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lj_photophile made the photo-of-the-week poll. As far as I have been able to figure out, the community's home page not being rife with anything resembling instructions, once a photo goes up, it's possible to hit a clicky at the community page to indicate you like a shot. Enough clicky votes and you're in photo-of-the-week. They also do themed polls too.
OK, granted, I knew I wanted to debut with a "Wow" moment as my first posting when I went surfing through my files for something to put up. I was thrilled to have made the cut. I looked again tonight and I am in an extremely respectable third place against a stunning technicolor beach scape and a clever visual pun involving something cute and furry.
The bemused part comes when one starts reading the comments, which include a rather idiotic anti-cat thread and a post in Russian that was long enough I figured it wasn't a "Hey, I really like photo # ____". So I ran it through Google Translate and discovered it's a complaint about the leading photo having been submitted by a professional photographer.
The community has no prohibitions against professionals. As long as members post according to the group's guidelines, all is good.
Now, while my vanity is tickled by my spot in this week's poll, I don't give a rat's backside if I win LJ tokens, I participate because it's a way to get ideas and learn how to take better pictures. Just as I look at everything![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
didjiman posts. I may not consciously set out thinking, "I want to make a photo that looks like that," but it gets filed in the back of my head, just as two semesters of art history and years of looking at paintings in museums and buying Dad his Ansel Adams calendars every Christmas probably have something to do with how I compose a shot. I went and looked at the poll leader's journal and yes, she's a professional and you can see more of her work there. It's good, it's professional, and it's not a style I'm likely to imitate, but someone else out there might get inspiration from it by seeing it in lj_photophile and that's not a bad thing.
So I wrote a response ......and ran it through Google Translate.
lj_photophile made the photo-of-the-week poll. As far as I have been able to figure out, the community's home page not being rife with anything resembling instructions, once a photo goes up, it's possible to hit a clicky at the community page to indicate you like a shot. Enough clicky votes and you're in photo-of-the-week. They also do themed polls too. OK, granted, I knew I wanted to debut with a "Wow" moment as my first posting when I went surfing through my files for something to put up. I was thrilled to have made the cut. I looked again tonight and I am in an extremely respectable third place against a stunning technicolor beach scape and a clever visual pun involving something cute and furry.
The bemused part comes when one starts reading the comments, which include a rather idiotic anti-cat thread and a post in Russian that was long enough I figured it wasn't a "Hey, I really like photo # ____". So I ran it through Google Translate and discovered it's a complaint about the leading photo having been submitted by a professional photographer.
The community has no prohibitions against professionals. As long as members post according to the group's guidelines, all is good.
Now, while my vanity is tickled by my spot in this week's poll, I don't give a rat's backside if I win LJ tokens, I participate because it's a way to get ideas and learn how to take better pictures. Just as I look at everything
didjiman posts. I may not consciously set out thinking, "I want to make a photo that looks like that," but it gets filed in the back of my head, just as two semesters of art history and years of looking at paintings in museums and buying Dad his Ansel Adams calendars every Christmas probably have something to do with how I compose a shot. I went and looked at the poll leader's journal and yes, she's a professional and you can see more of her work there. It's good, it's professional, and it's not a style I'm likely to imitate, but someone else out there might get inspiration from it by seeing it in lj_photophile and that's not a bad thing. So I wrote a response ......and ran it through Google Translate.
