i usually give it a 9 or an 8
after I go through my images, I go back and check the ones in my 6-7 category, re-examine them bump them up or down if need be, I do that with every category
lastly I deal with the 9's or 8's, I re-evaluate those as well and bump those up or down
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