The 15th UK South-East "Has anyone seen Wayne?" Thread (All Welcome)

[felt_tip_felon]

Originally Posted by Ronin Silv

Same as Awsome bar the personalized portfolio bit.

I think I'll opt for that at renewal then - I don't really make use of the portfolio if I'm honest!

[Ronin Silv]

Thanks for the comment on 500px just now Lee, I had a bit of feed back about that one a few days ago as another photographer Sian has worked with in the past saw it and asked her where she had it taken, who by and what camera and lens etc and didn't believe her when she said it was taken in my front room with a 450d he's conviced she's been to some pro studio to have shots done. Now while I don't like to blow my own trumpet a comment like that does make me feel good especially when I can see everything I did wrong when I shot it.

[felt_tip_felon]

Originally Posted by Ronin Silv

Thanks for the comment on 500px just now Lee, I had a bit of feed back about that one a few days ago as another photographer Sian has worked with in the past saw it and asked her where she had it taken, who by and what camera and lens etc and didn't believe her when she said it was taken in my front room with a 450d he's conviced she's been to some pro studio to have shots done. Now while I don't like to blow my own trumpet a comment like that does make me feel good especially when I can see everything I did wrong when I shot it.

confirmation indeed - that it is the photographer and not the camera/lens/kit that makes a great photo... I would bask in the smugness

[madseavets]

Originally Posted by felt_tip_felon

there's a statistics section in the "YOU" tab on the "awesome" package - it's often easy to spot without this insight as the picture will be doing well within a day then suddenly plummet for no reason

One of mine did well in the first couple of days then plummeted, while others have been unchanged for months. I couldn't see the "dislike" stats but guessed that was the reason! Lately, I've seen a lot of people putting up multiple versions of the same shoot. Not quite as bad as Flickr though - where people seem to upload entire memory cards of a single shoot!

[felt_tip_felon]

Originally Posted by madseavets

One of mine did well in the first couple of days then plummeted, while others have been unchanged for months. I couldn't see the "dislike" stats but guessed that was the reason! Lately, I've seen a lot of people putting up multiple versions of the same shoot. Not quite as bad as Flickr though - where people seem to upload entire memory cards of a single shoot!

typically (and, Mark, feel free to correct me here) an image does best on day one - after that any additional votes/likes/faves have less of an effect and in fact can actually bring the 'pulse' down - they have added a highest 'pulse' so you can actually see the best it has done - it certainly seems it's all about immediate impact with 500px

[Ronin Silv]

Originally Posted by felt_tip_felon

confirmation indeed - that it is the photographer and not the camera/lens/kit that makes a great photo... I would bask in the smugness

Smug mode was engaged when she told me

[Kaben]

Originally Posted by bridge99

its been going on for a while and is getting worst, the really popular pics get bombarded with people spamming stuff for sale and blatantly vote scrounging, also a lot of swearing and people just being well rude, I did get this email yesterday from the admins which had this piece of info in it:

That is why currently we are working on improving the algorithm, we are also going to introduce new factors encouraging photographers to leave constructive criticism.

not thats got anything to do with the selling stuff but its nice to think they might try and make the voting fairer..

Thats what i asked for in my post to them a while back which eventually had 2 or 3 500px developers responding to it. Then someone came in throwing abuse and the thread got stripped out and closed

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Ronin Silv

Smug mode

My, that takes me back...

[Pete]

Something very wicked this way comes.

Details on Saturday.

[Klystron]

Originally Posted by Pete

My, that takes me back...

Red Dwarf ?

[Ronin Silv]

Originally Posted by Klystron

Red Dwarf ?

Yes

[Ronin Silv]

Originally Posted by Pete

Something very wicked this way comes.

Details on Saturday.

A new bit of hardware of some sort on the way Pete?

[Klystron]

Originally Posted by Ronin Silv

Yes

I'm in the middle of watching the fifth series

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Ronin Silv

A new bit of hardware of some sort on the way Pete?

Wait and see. Or guess if you like.

[Richard1959]

Need a de-stress due to the trains on the Late Great Western running .......... errrrr late very late, so while tea was cooking took the camera out into the garden and the wonderful spring evening sunshine