03-26-08 – From a Distance

I thought my ‘towering’ photo would get more votes than my shinjuku photo (i didn’t know if people would realize that shinjuku is that tiny cluster of tall buildings off in the distance).

Two good stories though:
My towering photo is the first picture I ever took with my brand new sigma 10-20mm 🙂 I don’t get how i’ll use that lens, but i’ll figure it out over time.

The shinjuku photo is a raw photo from over 500 I took at various zoom levels, and I’ve constructed a 360degree panorama view of tokyo on this beautiful blue sunny day based upon it. When it’s all said and done, it’s equivalent to a 800mp photo. I love it, dunno what i’ll do to it, but I love it.

I’m moderately surprised that my shot of Briana and Leo isn’t doing better than it appears to be – anyone else ever think that their tastes in their own photos might be really, really skewed compared to vox populi?

Dunno…maybe you need more toddler?

Seriously, though, I love that lightning shot, Caradoc. And Flavivirus‘s Tokyo and the tower in China. And Morningbreath‘s lone tree. And farking_clever‘s Mt. McKinley. And mattietoldhattie‘s Mt. Fuji. And lokisbong‘s Castle Rock. And jimpoz‘s Vegas. Damn, just too much good stuff, people 😀

thank you .yours were very cool too.the majority of the pics this week are very good. 😀

Mine sucked. 😉

Can I get some constructive criticism on my entries? I tanked this week, I think I know why but I’d like to hear from others.

Great show, gang ! I think these last two weeks were my favorites so far. Certainly not from what I had to offer, but from what I’ve seen. I’m living vicariously through all of your eyes….The archives are getting dusty here, and I am badly in need of a photo trip !! 2008 is going to be a good year ! 8)

Well, first off, remember that it’s Farkers doing the voting 🙂

Second, perhaps the only way to get a fair “contest” (and I use the word “contest” very loosely here, because it really is only an exhibition) is to have a blind voting period before you announce a ‘winner’, which is undoubtedly far too much work for a simple Fark thread.

My ideal contest site would work something like this:

People who are qualified voters (i.e. there’s some requirement, no matter how loose) are presented with a randomized set of images from the contest that they score by some criteria (conformance to theme, technical merit, artistic merit, whatever else) and the scores are averaged/weighted to produce a single number. This helps alleviate the ‘earlier pics score better’ or ‘viewer fatigue’ issues.

It’s not easy to run a true contest, which is why I tend to use the word ‘exhibition’ a lot.

That said, this is run for fun and we need to keep that in mind. I look at my 33 or so votes in this last contest not as 10th place, but as “Hey, 33 people liked my stuff enough to vote! Cool!

Well, first off, remember that it’s Farkers doing the voting 🙂

Second, perhaps the only way to get a fair “contest” (and I use the word “contest” very loosely here, because it really is only an exhibition) is to have a blind voting period before you announce a ‘winner’, which is undoubtedly far too much work for a simple Fark thread.

My ideal contest site would work something like this:

People who are qualified voters (i.e. there’s some requirement, no matter how loose) are presented with a randomized set of images from the contest that they score by some criteria (conformance to theme, technical merit, artistic merit, whatever else) and the scores are averaged/weighted to produce a single number. This helps alleviate the ‘earlier pics score better’ or ‘viewer fatigue’ issues.

I agree with most of the above, except for the qualified voters part..If there were some sort of prize being awarded and it was only one contest per month, that would be a different story…I like the fact that any Farker can vote for images that are pleasing to their eyes. I sometimes vote on the Photoshop threads. Not based on their mad skills, but more the idea and thought that was put into it.(usually the funniest ones)….However, I’ve had some luck in a few of these contests without being a TF’er, and that really surprised me because I had always thought that the early birds get the votes…I think voter fatigue is a valid point, as I don’t often go back and vote for late entries in the Photoshop contests. I mainly visit there because of the eye candy factor, and some good laughs..I’m sure other folks treat Farktography in the same manner..Blind voting sounds good, though…Meh, I’m starting to ramble now…Carry on.

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