 Mundy Hackett |
DD - EPP - Where are they? I have been religously submitting an image a day into the Digital Darkroom category this month, and unless folks are blowing smoke up my trousers a couple of them were pretty darn dramatic and good. And yet not one, not a single EPP? Are they not good enough? Is it because they are primarily filter driven? IS it someething else related to the apparent dramatic, precipitous decline in EPP's contest wide? I regularly get EPP in other categories, so what gives? I don't want to waste my time creating these works for here if they are not good enough. Please help me understand!
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- Carolyn M. Fletcher  Contact Carolyn M. Fletcher Carolyn M. Fletcher's Gallery |
Not a darn thing wrong with your work! Everybody's getting less, and they haven't done any since the 10th. I had only 6 for the whole month of December, so we all go through bad times, I guess. I screamed my head off, so I guess you're entitled to a little question! Your stuff is great!
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hello Mundy, I have a question about a remark you made "I dont want to waste my time if they are not good enough". I really hope you are creating your art for other reasons other than a contest. You have created some very nice art and I hope you are doing this for your own enjoyment and for sharing your work with family, friends, potential customers & other BPers. I used to enter the contests more frequently and I enjoy looking through the entries but the contest is so big now and many outstanding works are overlooked (there are so many good ones) that I dont bother with it as often as I once did. Relax & keep up the great work. "Badges, we dont need no stinking badges" - John Belushi
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ScriptureExpressions.com - Leland N. Saunders Contact Leland N. Saunders Leland N. Saunders's Gallery |
Mundy ... this morning I posted the following to BP February 16, 2007 Comments ... ??
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Mundy Hackett |
Carolyn: Thank you for the compliments. Carlton: You make an excellent point, I guess what I meant to say more so though is that I am not normally an effects sort of person and it was distracting me from my more traditional nature imagery, but I thought they were cool and I was looking for some validation of this from the professional judges. Otherwise I would go back to doing the straight photography stuff as I do enjoy it more from a pure artistic creativity standpoint. But you make a great point that I do agree with. Leleand: I will be very interested to see if you get any response from management as they seem to basically avoid interacting with any and all topics of discussion where the sites goals and objectives are questioned.
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Jeana Clark |
Hey Mundy!! I find your work to be outstanding!!! I just browsed your gallery and am facinated by your work!!! Very well done indeed!!! I haven't received an EP since the 1st of this month...I thought it was because I'm not doing ENOUGH DDR work....who knows!!! It's frustrating I know...but keep up the good work!!! ~J~
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- Lisa J. Boulden Contact Lisa J. Boulden Lisa J. Boulden's Gallery |
Fabulous work, Mundy! I love what you've done with the Fractalius effect. In the middle of January, I discovered --and fell in love with-- the Fractalius effect. After most of my daily images during the first half of the month got EP's, I dropped to only 2 during the second half, when I had begun applying the frac. filter to a lot of my images (including many animal captures). I came to a personal conclusion that the judges may have been getting a little sick of that popular filter. (Although I hate to admit it, I was pretty bummed out at the drop in EP's the 2nd half of January.) This month, I've done well again (up until the tenth, that is). I generally stayed away from frac. One image, an eagle with the frac. filter used in the bg, but categorized under ANIMALS, got an EP. Today, I resubmitted a frac.-fruit still life that was passed over last month. Keep plugging along, Mundy. Your lovely work shines, with or without the aid of badges! ♥ Blessings, Lisa
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Sharon Day |
Gorgeous work, Mundy! I don't mean this in a bad way but after looking at your gallery I don't feel so bad that I'm not getting EFPs anymore :o). I can't hardly gripe when they're passing up photos like you have. This site has changed a lot the past few months. It will be interesting to see where it goes from here.
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- Angie Sidles Contact Angie Sidles Angie Sidles's Gallery |
I have also noticed a significant drop in EFP's lately, but particularly this month. I visit several galleries every day and have noticed that nobody has recieved a an EFP since the 10th of February, which is the case with me as well. Not necessarily for myself, but for others especially, I just have to wonder if the judges are maybe behind for some reason or another, becuase there is some FABULOUS work out there. Hmmmm, I guess we'll find out soon enough. :)
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Marianne Fortin |
Quote: "Not necessarily for myself, but for others especially, I just have to wonder if the judges are maybe behind for some reason or another, becuase there is some FABULOUS work out there." Could it be because now there are two contests to judge?
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- Dennis Flanagan Contact Dennis Flanagan Dennis Flanagan's Gallery |
The judges are not "behind" until the first day of the following month if no finalists and winners have been announced. There is no published schedule for EFPs.
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- Angie Sidles Contact Angie Sidles Angie Sidles's Gallery |
Dennis, I just meant that it was ironic that nobody seems to have seen an EFP since the 10th and normally EFP's pop up pretty much daily. I do realize that there is no schedule for them. :) Marianne, good question, I guess its a possibility. Do the entries for the cash contest recieve EFP's? Just curious.
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
The other day, they posted EPs for the 11th. But nothing for the next couple of days. If I were BP, and based on much forum anxiety over EPs, I'd make them visible at the same time finalists are awarded... That way, it's a surprise, no different than it used to be prior to them handing out EPs.
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- Elida Gutierrez Contact Elida Gutierrez Elida Gutierrez's Gallery |
I noticed the decreased numbers of EFP, but I was thinking "this month is short and the have 2 contest to judge". And about the DD, Mundy I hope that the pictures with Fractalius filter in your gallery you didn't post them in DD, because has become so popular that so many people have it and is very dificult to made a picture that stands out, it's not just to applied the filter and post the picture, if you see some past winner you can see the work they did be a winner.
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- Elida Gutierrez Contact Elida Gutierrez Elida Gutierrez's Gallery |
They where a little behind because the cash contest. http://www.betterphoto.com/contest/cashcontestwinners.php
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