wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: stats for discussion
Bjørn K Nilssen 2008-Jul-01 06:49:00
On 30 Jun 2008 at 16:54, Uri Cogan wrote:
> #removed# wrote:
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> > What do you think about a competion, where every participator of an
> > event has one vote to choose the best panorama for this event (every
> > pano but his own). That might be challanging. What do you think about it?
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> I am not attracted to this. The beauty and value of a collaborative,
> non-competitive effort is far greater for me than any competitive,
> point-collecting or ranking system.
I agree that we don't need a competition.
But after participating 10 times I'm really starting to lose interest. It feels like
sending your panos into a black hole, because there is no way to comment and discuss the
panos other than through email. In my pre-digital "former" life I had several exhibitions
(ceramics/sculpture), and an important part of that was getting feedback and discuss
things at the vernissage and later on. On the wwwp there's nothing happening after you
send it in - just that black hole feeling. In addition to getting feedback and discuss
your own work it is also very useful to be able to comment and discuss the work of
others, the different locations, techniques used etc. But unfortunately that's not
possible. I know this has been discussed before, and got a thumbs-down, which I still
think was a wrong decision. The number of participants in the wwp seems to be very
static, or even decreasing?
I have not decided yet if I will participate in the current event. I did some preliminary
shooting in a gorge, where I broke my pole and almost lost my camera into that gorge. But
during the short time frame I was too busy with work to be able to shoot any elevation
panos at all. I did shoot a pano though, a HDR from a building site, for 3D work as
environment/lighting/reflections. So my only choice would be to use that as a base for a
3D "elevation" pano, or make a pure 3D pano? Or I could try to find a way to justify the
use of the theme/title "elevation"? It's not very interesting though, with a lot of
stones and sand, and a few buildings around.
But, once again, why bother spending time on it when nobody will see it anyway?
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Bj?rn K Nilssen - http://bknilssen.no - panoramas and 3D