02-22-12 – Noir: Embrace Your Dark Side

I always get so confused by these voters. My shot I had picked as my favourite (Craven) and most likely to get votes is holding a miserable 1 right now. I figured it was a good balance of darkness/fear with the crouching in the corner and the shadow, but meh. Anyone have some potential criticism they could share with me? Because otherwise I have a confused.

Anyone have some potential criticism they could share with me? Because otherwise I have a confused.

I have only one piece of advice: the more you like something, the less likely it is to receive votes. Thus is the nature of Fark.

Anyone have some potential criticism they could share with me? Because otherwise I have a confused.

I have only one piece of advice: the more you like something, the less likely it is to receive votes. Thus is the nature of Fark.

This does appear to be a general truism of Fark. Some of my best placing photos were not my favorites, while my favorites tanked.

I’ve learned to accept it an photograph and submit what I like, if it works out, great, if not, also great.

I *have* noticed that taller photos tend to get more votes. Strange psyche, these farkers. Thanks, all.

/eta – for that shot, I actually did try to crop it several times. Nothing felt “right” though for the mood of the shot except as-is. Sacrificed votes for artistic leeway, perhaps? 😛

I *have* noticed that taller photos tend to get more votes. Strange psyche, these farkers.

Actually I think that’s mostly down to simple geometry – a 640x900px image has a lot more impact than a 640×400 one because it’s more than double the area.

By complete chance I ran across what looks to be a dupe. bastian_74’s entry appears to have been previously used in “Hope” and “Can I Get A Show Of Hands?”. File numbers don’t match, crop is slightly different, but wanted to bring it up.

I thought that one looked familiar, but I can’t get a 100% verification that it’s a dupe. The file from this week’s contest has a timestamp of Feb 22, 2012, but no other EXIF data, and the one from “Hope” has no EXIF at all. It’s possible that it’s two consecutive frames. I did stack them in GIMP, it looks like they align pretty closely (though not exactly, owing to a pixel or two crop). If it were just the razor blade, that wouldn’t mean much, but I’d think it would be difficult to get the hand in the exact same place within the bumpy texture of the counter from one frame to the next, and you can line up all those bumps and the reflection with the same reflection. Still, I think I’ll ask in thread before pulling it just in case…

Yeah I would bet my point n shoot they are the same picture with different editing to make them slightly different. the hand is in as near as I can tell exactly the same position.

By complete chance I ran across what looks to be a dupe. bastian_74’s entry appears to have been previously used in “Hope” and “Can I Get A Show Of Hands?”. File numbers don’t match, crop is slightly different, but wanted to bring it up.

I thought that one looked familiar, but I can’t get a 100% verification that it’s a dupe. The file from this week’s contest has a timestamp of Feb 22, 2012, but no other EXIF data, and the one from “Hope” has no EXIF at all. It’s possible that it’s two consecutive frames. I did stack them in GIMP, it looks like they align pretty closely (though not exactly, owing to a pixel or two crop). If it were just the razor blade, that wouldn’t mean much, but I’d think it would be difficult to get the hand in the exact same place within the bumpy texture of the counter from one frame to the next, and you can line up all those bumps and the reflection with the same reflection. Still, I think I’ll ask in thread before pulling it just in case…

Yeah I would bet my point n shoot they are the same picture with different editing to make them slightly different. the hand is in as near as I can tell exactly the same position.

Same setup, same hand positioning, same lighting for 3 photos out of only a handful of contests? Okay, I’m voting this one’s a Scarlet R. Seems way too unlikely. Shame – I really liked it for this theme, but didn’t even realize it’s been used (twice!) before.