12-08-10 – Optimus Prime – Page 8 – Its not photography, its Farktography

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December 9, 2010 at 11:36 pm #35479

Elsinore
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Elsinore, I really like the Optimus Prime shot. I laughed when I saw it.

Thanks! I really figured there’d be a lot of Optimus Primes.

December 9, 2010 at 11:43 pm #35480

ennuipoet
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I just have ONE question for everyone who posted a macro/close shot of their cats (Rav!) howinhell did you convince the cat to stay still long enough to compose and shoot? My cats SEE a camera and they become furry blurs.

December 10, 2010 at 12:38 am #35481

ravnostic
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I just have ONE question for everyone who posted a macro/close shot of their cats (Rav!) howinhell did you convince the cat to stay still long enough to compose and shoot? My cats SEE a camera and they become furry blurs.

He’s a camera whore.

December 10, 2010 at 1:02 am #35482

Elsinore
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He’s ready for the vote whoring theme 😉

December 10, 2010 at 1:24 am #35483

ravnostic
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Indeed!

December 10, 2010 at 1:24 am #35484

ravnostic
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p.s., you should see him behind the camera! (And you probably will)

December 10, 2010 at 1:38 am #35485

linguine
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I just have ONE question for everyone who posted a macro/close shot of their cats (Rav!) howinhell did you convince the cat to stay still long enough to compose and shoot? My cats SEE a camera and they become furry blurs.

With my cat I usually just put my camera down next to him and pet him for a minute or 2 which usually gets him relaxed and gets some of his desire for attention out of his system so he doesn’t just keep trying to walk over to me.

December 10, 2010 at 4:17 am #35486

CauseISaidSo
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What’s up with the voters this week? We’re a full 360 votes down from the last-6-weeks’ votes average for this point in time.

And orionid, how’d you do the vignetting in your Native Spirit? Is that a “feature” of the Holga or did you take specific action to create it? Either way, I really like it.

December 10, 2010 at 5:34 am #35487

ravnostic
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What’s up with the voters this week? We’re a full 360 votes down from the last-6-weeks’ votes average for this point in time.

And orionid, how’d you do the vignetting in your Native Spirit? Is that a “feature” of the Holga or did you take specific action to create it? Either way, I really like it.

You’ve got stats on votes by time? How cool! Is that just a cumulative thing, or can it be done per individual? That’s something I’d like to see.

December 10, 2010 at 7:09 am #35488

CauseISaidSo
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You’ve got stats on votes by time? How cool! Is that just a cumulative thing, or can it be done per individual? That’s something I’d like to see.

It’s both, rav. I take a snapshot of the current page values every 15 minutes.

The sample graphs below are all real data from this contest, but right now I’m just exporting the data into Excel and using it to make the graphs. Eventually they’ll be dynamically generated on the website.

You’ve already seen this one. It’s the cumulative total votes (green background, in tens of votes) and the votes cast in any 15-minute period (blue columns):

Here’s the timeline of entrants (farktographers) and entries. Voted entrants/entries means they’ve received at least 1 vote.

Here’s the total vote graph for all contests since I started collecting data. The gray background is the average. You can see that the current contest is well below the average.

And finally, I think this is the one you’re looking for. I shoulda known as a self-identified math “geek” that you might be interested in this graph. It shows an individuals entries (in this case, mine) as they progress over the life of the contest. The positive values are the vote counts and the negative values are the place. I made the place negative so that the graph would have the “normal” view of up = better.

I’ve got contest-level detail starting from contest #286 and entry-level detail for all entries starting from contest #288.

December 10, 2010 at 8:12 am #35489

ravnostic
Participant

^like^

🙂

December 10, 2010 at 12:27 pm #35490

Elsinore
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What’s up with the voters this week? We’re a full 360 votes down from the last-6-weeks’ votes average for this point in time.

It may be that the notion of a prime lens is a bit esoteric for non-photographers. But given this is Farktography, it’s equally likely (and perhaps more) to be the phase of the moon, the alignment of the planets, fruitcake poisoning, El Nino, holiday hangovers, or a butterfly flapping its wings in South America.

December 10, 2010 at 2:16 pm #35491

ravnostic
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But given this is Farktography, it’s equally likely (and perhaps more) to be the phase of the moon, the alignment of the planets, fruitcake poisoning, El Nino, holiday hangovers, or a butterfly flapping its wings in South America.

‘snot me; I haven’t poisoned anyone. Lately.

December 10, 2010 at 2:24 pm #35492

Curious
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i was tempted to sit this one out. seems the voters agreed.

December 10, 2010 at 2:48 pm #35493

ennuipoet
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What’s up with the voters this week? We’re a full 360 votes down from the last-6-weeks’ votes average for this point in time.

Part time of year, part Photo-centric theme, I suspect. I know when I start talking photography talk around the Cellphoners (my personal term for those whose idea of photography is cellphone snaphots) their eyes start to glaze over, some begin to drool helplessly while others squirm desperately to get away from me before I start using terms like “depth of field” or god forbid “chromatic abberation”.
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