Morning Gummy and Tybin !
Gummy ! We had a good time and my tank and scubagen were drooled over ! Did you see the pics ??
Gummy ! We had a good time and my tank and scubagen were drooled over ! Did you see the pics ??
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cool, thanks. I think that those guys all know each other kinda like we do here. It is hard to understand why some of their stuff gets such high votes and other stuff gets so low votes. There is some good stuff there that is better than my work but it is very low too. Go figure???????
Gummy it's probably just another case who you know. Unfortunately that is how the world works these days. 
Morn-- er, afternoon all. Late night, late morning. Eggs 'n bacon would go down real nice now.
Cool pic! I used to frequent W1K a lot. Entered a few paid contests but never did well. I did get a few silvers and bronzes in amateur contests though. Never a gold. The folks at W1K are incredibly picky about even minor issues with 'chops, and there's a couple they might be picking up on here. The hand seems a bit bright -- maybe a little lower contrast and slightly warmer would make it fit the overall tones of the source image better, although that could just be me. Also, the reflection of the hippie in the sight's lens shows him throwing a peace sign with the same hand he's using to insert the flower into the barrel. The rest looks great to me, though -- especially the peace patch on the soldier's arm. I was never good at the badge contests.
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In case anyone wants to see it.
Cool pic! I used to frequent W1K a lot. Entered a few paid contests but never did well. I did get a few silvers and bronzes in amateur contests though. Never a gold.
The folks at W1K are incredibly picky about even minor issues with 'chops, and there's a couple they might be picking up on here. The hand seems a bit bright -- maybe a little lower contrast and slightly warmer would make it fit the overall tones of the source image better, although that could just be me. Also, the reflection of the hippie in the sight's lens shows him throwing a peace sign with the same hand he's using to insert the flower into the barrel. The rest looks great to me, though -- especially the peace patch on the soldier's arm. I was never good at the badge contests.
I can't believe the detail that you noticed mindfield. wow. (i didn't even SEE the reflection in the gunsight) Love the image gummy!
BTW, Jacinda first posted around 3:30 CST. Darkwitless posted a few days later....
BTW, Jacinda first posted around 3:30 CST. Darkwitless posted a few days later....
Mindfield,
Yea they are very picky, As for your advice. I asked for a mentor to help me with this before it posted it. I had the hand warmer, two of their regulars told me to brighten it up to where it is now. and one mentioned the hand thing and had me flip it to where it is now because they said It isn't suppose to be the same person as the one with the flower. I think I will post the stupidest thing I can come up with and see how it does.
Yea they are very picky, As for your advice. I asked for a mentor to help me with this before it posted it. I had the hand warmer, two of their regulars told me to brighten it up to where it is now. and one mentioned the hand thing and had me flip it to where it is now because they said It isn't suppose to be the same person as the one with the flower. I think I will post the stupidest thing I can come up with and see how it does.
Well that could mean and early for Jacinda and a BIG question mark for Dark!!
Sounds like you should ask them for help next time... but do the opposite of what they tell you.
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Heh -- that's probably not a bad idea.
Although in general voters seem to get the votes right in a coarser granularity, but when it comes to the top ranked chops, it starts coming down to personal taste and ephemeral things like how you approached the image (humour, cuteness, etc.) and even the choice of source images (where the source wasn't pre-selected).As for the advice ... I dunno. Maybe the brightness and contrast comes down to personal taste but for me it just seems to pop a little too much, being the brightest thing in the scene. Again though, I've never won even an amateur contest (a few 2nds and thirds were my best) so take that advice for what it's worth. The reflection though I can't bring myself to agree with. Concave lenses would create a reverse, slightly pinched reflection that would make the image make sense, but that's a convex lens (the reflection drops off on the right side of the lens, indicating it's reflecting the right sidewall of the gunsight), so reflections would be a little fish-eyed and properly reflected -- like a mirror that's been pushed out a bit from behind.
I hope your mentor(s)/regulars didn't have a stake in that contest.
When it comes to Worth1000 I'm used to looking at finer details. To the entrants and voters there, every little detail could mean gaining or losing a rank, so you kind of learn to get ridiculously critical -- both of your own and other people's.
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...can't believe they told you to flip the hand to the opposite ! I really like the pic tho Gummy !
LOL - I'm pretty sure I joined in the evening - I was going to post - and changed my mind after using the search feature to find the answer to my question. Then I realized that in order to post outside the newbies section I had to actually post IN the noobs section...and away I went.
DH decreed a year of being smoke free as dinner out worthy! He never smoked and never understood the addiction. This is the longest I've gone smoke free other than pregnancy and nursing in the past 30 years.
A nice reward Dark!!!
Enjoy but hope you are bad when you turn!!!!
Hi Atty
And can't remember so hi Mind
Enjoy but hope you are bad when you turn!!!!
Hi Atty
And can't remember so hi Mind
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