Disc Golf in Downtown Asheville, NC!

[SCraig]

Sorry, but until I Read your comment about the first shot being them playing off the building I thought it was just a snapshot of spectators on top of a building. In fact, had the title of this topic not been about disc golf I'm not sure I would have noticed the disc in any of the shots except for #4 and the last one in post #15.

I don't know anything about the game itself, but somehow you need to find a way to emphasize what is going on without having to explain it. Perhaps a shot of a player just as he releases the disc or something. Perhaps cropping #4 so that it shows the player, the disc, and the basket and isn't half background clutter. All I know is that a little bitty disc gets lost in a sea of background very easily and if these were hanging on a wall I would have absolutely no clue what most of them were except urban street shots of some city.

 

[charlie76]

Ok ok ok...I found the problem. Even fancy disc golf competitions on tops of buildings are really really boring?

 

[imagemaker46]

So you would limit the field of the event to the athlete and not what the athlete is accomplishing? For #1 would you rather see the face of the thrower, which is seen in many other images, or the complete view of what he is trying to accomplish? Of course I know now people only critique images you posted and don't bother looking at others :/... Here is the other view, which is very similar to other photos in the gallery I posted.

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And from my gallery here is #3 only showing the golfer and not the wall of windows behind him.

Did you read my post about picking only the best shots? These two aren't much better than the first four you posted. As for people not looking at galleries, the majority would only go to the galleries if the they saw photos that inspired them enough to want to see more. This goes back to posting only your best, I didn't really want to see anything else based on the quality of the first four.

 

[vonDrehle]

I was responding to someone else and showing examples as to what I was talking about. So again please read before posting your opinions, which at this point I don't even care about. The first one is not my photo it is the girls picture you were so adamant about having a better position than me. The other one is the same picture as #3.

 

[vonDrehle]

Sorry, but until I Read your comment about the first shot being them playing off the building I thought it was just a snapshot of spectators on top of a building. In fact, had the title of this topic not been about disc golf I'm not sure I would have noticed the disc in any of the shots except for #4 and the last one in post #15.

I don't know anything about the game itself, but somehow you need to find a way to emphasize what is going on without having to explain it. Perhaps a shot of a player just as he releases the disc or something. Perhaps cropping #4 so that it shows the player, the disc, and the basket and isn't half background clutter. All I know is that a little bitty disc gets lost in a sea of background very easily and if these were hanging on a wall I would have absolutely no clue what most of them were except urban street shots of some city.

The photos I picked were more focused on the urban aspect of what was happening as I thought that is what was unique about the event. On a regular disc golf course those type of shots aren't even possible to get.

I know from now on to only post the "good" pics to the forum. I have 79 pictures and people keep critiquing the ones I showed when I have done the exact things they are saying within the gallery. I was trying to show off the event and get comments about the event not necessarily the 4 pics I posted.

 

[imagemaker46]

You are the type that believes that you are better than you are and no amount of comments will ever make you happy unless they are candy coated. All your family and friends tell you how great you are and when you get some honest opinion from a professional photographer you will argue the fact. You just own a camera, and that's all. You did document a unique event going on downtown, that's all, and I guess that that this is the best you can do, so be happy, it doesn't mean that you can't improve your photographic skills, improving your "I'm great attitude" would be the first step. Be happy anyone has taken the time to comment, no one else gives a crap. Maybe you can get a friend to join the forum and toss some praise your way.

 

[SCraig]

The photos I picked were more focused on the urban aspect of what was happening as I thought that is what was unique about the event. On a regular disc golf course those type of shots aren't even possible to get.

I know from now on to only post the "good" pics to the forum. I have 79 pictures and people keep critiquing the ones I showed when I have done the exact things they are saying within the gallery. I was trying to show off the event and get comments about the event not necessarily the 4 pics I posted.

If you post four photographs for comment then those ARE the photographs that people are going to comment on, not those in a gallery somewhere else. People aren't going to go to Flickr or some other gallery site to see more of the same unless the photographs you post are good enough to entice them to do so.

The four that you posted were rather uninteresting as far as the event goes. They may have shown downtown Asheville, a couple of them might even have shown people playing disc golf, but there was nothing in those four photographs that would have given me the impression that it was an unusual, unique or important event. All I saw, at most, was a couple of guys throwing a Frisbee.

Look at them honestly and tell me I'm wrong. The first one shows a building with some guys standing on top, nothing more. Oh, wait, maybe that little dot about the size of dust on a sensor has something to do with the shot. The second: A guy throwing a Frisbee in downtown Anywhere, USA. The third shot: The side of a building with some people at the bottom of it. The fourth: A guy playing disc golf somewhere with a bunch of people watching.

How you choose to present your photographs is, of course, up to you. These four, to tell the honest truth, do not stand on their own. They were just not interesting enough to entice me to look at the remainder of the gallery. After reading these posts I did look through it and there are some that are far more interesting than these are. Number 58, for example, also shows the urban aspect of the event but the viewer can at least tell that it is an organized disc golf event and not just the side of a building.

Just my 2-cents worth. Take it as you will.

 

[vonDrehle]

You are the type that believes that you are better than you are and no amount of comments will ever make you happy unless they are candy coated. All your family and friends tell you how great you are and when you get some honest opinion from a professional photographer you will argue the fact. You just own a camera, and that's all. You did document a unique event going on downtown, that's all, and I guess that that this is the best you can do, so be happy, it doesn't mean that you can't improve your photographic skills, improving your "I'm great attitude" would be the first step. Be happy anyone has taken the time to comment, no one else gives a crap. Maybe you can get a friend to join the forum and toss some praise your way.

Seriously now you are making accusations about my character. Someone makes a decent comment and critique and I try and continue the discussion about it and you jump in say that more pics I posted are terrible again without giving any helpful critique. All you have done is make negative comments without giving any sort of helpful information that I could use. Perhaps you were having a bad day but the fact that you would come to a thread and say, "Point and shoot without thought" and not give any helpful information tells me enough about you that regardless of your skills I would rather have opinions from others.

The photos I picked were more focused on the urban aspect of what was happening as I thought that is what was unique about the event. On a regular disc golf course those type of shots aren't even possible to get.

I know from now on to only post the "good" pics to the forum. I have 79 pictures and people keep critiquing the ones I showed when I have done the exact things they are saying within the gallery. I was trying to show off the event and get comments about the event not necessarily the 4 pics I posted.

If you post four photographs for comment then those ARE the photographs that people are going to comment on, not those in a gallery somewhere else. People aren't going to go to Flickr or some other gallery site to see more of the same unless the photographs you post are good enough to entice them to do so.

The four that you posted were rather uninteresting as far as the event goes. They may have shown downtown Asheville, a couple of them might even have shown people playing disc golf, but there was nothing in those four photographs that would have given me the impression that it was an unusual, unique or important event. All I saw, at most, was a couple of guys throwing a Frisbee.

Look at them honestly and tell me I'm wrong. The first one shows a building with some guys standing on top, nothing more. Oh, wait, maybe that little dot about the size of dust on a sensor has something to do with the shot. The second: A guy throwing a Frisbee in downtown Anywhere, USA. The third shot: The side of a building with some people at the bottom of it. The fourth: A guy playing disc golf somewhere with a bunch of people watching.

How you choose to present your photographs is, of course, up to you. These four, to tell the honest truth, do not stand on their own. They were just not interesting enough to entice me to look at the remainder of the gallery. After reading these posts I did look through it and there are some that are far more interesting than these are. Number 58, for example, also shows the urban aspect of the event but the viewer can at least tell that it is an organized disc golf event and not just the side of a building.

Just my 2-cents worth. Take it as you will.

I wasn't try to argue for them before was just stating my mindset for picking those particular shots. I thought the first one was really cool because you don't see professionals playing off the top of a building very often but I can understand how others don't see that and just see a building. Thanks for giving helpful critique and advice.

 

[imagemaker46]

How can you tell that they are professionals standing on the top of a roof, where in the photo does it say that? It shows some people on the roof of a building? As a stand alone photo, that is all it shows, nothing more. There is little that can be said about the photo, the exposure is fine, the composition is fine, I'm sure the people are fine, the building looks fine. If you take away your explanation of what it is, what would you say about this photo that makes it a good photo?

About your character, you are one that called me an A-hole twice in this thread, one time removed by the admin. That says a lot about your character, you can't deal with anything negative. If you want me to break each photo down into what is technically wrong, I can do that, but the bottom line is that you still wouldn't like what you'd be reading.

 

[vonDrehle]

Was just calling a spade a spade. You honestly think stopping by a thread and just saying, "Point and shoot without thought" is friendly or helpful in any way at all? And in my last post I said I could see why people would not see that in the image. Why are you running in circles still bashing it? I understood the first 20 times you said it, it is just a picture of people on a building...

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Is it time to break out the Meme's and Videos?

 

[rdubb1031]

You are the type that believes that you are better than you are and no amount of comments will ever make you happy unless they are candy coated. All your family and friends tell you how great you are and when you get some honest opinion from a professional photographer you will argue the fact. You just own a camera, and that's all. You did document a unique event going on downtown, that's all, and I guess that that this is the best you can do, so be happy, it doesn't mean that you can't improve your photographic skills, improving your "I'm great attitude" would be the first step. Be happy anyone has taken the time to comment, no one else gives a crap. Maybe you can get a friend to join the forum and toss some praise your way.

I'm going to jump in on the OP's behalf... you are what is wrong with this forum. You are not the Allknowing so why don't you leave this thread and let the OP get some valuabe comments and not your negative crap.

There sure are a handful of people on this forum who feel that belittling you is the only way to give C&C and this is BS. I'm on this forum to learn. If every teacher in this world "taught" the same way you do what kind of society would we live in? Quit trying to sell me that your poor attitude is acceptable, because its not.

Sorry OP this stuff has gotten to me lately and i'd hate for you to lose the opportunity to pick up some pointers beccause of this guy.

 

[HughGuessWho99 14]

And we're off.....

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

And we're off.....

Yup!

Two people for the ignore list.

 

[HughGuessWho99 14]

We should start opening a pool to see at what comment number these threads get closed.