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 07/05/2005 09:57:04 PM · #1
Just wondering what other people think about this. While searching for objects that fit the circle challenge I discovered many objects that were round, but that I didn't think met the challenge requirement. To me circle implies that there is an outside edge with the center either being empty or a different color...

Kinda hard to describe, but personally I think that round objects like a baloon or baseball, ect. do not fit this challenge and thus I will be voting them down.

Any other people feel this way or am I just being anal?
 07/05/2005 09:57:47 PM · #2
ps. Nearly 500 entries already which I also think is a bit much! :/
 07/05/2005 09:59:03 PM · #3
Originally posted by JayWalk:
Any other people feel this way or am I just being anal?

Yes, you are.

PS: Thankfully my entry is not a sphere.

07/05/2005 10:00:57 PM · #4
to be blunt, yes you are being anal
 07/05/2005 10:02:15 PM · #5
Originally posted by JayWalk:
Just wondering what other people think about this. While searching for objects that fit the circle challenge I discovered many objects that were round, but that I didn't think met the challenge requirement. To me circle implies that there is an outside edge with the center either being empty or a different color...

Kinda hard to describe, but personally I think that round objects like a baloon or baseball, ect. do not fit this challenge and thus I will be voting them down.

Any other people feel this way or am I just being anal?


I think you are being anal..sorry your words..
I don't see the value in challenges being argued on semantics or subjective interpretation of the rules..I am only interested in ATTEMPTS to meet the challenge, and photography. And yes 500 is a scary #.
 07/05/2005 10:02:50 PM · #6
Ha... well then maybe i will just have to reconsider!

Doesn't really matter all that much anyway since I am going to ribbon with my entry! :p
 07/05/2005 10:13:22 PM · #7
extremely anal ... down right close minded in fact
 07/05/2005 10:18:18 PM · #8
Originally posted by JayWalk:
Ha... well then maybe i will just have to reconsider!

Doesn't really matter all that much anyway since I am going to ribbon with my entry! :p


Good for you! I like the fact that you're not locked into a FINAL decision.
 07/05/2005 10:19:24 PM · #9
definitely retentive, but you won't be alone.
 07/05/2005 10:21:23 PM · #10
I hope you are the vast minority.
 07/05/2005 10:23:53 PM · #11
Generally, if I can see any connection to the theme, I give the picture the benefit of the doubt. My thinking may not be up to encompassing the whole of the challenge, as it were.

My personal rule is that if I simply cannot in any way, shape, or form equate the picture with the challenge, then I will mentally grade the picture as if it fit the challenge and then subtract one point from that score.

It may not be the best way to handle the situation, but it gives me a way to handle the situation. Thus I need not freeze up and attempt to reinvent the wheel every time this problem arises.
07/05/2005 10:26:13 PM · #12
Regardless of your "vision" of a circle, a basketball certainly fits the description. I don't see how the inside being empty makes it any more a circle.
 07/05/2005 10:40:12 PM · #13
I was thinking along the lines of this......
A sphere is 3 dimensional, while a circle is 1 dimensional. If the subject at least has the appearance of being one dimensional then it is a circle. At least IMO anyways. *shrug*
 07/05/2005 10:41:08 PM · #14
Nearly 500 entries???Gee, that is going to take a while to go through them all.
 07/05/2005 10:50:53 PM · #15
A circle is different from a sphere. My 2 cents :)
 07/05/2005 10:56:37 PM · #16
We could go around in circles on this one.........hehehehehe ... but then again, it could be that we would be going round and round and....

Ray
 07/05/2005 10:57:26 PM · #17
Originally posted by RayEthier:
We could go around in circles on this one.........hehehehehe ... but then again, it could be that we would be going round and round and....

Ray


If we could only photograph it
07/05/2005 10:59:19 PM · #18
In a photograph, as with any one-dimensional art, all spheres are circles anyway ;)
 07/05/2005 11:00:17 PM · #19
OK... so I actually thought of a few examples that would discredit my origianl thought of round vs circular (or whether there was a difference).

I was wrong... I admit it. Looks like I better not think out loud any more. :\
 07/05/2005 11:11:42 PM · #20
Originally posted by JayWalk:
To me circle implies that there is an outside edge with the center either being empty or a different color...


You aren't defining a circle - you are defining a ring.

I am VERY glad I decided to skip this one....
 07/05/2005 11:29:34 PM · #21
Technically speaking, a circle is the set of points that are all equidistant from some other point (the center). A sphere is the set of points that are all equidistant from the center point in 3d. So... by this definition, the ring is actually a circle, if the thickness were infinitely small.

Obviously, this definition leaves very little artistic room.. and I hope people will rather go with "circular" as their definition of the challenge, rather than just... "circle" which is a bit stringent.
 07/05/2005 11:32:03 PM · #22
And so it begins.

**shrugs**
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