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 01/02/2005 02:00:40 PM · #1
I have 8 comments on a current challenge, all of them say the border is horrible. I find not alot of people like borders. So therfore I will never use one in a challenge again. No matter how good I think it is.
 01/02/2005 02:04:21 PM · #2
Well, you could perhaps try using a border that isn't horrible?
I personally like to use a simple 8-10 pixel white border, and nobody's complained.
01/02/2005 02:12:35 PM · #3
Travis,

Did you use a border or a frame? Quite a number of challenge images benefit from discreet borders, but the use of a "replica frame" is probably gonna get hooted down very time. You know the kind, looks like a matted print in a 3-dimensional frame...

Robt.
 01/02/2005 02:42:48 PM · #4
I always use borders and haven't had any negative reactions from anyone. You might have used a frame with shadows or something like that, which actually detracts from the photo. I suggest using simple borders in the future...
 01/02/2005 02:44:13 PM · #5
I'm "guilty" here. I haven't commented on any borders in a while, but generally speaking, I don't like them.

Yes, there are exceptions to this rule, but essentially:
if a photo is good, a border won't improve it, it will only distract from it.

If you think you MUST have a border, keep it very plain and simple.
It seems that borders can do more harm than good to a score on dpc.
 01/02/2005 02:44:47 PM · #6
Yeah your right, I used a frame. I will never use a frame again.
 01/02/2005 04:50:18 PM · #7
Originally posted by Travis99:
Yeah your right, I used a frame. I will never use a frame again.

naw, you've just been framed :)

sorry, couldn't resist
 01/02/2005 04:53:47 PM · #8
I don't mind borders when they're not overpowering. Most of my images here have borders.
 01/02/2005 04:55:55 PM · #9
used this border once .... never again!!!!!!



LOL
 01/02/2005 05:08:12 PM · #10


Was a gamble. Took a longshot and got lucky.
 01/02/2005 05:14:03 PM · #11
Ag,

Yeah, that one will kill ya every time, LOL. Takes you out of "photography" and into "graphic arts." Works well for using pictures on websites, as elements of the design, but not right for here.

I edit a poetry e-zine, and use a lot of that sort of thing in there:

//www.susquehannaquarterly.org

And we use frames there too, if we are representing actual art. See Thomas Pickering's Vermeer poems...

Robt.

Message edited by author 2005-01-02 17:14:54.
 01/02/2005 05:16:12 PM · #12
Brad, your triptych frames seemed to enhance that image. Can't figure why, it just looks very appealing.
01/02/2005 05:19:07 PM · #13
IMO Brad's pic is more appealing as a triptych than it would be straight. Occasionally an image comes along that begs for something different in its presentation, and this is one of them. I'd definitely commend him for his courage here.

Robt.

01/02/2005 05:29:55 PM · #14
I agree Brad's frame here is very appealing.
I also think that every photograph can look great with a border. The question is what kind of border. A simple, plain colored border, thin or thick depending on the photographed subject can add a lot IMO.

The idea is to find the right border that enhances the picture, the colors, the subject. Not a frame/border that is a subject of its own.


01/02/2005 11:16:04 PM · #15
I think that I shall never see
A frame lovely as a tree.
A tree whose photo online is here
.....

Appologies to Joyce Kilmer

:-)
 01/02/2005 11:23:56 PM · #16
It seems to me (no detective work done here) that most of the ribbon winners seem to have a border of some kind.
 01/02/2005 11:44:56 PM · #17
The best borders, you do not see... The worst borders are all you see...
 01/02/2005 11:46:56 PM · #18
Originally posted by jpochard:
It seems to me (no detective work done here) that most of the ribbon winners seem to have a border of some kind.


Actually, out of the last 10 challenges, 8 of 30, or 27% of the ribbon-winning images have had borders.
 01/02/2005 11:52:23 PM · #19
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by jpochard:
It seems to me (no detective work done here) that most of the ribbon winners seem to have a border of some kind.


Actually, out of the last 10 challenges, 8 of 30, or 27% of the ribbon-winning images have had borders.


Actually, I counted 10, but that's still not a majority.





Message edited by author 2005-01-02 23:58:34.
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