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06/11/2011 12:19:56 PM · #51
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:

Do you get an e-mail or anything when they accept/reject your shot? I just keep checking and seeing nothing published in my profile yet.


No e-mail or other notification.

These days, you go to "Account" -> "Upload photos", and there you'll have your pictures, uploaded, in the screening process, published, and not published. That's how you find out that they're not published. If they're published, it will be posted to your newsfeed (and, of course, you'll see them on the front page), but there's no notification or reasons given if they're not published.

06/11/2011 12:30:10 PM · #52
Originally posted by Sirashley:

... Sooo I'm going out Sunday, not sure if I'm shooting Landscapes or birds, we'll see how the weather and my mood goes :) ...


Go out with an idea, a vision, of what you want to say with your pictures. It makes a huge difference. Spend $5.00 on this little book, read it (it's short - I started reading it last night, am about 1/4 of the way through), take it to heart. That book is just one example of what I'm talking about. I believe you need to have more than just "go out and shoot" to make the difference. That, and NO EXCUSES! The thing that sinks most people is that they're making lousy excuses for their own pictures - it doesn't work. So, vision and no excuses - it makes a difference! :)
06/11/2011 04:01:03 PM · #53
Originally posted by ursula:

Go out with an idea, a vision, of what you want to say with your pictures. It makes a huge difference. Spend $5.00 on this little book, read it (it's short - I started reading it last night, am about 1/4 of the way through), take it to heart. That book is just one example of what I'm talking about. I believe you need to have more than just "go out and shoot" to make the difference. That, and NO EXCUSES! The thing that sinks most people is that they're making lousy excuses for their own pictures - it doesn't work. So, vision and no excuses - it makes a difference! :)


Ursula,

Okay...I bought the book and will read it while on the train! Looking forward to it. Thanks for the recommendation!!

Sometimes, I have to say that when I go out with a certain vision...sometimes I come back with something entirely different but which still matches the original intent. Predicting nature with a preconceived vision sounds kind of restricting to me and I like to be flexible.

Artifacts once told me that "Nature never disappoints."

I tend to agree with that...anyone have a different thought?

-M

P.S. Hmmmmm...as I'm flipping through these pages, I'm reminded of the quote from Anaïs Nin:

'We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.'

Interesting stuff.

Message edited by author 2011-06-11 16:16:26.
06/11/2011 04:38:16 PM · #54
Originally posted by hihosilver:

Originally posted by ursula:

Go out with an idea, a vision, of what you want to say with your pictures. It makes a huge difference. Spend $5.00 on this little book, read it (it's short - I started reading it last night, am about 1/4 of the way through), take it to heart. That book is just one example of what I'm talking about. I believe you need to have more than just "go out and shoot" to make the difference. That, and NO EXCUSES! The thing that sinks most people is that they're making lousy excuses for their own pictures - it doesn't work. So, vision and no excuses - it makes a difference! :)


Ursula,

Okay...I bought the book and will read it while on the train! Looking forward to it. Thanks for the recommendation!!

Sometimes, I have to say that when I go out with a certain vision...sometimes I come back with something entirely different but which still matches the original intent. Predicting nature with a preconceived vision sounds kind of restricting to me and I like to be flexible.

Artifacts once told me that "Nature never disappoints."

I tend to agree with that...anyone have a different thought?

-M

P.S. Hmmmmm...as I'm flipping through these pages, I'm reminded of the quote from Anaïs Nin:

'We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.'

Interesting stuff.


Hmmm, yes, Mae, I know what you're saying. It is something I've been wondering about and thinking about for a long time (the book was just an example, 'cause I happened to be reading it just now). I've wondered if having a vision or an idea when going out on a shoot is restrictive. If having an idea of what I'm after will cause me to miss all sorts of other stuff.

Vision could be defined in that narrow way, but I don't think it should, neither is that restrictive definition what I was talking about. Vision is not restrictive. It isn't having a fixed idea and ignoring all else, but it is a way of looking at the world around us and exactly NOT looking for specific things, but letting it, the world around us, the things around us, talk to us and through us. It is us speaking with our pictures. It is looking at more rather than at less.

Steve (Artifacts) is right ... nature doesn't disappoint, nor do people or buildings or drops of water or whatever you're looking at. What disappoints is just looking at them but not seeing them really, not communicating with them and through them and about them. If that makes sense. It's good to discuss these things :)

06/11/2011 05:19:05 PM · #55
Ok, I didn't know where to look. Looks like my pickup truck was rejected. One of my best shots, but that's how 1x is.
06/11/2011 05:21:28 PM · #56
Originally posted by WriteHeart:

I know my pics aren't that good, but do I have anything that's even remotely 1x worthy?


Well, I was going to suggest this, until I saw the description on it. Ooops!


I am not TOO familiar with 1x. I paid my first visit there less than an hour ago... but I like these images. The second one maybe with a different crop...

06/11/2011 05:22:20 PM · #57
Originally posted by srroberts07:

Some really fantastic images on that site. I submitted this yesterday, will most likely get rejected but it's a shot I've always liked. Maybe a little too busy with all the small branches?


I actually personally really like this shot!
06/11/2011 05:34:03 PM · #58
I spent a great deal of time on 1x today and the more I looked the more I realized my entered image will not make it. The really good ones over there have a very 3d feel to an image especially the people street ones; you just feel like you're standing in front of the subject. Mine feel so flat in comparison and the ones that do think evoke the 3d-ness have meh subject matter. They kind of make you go so you have something in front of a background so what? I think it's time to push myself for some evolution


06/11/2011 05:51:13 PM · #59
I think understanding 1x selection is best illustrated by examples. I picked just few of the most recently published images on 1x in landscape category:

1. //1x.com/photo/42379/category/landscape/latest-additions/destiny
2. //1x.com/photo/42363/category/landscape/latest-additions/fire-sunset
3. //1x.com/photo/42355/category/landscape/latest-additions/boulder-and-the-buckle
4. //1x.com/photo/42336/category/landscape/latest-additions/red-ridge

1. I like it - it is very long exposure, B&W; the object looks like bail of hay; I am not sure how it got onto the beach - did the artist arrange the shot or was he just lucky? Technically I don't know how he achieved the shadow either. It must be artificial light because sun shadow would move during long exposure. So I don't know to what extend the shot is natural.

2. not my type of an image but I have seen many similar. I am not sure why this particular one get picked up over the others. I am not sure why it would be picked at all.

3. nice but not special to me; great technically but common subject - am I missing what makes this image special?

4. another nice shot but why was it picked from very many similar shots?

I understand the need for technical perfection at 1x and I see a lot of images on 1x as special. But there is quite a high percentage that look common but get picked regardless. Why?

06/11/2011 09:01:44 PM · #60
Originally posted by MargaretN:

I understand the need for technical perfection at 1x and I see a lot of images on 1x as special. But there is quite a high percentage that look common but get picked regardless. Why?

Same thing that gets you high votes on DPC. Personal appeal. Only where on DPC you get the average of the appeal for everybody, on 1x it is normally based on the personal appeal to one person, the curator who reviews it. Even if an outstanding image, he might be the person who would give it a quick 4 and press on if he were on DPC.
06/11/2011 09:18:48 PM · #61
Originally posted by MargaretN:

I think understanding 1x selection is best illustrated by examples. I picked just few of the most recently published images on 1x in landscape category:

3. //1x.com/photo/42355/category/landscape/latest-additions/boulder-and-the-buckle

3. nice but not special to me; great technically but common subject - am I missing what makes this image special?

I understand the need for technical perfection at 1x and I see a lot of images on 1x as special. But there is quite a high percentage that look common but get picked regardless. Why?


I actually like this landscape...so much to enjoy if you throw out the oversharpening/processing. The sharpening of the detail in the rocks/grass are horrific in my opinion. However...weather, mountain, human interest, and lovely light. What's not to like? I find it more engaging than many. I would not have voted this highly for selection, and would have commented about the processing.

I truly think that many of the selections are geared towards selling prints. I've heard that some of the top artists are not selling much, so I would guess it will continue to move towards more commercial images, i.e. mass appeal.
06/11/2011 09:37:42 PM · #62
Originally posted by bspurgeon:

The sharpening of the detail in the rocks/grass are horrific in my opinion.
It looks I'd better get back basics! My knowledge of technical perfection is lacking.
I agree that the 1x focus is on images that would look great in print. Is that maybe why this image was oversharpened??
06/11/2011 10:02:54 PM · #63
Originally posted by MargaretN:

Originally posted by bspurgeon:

The sharpening of the detail in the rocks/grass are horrific in my opinion.
It looks I'd better get back basics! My knowledge of technical perfection is lacking.
I agree that the 1x focus is on images that would look great in print. Is that maybe why this image was oversharpened??


No. The hi-res images for sale/print are unsharpened. Sharpening is applied based on the size of the print, etc.
06/11/2011 10:45:27 PM · #64
Originally posted by ursula:

Originally posted by Sirashley:

... Sooo I'm going out Sunday, not sure if I'm shooting Landscapes or birds, we'll see how the weather and my mood goes :) ...


Go out with an idea, a vision, of what you want to say with your pictures. It makes a huge difference. Spend $5.00 on this little book, read it (it's short - I started reading it last night, am about 1/4 of the way through), take it to heart. That book is just one example of what I'm talking about. I believe you need to have more than just "go out and shoot" to make the difference. That, and NO EXCUSES! The thing that sinks most people is that they're making lousy excuses for their own pictures - it doesn't work. So, vision and no excuses - it makes a difference! :)


Going to purchase this book right now, and I already have a plan for what I'm going to shoot tomorrow night. I'm going for a Landscape, going to head to the beach with a vision in mind, so long as the weather holds... SO we'll see... Thanks for the tip on the book, I'm going to go start reading it now... Hopefully I'll have a few shots to post tomorrow night...
06/11/2011 11:33:03 PM · #65
Originally posted by MargaretN:

I think understanding 1x selection is best illustrated by examples. I picked just few of the most recently published images on 1x in landscape category:

1. //1x.com/photo/42379/category/landscape/latest-additions/destiny
2. //1x.com/photo/42363/category/landscape/latest-additions/fire-sunset
3. //1x.com/photo/42355/category/landscape/latest-additions/boulder-and-the-buckle
4. //1x.com/photo/42336/category/landscape/latest-additions/red-ridge



Hmmmmm...I did not find any of these selections terribly exciting. Nor, do I feel these selections are representative of the best 1x has to offer.

Essentially, 1x represents an online photo magazine within which a collection of photos pampers the viewer with luxurious visual artistry.

Looking through the portfolios of the top listed artists would seem a better indication of what 1x is all about, and possibly assist to align the 1x vision with our own.

Fernand Hicks springs forth to my mind just as an example of just one of many talents to choose from.

Just my two cents...;-)

Message edited by author 2011-06-11 23:53:59.
06/12/2011 01:31:10 AM · #66
Originally posted by hihosilver:

Hmmmmm...I did not find any of these selections terribly exciting. Nor, do I feel these selections are representative of the best 1x has to offer.
That's true. I was not looking for the best of 1x, just a few recent examples that were PUBLISHED. We are all trying to get published. I don't have any illusions that my photos would ever be with the best 1x can offer but I would like to have a few of my photos published purely for personal satisfaction. I am trying to understand what gets published on 1x and therefore what I can do to get my photos to the baseline standard. I am not even trying to reach the dizzying heights of the best photographers, I just don't have the talent for that.
06/12/2011 02:04:30 AM · #67
Well, perhaps by studying the most concentrated and successful efforts, we may not be able to mimick the success of the most masterful, but perhaps we will all have a better chance of publication as opposed to studying just a random set of dailys.

Just my two cents...;-)
06/12/2011 02:22:31 AM · #68
Originally posted by hihosilver:

Well, perhaps by studying the most concentrated and successful efforts, we may not be able to mimick the success of the most masterful, but perhaps we will all have a better chance of publication as opposed to studying just a random set of dailys.

Just my two cents...;-)
Perhaps.. But that makes me want to give up trying. I prefer realistic targets.
06/12/2011 03:55:57 AM · #69
Originally posted by Revecca:

Originally posted by WriteHeart:

I know my pics aren't that good, but do I have anything that's even remotely 1x worthy?


Well, I was going to suggest this, until I saw the description on it. Ooops!


I am not TOO familiar with 1x. I paid my first visit there less than an hour ago... but I like these images. The second one maybe with a different crop...


Thanks so much Revecca. I may try to recapture the rock climber with more rock ahead of him to climb (based on a comment from someone who reviewed that one once). In the meantime I may just submit that one until I can schedule the shoot. Thanks for looking and posting.
06/12/2011 07:34:35 AM · #70
Originally posted by Sirashley:

but if I were you, I'd submit this shot



It has great originality, tells a story, and has that sort of 1x feel...


I agree.....

My only suggestion would be to perhaps fool around with levels, or some such, to see if you can darken it somewhat and bring out more detail. Subjectively, of course.......8~)
06/12/2011 08:00:39 AM · #71
Originally posted by WriteHeart:

Originally posted by Revecca:

Originally posted by WriteHeart:

I know my pics aren't that good, but do I have anything that's even remotely 1x worthy?


Well, I was going to suggest this, until I saw the description on it. Ooops!


I am not TOO familiar with 1x. I paid my first visit there less than an hour ago... but I like these images. The second one maybe with a different crop...


Thanks so much Revecca. I may try to recapture the rock climber with more rock ahead of him to climb (based on a comment from someone who reviewed that one once). In the meantime I may just submit that one until I can schedule the shoot. Thanks for looking and posting.


You're very welcome! With the rock climber, I'd shoot for a pose of an arm at the top of the mountain and try to get a sense of struggle that the person would be showing to get to the top. In a weird sort of way, it'd show your struggle (and determination) to get published on 1x. 8D
06/12/2011 08:27:54 AM · #72
Originally posted by MargaretN:

Originally posted by hihosilver:

Well, perhaps by studying the most concentrated and successful efforts, we may not be able to mimick the success of the most masterful, but perhaps we will all have a better chance of publication as opposed to studying just a random set of dailys.

Just my two cents...;-)
Perhaps.. But that makes me want to give up trying. I prefer realistic targets.


Oh...I meant it to be inspirational...;-)
06/12/2011 08:35:04 AM · #73
Originally posted by hihosilver:

Originally posted by MargaretN:

Originally posted by hihosilver:

Well, perhaps by studying the most concentrated and successful efforts, we may not be able to mimick the success of the most masterful, but perhaps we will all have a better chance of publication as opposed to studying just a random set of dailys.

Just my two cents...;-)
Perhaps.. But that makes me want to give up trying. I prefer realistic targets.


Oh...I meant it to be inspirational...;-)
I have no inspiration. I wish I had it.
06/12/2011 09:35:43 AM · #74
Originally posted by MargaretN:

Oh...I meant it to be inspirational...;-) I have no inspiration. I wish I had it.


Margaret! How can you say that?!

We are surrounded by phenomenal talent whose work does nothing but elevate the spirit into euphoria.

Also, better brands of coffee help!

So let's all wake up and enjoy!

Message edited by author 2011-06-12 09:36:42.
06/12/2011 09:55:30 AM · #75
Originally posted by WriteHeart:

I know my pics aren't that good, but do I have anything that's even remotely 1x worthy?


That is what I was thinking... I mean I know for a fact I am not good... Sure maybe "okay" would fit as the word to describe my photographic talent but as shown here in this thread some of the photos on 1x are just "okay."

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