>>vote for challenge 33 winner <<

[Andy]

joechiu - oh my gosh, we won!
http://www.joechiu.com/images/shootoutwinner.jpg

adrian_k - here's grumpy
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Adrian_K/ch33_grumpy.jpg

canonguy - can you feel it in your soul?
http://peart.smugmug.com/photos/16640021-L.jpg

purified - frustration
http://gallery.greatestjournal.com/albums/up2/995/108995/frustration.jpg

digital faerie - fear
http://digitalfaerie.smugmug.com/photos/16922631-L.jpg

wxwax - grooving
http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/17041246-L.jpg (http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=17041246)

mitchell - pride
http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/17070808-L.jpg

luckyhack - rapture
http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/17070868-L.jpg

spockling - pretty in pink
http://members.shaw.ca/betlin/PrettyinPink.jpg

freeups - comosure
http://freeupsphotography.smugmug.com/photos/17009945-O.jpg

[Andy]

forgot to add:

finalists chosen by dan koyanagi (ch 32 winner) and me. dan and i matched on 8 of the choices.

[landrum]

Congrats to everyone...I had a VERY hard time deciding on this one!


:clap :clap :clap :clap :clap

[lynnma]

Congrats to everyone :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap what a great turnout and some wonderful shots:clap :clap :clap and for those of us who did'nt make it..

quick.. back to the camera it's Minimalism.. lets get to it :clap :clap :clap :clap :rofl :rofl

[dkoyanagi]

Great job everybody! :thumb:thumb

[ginger_55]

I feel very minimal today. As in every muscle hurts, and I am dead tired. Am having a book sent from the main library on minimalism. Might feel better by then. This bird photography could kill someone like me who just turned 65.

Great finalists, really great:clap :clap :clap

Great entrants in general. Slow to start but you all caming screaming to the finish line.:clap :clap


So MANY entrants! With a difficult subject, too.:thumb

See ya at your minimal threads,
ginger

[DoctorIt]

a couple great later entries. another great lot of finalists :thumb

[FreeUps]

Great entries! Good luck Grinners! :D :D :D

[Mitchell]

Andy, Andy, Andy:rolleyes

People will now start to think that the fix is in. How could you pick my shot as a finalist over all those other great entries!!!

Best of luck everyone!!:clap

mitch

[Mitchell]

forgot to add:

finalists chosen by dan koyanagi (ch 32 winner) and me. dan and i matched on 8 of the choices.
I think everyone here appreciates this bit of information. :thumb

[aero-nut]

Agreed. Very awsome turnout! On to the next one!:lift

[Nee7x7]

The competition just gets tighter and tighter! ...and Mitchell, your photo of the proud boy scout (your son?) with his trophy was really charming, so of course it belongs here!

Congrats to all...it was a very well rounded group of photos, and the subject certainly wasn't as easy as we first thought it would be!

Cheers!
~Nee :rolleyes

[JamesJWeg]

I found myself wishing that I could vote for more than one choice :D Some good shots there.

James.

[lynnma]

I found myself wishing that I could vote for more than one choice :D Some good shots there.

James.Mitchell.. the boy scout "proud" shot was an absolute finalist.. could'nt mistake that emotion :clap

[dugmar]

I have to be honest, "here's grumpy", "frustration" and "fear" look totally staged to me, so obvious that the emtions look almost overdone, therefore fake. Does anyone agree here? In "comosure" I'm not feeling any emotion at all coming from that. All great shots, nicely composed, but the emotions only look "real" in a few.

"can you feel it in your soul?" gets my vote for the one that nailed it on the head.

Doug

[wxwax]

I have to be honest, stuff
Dude, the poll's still open. :huh Maybe those comments would be better placed in the individual threads where these shots were first displayed.

[dugmar]

Dude, the poll's still open. :huh Maybe those comments would be better placed in the individual threads where these shots were first displayed.
My first deleted post! I'm so proud!

I would apologize if this thread didn't contain comments on individual photos, but it does, so I don't feel my post was out of line, so I won't.

-Dude

[Andy]

My first deleted post! I'm so proud!

I would apologize if this thread didn't contain comments on individual photos, but it does, so I don't feel my post was out of line, so I won't.

-Dude

i guess that's becuase they were more congratulatory of the finalist. but in the end, you are right, it' probably not appropriate for any comments either way in this thread until the voting is close. no apologies necessary!

[Andy]

i have deleted posts that have comments about the finalists - so as not to influence voting, i'll leave them deleted until the voting closes, at which time i'll bring them back.

[Andy]

i have deleted posts that have comments about the finalists - so as not to influence voting, i'll leave them deleted until the voting closes, at which time i'll bring them back.

restored.

[digital faerie]

I have to be honest, "here's grumpy", "frustration" and "fear" look totally staged to me, so obvious that the emtions look almost overdone, therefore fake. Does anyone agree here? In "comosure" I'm not feeling any emotion at all coming from that. All great shots, nicely composed, but the emotions only look "real" in a few.

"can you feel it in your soul?" gets my vote for the one that nailed it on the head.

Doug
so....tell us how you really feel :lol4

[Charlie Brown]

damn dug, take the stick out and have a seat. whats the problem, is there really a need to badmouth other people or their shots? really dude, thats super weak.



charlie

[adrian_k]

maybe you should try getting a four year old to fake an emotion. I can assure you it was not staged and that my daughter only pulls that face when the camera's pointed at her. If you care to dig out my original post you'll find some explanation.

On the other hand, whereas we have "no photoshop challenges", there was no "no staged scene" clause.

cheers,

I have to be honest, "here's grumpy", "frustration" and "fear" look totally staged to me, so obvious that the emtions look almost overdone, therefore fake. Does anyone agree here? In "comosure" I'm not feeling any emotion at all coming from that. All great shots, nicely composed, but the emotions only look "real" in a few.

"can you feel it in your soul?" gets my vote for the one that nailed it on the head.

Doug

[DoctorIt]

Now now, everyone settle down a bit...

First, can everyone read Dug's post before flaming him? He didn't badmouth anyone (so chuck, maybe you should chill out before throwing out lewd comments). All he did was state his opinion in a pretty non aggressive way. One of the things people need to realize is that as this site continues to grow, we can't just always be "hey great shot", "nice work", we're here to learn and critisize/share opinions. Dug wasn't telling Adrian the shot was bad, just that it was not up his alley. I can sympathize, for example, I like street shooting much better than posed studio work... is there anything wrong with that?

I hope this place doesn't become "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it". We're not school kids.

[wxwax]

Now now, everyone settle down a bit...

First, can everyone read Dug's post before flaming him? He didn't badmouth anyone (so chuck, maybe you should chill out before throwing out lewd comments). All he did was state his opinion in a pretty non aggressive way. One of the things people need to realize is that as this site continues to grow, we can't just always be "hey great shot", "nice work", we're here to learn and critisize/share opinions. Dug wasn't telling Adrian the shot was bad, just that it was not up his alley. I can sympathize, for example, I like street shooting much better than posed studio work... is there anything wrong with that?

I hope this place doesn't become "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it". We're not school kids.
:thumb Absolutely. And the place to say it is in the critique threads, where it isn't easy being as straightforward as Doug was, but where it's really valuable to the shooter. :nod

[Lucky Hack]

Now now, everyone settle down a bit...

First, can everyone read Dug's post before flaming him? He didn't badmouth anyone (so chuck, maybe you should chill out before throwing out lewd comments). All he did was state his opinion in a pretty non aggressive way. One of the things people need to realize is that as this site continues to grow, we can't just always be "hey great shot", "nice work", we're here to learn and critisize/share opinions. Dug wasn't telling Adrian the shot was bad, just that it was not up his alley. I can sympathize, for example, I like street shooting much better than posed studio work... is there anything wrong with that?

I hope this place doesn't become "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it". We're not school kids. I agree. With that established, as the Ralph Nader of the contest :rofl I'd like to know what was missing from my entry:scratch I need feedback, and from here on out I am giving anyone permission to be brutally honest, (I wouldn't do the same unless someone asked) don't be shy, you don't even have to be polite, just be honest.

Also, it's obvious why the winner won, the photograph was amazing! I'm not suggesting that I should have won, I just didn't expect to end up dead last. (thank you to whoever that was that voted for me:D)

Was it a technical aspect of the photo?
Was it that no one can relate to the idea of rapture? (too esoteric?)
Does it look like this guy isn't in rapture?
Something else?

hoping this message finds you well -Ian

[DoctorIt]

I agree. With that established, as the Ralph Nader of the contest :rofl I'd like to know what was missing from my entry:scratch I need feedback, and from here on out I am giving anyone permission to be brutally honest, (I wouldn't do the same unless someone asked) don't be shy, you don't even have to be polite, just be honest.

Also, it's obvious why the winner won, the photograph was amazing! I'm not suggesting that I should have won, I just didn't expect to end up dead last. (thank you to whoever that was that voted for me:D)

Was it a technical aspect of the photo?
Was it that no one can relate to the idea of rapture? (too esoteric?)
Does it look like this guy isn't in rapture?
Something else?

hoping this message finds you well -IanHey Ian, read waxy's above post (which I strongly agree with), then check your thread for comments on this shot. I'll leave you one over there.