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Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

01/19/2007 03:18:17 AM · #29

by the way, you can quote somebody by just clicking the "quote" button. You don't have to copy and paste. See, you just learned something else today :)

zeolite

Canon PowerShot A70

01/19/2007 03:19:12 AM · #30

Originally posted by Blue Moon:

Originally posted by zeolite:
It's NOT ABOUT THE SCORE!!!!! Is nobody getting my point here? This is what I was talking about. You get all defensive and attack the noob!

Now, who is taking this personally? Me or the guys here doing the same thing I was talking about in the first post.

*love*

I must say that, no I don't understand your point. Nobody was attacking you...until you started attacking others. There was no way somebody could know that it was a nooB image during the challenge. And as for being a nooB, it appears you have been in challenges for almost 4 years now, in that time you could have entered hundreds of shots and gained a vast amount of information. Maybe you aren't taking it personally, but your tone is that of an extremely irate person, but I suppose it can be misinterpreted when you can't actually hear the person.

I know alllll about misunderstanding things around here. I was upset that I had missed the deadline for a challenge and immediately made a post asking people to tell me how they thought it would have done. Apparently people get very angry when you do things like that, but how could I have known that being a nooB? I realized I was (partially)at fault and I moved on. My point is to learn from this and not react with violent words, as it only leads to more vilolent words and sometimes actions.

Please don't call me violent, because I'm not. I have not cursed at anyone or called anyone bad names. I only called myself and asshole and I know someone is going to quote that line and be mean :)

And... DNMC means? These nifty 3-10 letter words mean?

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/19/2007 03:26:57 AM · #31

my tongue is bleeding

Blue Moon

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

01/19/2007 03:27:40 AM · #32

Originally posted by zeolite:

Eh, fair enough. Are you serious about dnmc, oh well, in case you are:

DNMC= Does Not Meet Challenge
IMO= In My Opinion
IMHO= In My Honest Opinion
ROFL= Rolling On the Floor Laughing
LMAO= Laughing My Ass Off
ROFLMAO= Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off
USM= Unsharpen Mask
HDR= High Dynamic Range
OOF= Out Of Focus

ugh, those are all I can think of right now..so sleepy...

01/19/2007 03:28:41 AM · #33

Did I cause this much trouble when i first started?

Blue Moon

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

01/19/2007 03:28:51 AM · #34

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

my tongue is bleeding

Poor Art's tongue

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/19/2007 03:35:34 AM · #35

Originally posted by Blue Moon:

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
my tongue is bleeding

Poor Art's tongue

...and yet I continue to bite it. :/

howzit

01/19/2007 03:37:36 AM · #36

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Originally posted by Blue Moon:

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
my tongue is bleeding

Poor Art's tongue

...and yet I continue to bite it. :/

We're waiting - come on Art - just say it dude!

JeffryZ

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

01/19/2007 03:40:42 AM · #37

DNMC is short-hand for Does Not Meet Challenge. People did not think it fitted into the topic for the particular challenge. Like many before and after me (and probably most of the people responding here) we have all had a photo we liked and wanted to get in into a challenge so people could enjoy it and tell us how good it was so we put it in- even if it did not fit the category. Sometimes a clever title tries to make it fit. But the voters do not like that. Some people will give a few points to a nice picture even if it does not meet the challenge but others will refuse to give higher than a one or two. Learning what the voters like is also part of the process- along with tryinig to learn what makes a good picture.

Think like a business or school. Would your client pay you for the photo if they asked for one in the category? Would the teacher give you a good grade on it? The voters are the client and teachers. If our homework is wrong, we get a bad grade or no money. And so you have learned something with this photo- just not what you set out to learn. Shoot for the audience. You can still try to do it in your own way of course.

As to the picture itself, it was helpful to me to know what you were trying to show. My first reaction was that it is too dark and that I would have liked to have seen more of the park below the buildings, but since you say it was about the noise and stress you found in the park, how you could not truely escape the city there, I now can look at it and see that the tall, opressive buildinga are encroaching on the park and the city is drowning out the green peacefulness of the park. Going with black and white also removed the blue of the sky and green of the park- again taking away what most people find peaceful in such areas. I did not have time to enter or vote on this challenge, but if I had, I probably have left you a comment similar to the ones you received.
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crayon

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH1

01/19/2007 03:42:20 AM · #38

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Originally posted by Blue Moon:

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
my tongue is bleeding

Poor Art's tongue

...and yet I continue to bite it. :/

i thought you were chewing on razors again.

mist

Canon EOS-60D

01/19/2007 03:44:08 AM · #39

Originally posted by zeolite:

Can't buildings have face too He he... Now I'm going far, far from the point :)

Well, yes, I suppose they can. Though for here if you are going to take such an oblique angle on your shot, you may have helped yourself by calling the shot "portrait of a building" or something, just to give us poor, hapless folk who have no clue some idea of your intention.

In the wider scheme of things, I'm afraid that if you enter a shot here that people think does not meet the challenge, then you will probably get a lot of comments telling you as much. Consider yourself fortunate, some people just enter "bad" shots and don't get any comments explaining what they might do to fix it. At least you know for next time to provide a shot that fits more into the spirit of the challenge if you want a different type of comment.

tfarrell23

Sony DSC-F828

01/19/2007 03:45:45 AM · #40

I agree that it is a portrait of a City, This is the first time I have seen this picture..and if I would have voted the Challenge, I would have gotten the drift of it's meaning... out of the box photography is part of DPC also, and it is a shame that zeolite got caught up in the comment mill...there are some pictures I have taken over the years here that have the same comment over and over again..and it is hard to watch your picture go down in flames...But.. that being said...I could actually say that in my opinion...it met the Challenge..and remember that he did get 40 5 plus votes...so there are others that understood its meaning also... Pug-H expained it exactly... when Drew and Langdon put an N/A for the Challenge description..that does open up a slew of Ideas...at least it does for me...and I am willing to take a low score for creativity...

jan_vdw

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

01/19/2007 03:53:10 AM · #41

Originally posted by xXxscarletxXx:

Did I cause this much trouble when i first started?

You're just a disruptive influence me thinks.
Nothing but love for you though.

JeffryZ

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

01/19/2007 03:53:37 AM · #42

My picture that got bashed: Finished 152 out of 162 images. I thought (hoped) it fit the category. Voters thought otherwise. Now I am more careful.
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The category was "Seeds".

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Tygerr

Nikon D7000

01/19/2007 04:09:32 AM · #43

Zeolite, don't feel too bad... Check out this photo - he got slammed DNMC even worse than you, and his score ended up being worse too.
To be honest though, it's one of the funniest DNMC's out there (I still find myself staring at it looking for a cow or a pail of milk, like one of those 'Where's Waldo?' photos)

Originally posted by Blue Moon:

IMHO= In My Honest Opinion

I always thought that meant "In My Humble Opinion"? Maybe we're all so good here at DPC that we don't have to be humble... ;-)

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

01/19/2007 08:01:11 AM · #44

Originally posted by jan_vdw:

Originally posted by xXxscarletxXx:
Did I cause this much trouble when i first started?

You're just a disruptive influence me thinks.
Nothing but love for you though.

Yeah.....ain't it great?

Blue Moon is ratcheting up to be like that, too.

I love these smart, funny, attractive young ladies with the cat-that-ate-the-canary look on their faces and the slain foes at their feet!

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

01/19/2007 08:02:37 AM · #45

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

Originally posted by jan_vdw:

Originally posted by xXxscarletxXx:
Did I cause this much trouble when i first started?

You're just a disruptive influence me thinks.
Nothing but love for you though.

Yeah.....ain't it great?

Blue Moon is ratcheting up to be like that, too.

I love these smart, funny, attractive young ladies with the cat-that-ate-the-canary look on their faces and the slain foes at their feet!

HEHEHE Glad to be an influence!!!! ok whoa no more tequila for me O.o

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

01/19/2007 08:11:35 AM · #46

DUDE!

I looked at your profile.

You've been here since May 2003.

You can't seriously expect anyone to believe that you didn't know exactly what you were doing when you entered that pic.

You were going for slipping through the cracks in the definition.

I know of what I speak!

I was going for slipping through the cracks of what was NOT said.

I had fun with the reaction!

Beagleboy

Canon EOS-30D

Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX

01/19/2007 08:11:52 AM · #47

In the words of many a teen girl; "Like, whatever.."

Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX

01/19/2007 08:18:05 AM · #48

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

LMFAO
This You've been here since May 2003. brings new light on the subject Looking for attention if you ask me *Nods*

Message edited by author 2007-01-19 08:18:44.

Beagleboy

Canon EOS-30D

01/19/2007 08:20:00 AM · #49