Assignment 16 - Odd One Out

Keps, I usually like your pictures.
But like KarmaGarda said, those were too posed for my taste. And they were too similar to each other. My understanding of these assignments is first of all practice and to change the way you look at things around you and to get creative. And if then others like and appreciate your efforts the better. Of course it's nice to get votes and even to win. But sometime things you like don't mean the same to others. I can't count the pictures I posted in a random thread because I really liked them but noone agreed. But that's a way to learn and improve as well.
I took a picture yesterday with this assignment in mind and it just didn't work for me so I didn't post it. But still I am glad I realised the situation could have been an opportunity.

keps wrote: »

Just interesting to note - that the out of focus flowers and the glasses in front of the bread-bin have got between them 5 votes- while my attempts between them have a eurovision type 'nul points'.

Obviously my photographic and creative talents are so short of what is required on this elite forum that there is little point in hanging around.

I will go somewhere where the standards are not so exacting(and the fellow members are a bit fairer).

keps

One difference between the flowers and the wine-glasses on the one hand, and your 3 pictures on the other, is that the flowers and wine-glasses fit comfortably into the picture while yours are extremely tightly cropped. In my (inexperienced) opiniion, this really takes away from them.

It's a bit silly to be criticising the voting, especially after the compliments your Madrid pic got

pullandbang wrote: »

.....and here's me with my entry! Now these are set up and are all along the same theme. Hope someone likes them:)

As you can see I liked two of them:) The first one because it took me a while to find the one (was checking the numbers first ) and in both the symmetry. Apart from having an odd one out that makes the pictures to me.

The same theme is fine to me here as it is not as obvious and quite abstract.

keps wrote: »

Just interesting to note - that the out of focus flowers and the glasses in front of the bread-bin have got between them 5 votes- while my attempts between them have a eurovision type 'nul points'.

First point - Take a look around the thread. Your images are not in the exclusive position (at time of writing) to not have received a vote. Don't worry - you are not alone in this.

keps wrote: »

Obviously my photographic and creative talents are so short of what is required on this elite forum that there is little point in hanging around.

You really need to read a bit more around this forum. This may actually be the furthest place on the internet from being elite.

Personal point of view here - there are many images on this assignment thread (which happen to include your own) which haven't caught my imagination and I don't feel they were creative enough to warrant a vote. A few have. It doesn't mean that anyone I haven't voted on is a bad photographer or can't be creative. It just means that they haven't caught my imagination. Many of these posters may be much better photographers than me.

I've personally thought about this assignment but haven't yet come up with anything which I feel is worthy and creatively clever to represent the topic. I did think of getting two of one thing and one of another, but felt it was too drab for the theme and the theme of the assignment could/should be responded to with far more creativity. Like the contrast assignment, I may even post after the assignment is finished if I come up with something that I feel is creative enough.

I might add balance lest you feel I am having a go at you - I personally think that some of your photographs posted on the random thread are quite excellent. That isn't massaging an ego - it's simply how I feel personally. We must however respect that others may not feel like that.

The purpose of the assignments isn't purely to cream up votes (thanks), its to stretch yourself so that you will benefit. If you have benefited from your submissions on this thread then I say good on you and well done. That's the purpose of the thread. If this thread has only encouraged you to do something that you could have easily churned out before the assignment was announced then in my personal opinion it hasn't benefited you.

keps wrote: »

I will go somewhere where the standards are not so exacting(and the fellow members are a bit fairer).

keps

I really fail to see your point for fellow members being a bit fairer. In fairness to the membership of this forum, you will find some of the most helpful people that you are likely to find partaking here in this forum - unselfishly giving help to people who ask for it and even encouraging those who don't ask. They don't massage anyone's ego. You get honest opinion. If that isn't what you are looking for then perhaps this isn't the correct piece of space on the virtual landscape for you. You are of course welcome to participate on the same basis as everyone else about the place.

Hope that helps.

I like the way you think, pullandbang. I'd a similar creation in mind (not with shotgun cartridges) but now you've blown it away. Glad I don't have the unused cartridge to hand at the moment.

My first post on this forum and it's a moan.....but I've got to vote for the first pic.

Eh, how do I vote?

I did tick somebody off with my serial posting.....but I did get my thumb....and I did vote for pullandbang's first pic......and I did say thanks to KarmaGarda before the mod removed my enabling posts.....

...I'll be penitent now...sorry...wont happen again....

Thanks to all who took the time to reply to my whinging post!

Of course you are all dead right and I was acting like a spoiled brat(which really I'm not). Sorry about that!

Only excusse is that I was up at 6 30 am to travel West - had a tough day's work and kinda was disappointed to see not one person liked one photo!

Maybe if I had posted this one of the bottles - it may have been a bit more viewer friendly and rest assured - I am not looking for sympathy votes- and I know I would not get them here anyway.
Maybe people would confirm that at least this is a step in the right direction.
Hope to get to Clonmacnoise for an hour after work tomorrow - so if I get any nice shots I will post them on 'random' (unless I find an o'dd one out' 9th century celtic cross!)

Regards Keps

Yeah, I agree with The Black Kitten . Much improved in my eyes too, and I like the perspective you used.

THIS PHOTO DOES NOT QUALIFY AS IT WAS TAKEN B4 THE SPECIFIED PERIOD- but just to show you I like close ups of wine bottles:cool:
BTW which would you say is the odd one out?

pullandbang wrote: »

Third one from the left.

It's a full bodied Chateau Haute Terre produced on the western slopes of the hill. The grapes were manured by an albino donkey. It's light on the nose, with a hint of apricots.

All the others were from the Eastern slopes of the hill.

You got it in one - give that man a bottle of wine (from a donkey manured vineyard)

pullandbang wrote: »

Question is though, where the f##k did you get all those 2's?

Hehehehehehe!

I had another pic in my mind for the 2c, so I got €10 worth sitting in bags!
Now I gotta count the sods back into €2 lots