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March 30, 2009 at 12:50 am #21350
corsec67
ParticipantI have one that I really did and do think should have done better. It was in the “Tricky” theme. I plan to give a description of how I took the photo. Maybe that was the problem before, as I just put a title under the pic. That difference should be okay……right?
I think for the contest you could try, but it seems like voters don’t like to read. It seems like it isn’t that they hate text, but if the text is essential to understanding the picture, then it fails.
Unless you have a really good story that drastically changes the meaning of the picture for everyone.
March 30, 2009 at 12:51 am #21351U-Man
ParticipantI have one that I really did and do think should have done better. It was in the “Tricky” theme. I plan to give a description of how I took the photo. Maybe that was the problem before, as I just put a title under the pic. That difference should be okay……right?
My input…yeah, that’s fine. As long as you leave the pic unchanged, different text is OK.
March 30, 2009 at 1:13 am #21352
orionidParticipantI think for the contest you could try, but it seems like voters don’t like to read. It seems like it isn’t that they hate text, but if the text is essential to understanding the picture, then it fails.
Especially when that text is a paragraph trying to teach them how to view a stereoscopic image without a special viewer.
April 1, 2009 at 12:47 am #21353ParticipantAre the April Fools shenanigans going to mess with this contest?
Like last year, where posts went into a different thread?
(This wouldn’t matter once the thread goes green, though)April 1, 2009 at 3:47 am #21354Elsinore
KeymasterOh damn, I didn’t think about that. I don’t think so, but I’ll know more tomorrow early enough that maybe we can avert any issues.
April 1, 2009 at 5:20 am #21355swampa
ParticipantWho cares about filters when we have the New Fark Experience!!
Nice work on being one of the features E 😀
April 1, 2009 at 8:39 am #21356kashari
ParticipantIs it ok to select one picture from our grouping in the “Take Three” contest, since they were posted as one entry?
April 1, 2009 at 8:57 am #21357SilverStag
ParticipantI don’t see why not. I’m taking one from “Seasons”
April 1, 2009 at 12:00 pm #21358KeymasterWho cares about filters when we have the New Fark Experience!!
Nice work on being one of the features E 😀
Thanks! Only thing better is if there were a Farktography Bug Porn group. Might suggest it to Drew.
April 1, 2009 at 12:58 pm #21359staplermofo
ParticipantThanks! Only thing better is if there were a Farktography Bug Porn group. Might suggest it to Drew.
It’s on a Thursday next year.
We should pretend to get arrested for child porn then. Like, have the fark thread and farktography.net replaced with some kind of “pending legal action” whatever.
Pick a theme so Elsinore could post a bug on a kid, I could post a stapler on a kid, soosh could post a dismembered corpse in a starkly beautiful abandoned mine, millera9 could have his posts blocked by the Saudi government and frantically call the embassy with his thickest American accent, begging for someone to fax his birth certificate to them, between sobs, SilverStag could post a great shot that doesn’t get anywhere near enough attention, and so on and so on.
Maybe redo a couple famous songs* (I think you know which ones) in a staged video edit a week or two beforehand.
Maybe have a bear theme the week beforehand.
It’s brilliant!
* translation in video infoApril 1, 2009 at 9:35 pm #21360soosh
ParticipantIs the FSM tango-uniform for anyone else? I just tried to load my portfolio page to look at my entries and it’s not loading very well at all.
April 1, 2009 at 9:36 pm #21361Participantand now it’s back.
April 1, 2009 at 10:10 pm #21362ParticipantSilverStag could post a great shot that doesn’t get anywhere near enough attention, and so on and so on.
Yeah, what’s up wit dat?
April 1, 2009 at 11:18 pm #21363justkat
ParticipantI have one that I really did and do think should have done better. It was in the “Tricky” theme. I plan to give a description of how I took the photo. Maybe that was the problem before, as I just put a title under the pic. That difference should be okay……right?
I think for the contest you could try, but it seems like voters don’t like to read. It seems like it isn’t that they hate text, but if the text is essential to understanding the picture, then it fails.
Unless you have a really good story that drastically changes the meaning of the picture for everyone.
i quite disagree – i feel like voters respond well to a little context, and i know i personally do.
but maybe my pictures are just weak. 😛
April 2, 2009 at 12:04 am #21364KeymasterHave a look at A Second Look:
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