Competitiveness

[aggienaut]

   A picture of mine on flickr, of the Redding Sundial bridge:

Views: 2
Favourited: 0 times
Comments: 0


   Now, an overexposed and all around mediocre picture of that same bridge by someone else on flickr:

Views: 15,720
Favourited: 149 times
Comments: a metric shit-ton.


   Just goes to show the power of totally whoring out your pictures by posting them to 6 groups, and giving it 71 tags. Including such tags as "garden" "engineer" and a whole bunch of strange things like "interestingness=3" and "top-v444". Is this some voodoo that fools search engines into thinking it's more interesting than it actually is?

   Though I guess now I'm gonna go put my own bridge pictures up on the bridge group. Maybe I can get a third view out of it.


Photo Idol!!
   Now speaking of competing photos, (and totally whoring oneself out) I was thinking the other day about a "LJ Idol" style LJ Photo contest. With all due credit to LJ Idol and the illustrious LJ Idol administrator Gary of course.
   But yeah, I'm taking a photo class at the local JC right now, and we have weekly assignments (this week I have to come up with some portraits /: ) and I was thinking, it's like LJ Idol but with photos! ...and not getting voted out.
   Anyway, it seems to me highly likely that there already is such a contest on LJ. Anyone know anything about this?


30 in 30 VI!
   And speaking of shenanigans, June is quickly approaching, which is traditionally the time for 30 posts in 30 days. The ultimate event of the blogosphere. No one get's voted out, but about 2/3rds of people who make the attempt just can't hack it. So who's up to join the brave and valiant 30 in 30 elite? (:

Comments

[fsk8ing-judge.livejournal.com]

That second photo could have been fixed in Photoshop. And I like the photographer's composition. But I prefer yours because you're not sure what's happening at the end of the bridge--I like the fall-off effect. The second photo is a really nice shot of a bridge; your photo is a really good shot that makes you think, makes you wonder. And the photographer who taught me always said anyone can take a nicely composed photo, but only an artist can stir the emotion. And you did, you made me wonder.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly! The other person's picture here is just a picture of the bridge. Yes it's a pretty bridge, but there's absolutely nothing artistic or interesting about the picture other than the inherent qualities of the bridge itself. Also yes it looks like he tweaked up the saturation too much, which has also been bothering me.