conners777:

Its the daily "Picture of the Day" 1 main picture and 3 mini pictures on the front page of this website.

 

Thanks JD never noticed that before ... bit small innit

JD:

Positive reasons for me are an interesting composition, skill behind the lens as opposed to being able to click a few Photoshop filters and doing something different. Positive reasons are not that the photographer is your bestest buddy.

As for the locals, this isn't the local bingo hall. More cliquiness is the last thing this place needs.

I think we must all remember that it's a subjective decision. What one of us finds stunning is a load of dross to another. Hundreds of photos must be uploaded to the galleries every day, looking through them and finding the one that stands above the rest is probably not trivial.

I think the greatest advantage of the forum is the "cliquiness", and one of the reasons I keep coming back. I've made friends here (I think I have at least...), and there is a low level of anonymous noise.

H.

PS. I'm still smug from getting on the front page today, though

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hevans:

PS. I'm still smug from getting on the front page today, though

You should be - great shot. In fact, having spent the last 10 mins browsing, your entire gallery is fantastic.

I think one of the main issues with choosing POTD for all of the team is the gallery system - we have to use the same browser as you (no clever back-end photo viewer here) and it's difficult for us to find galleries if we don't know where to look. There are a number of your shots I'd give POTD, for example, but I've never seen them in the search - despite, for example, going through 800 shots yesterday looking for POTDs.

As you've probably heard, later this year we'll be getting a completely new gallery and POTD system which'll make things a lot easier - and hopefully see all the gripes go away .

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And there was I thinking Bingo would be right up your street  , I bet you own a gold coloured jacket !! Eyes down for your first number...........

As for composition , I must say your chicken pie shot is a little bit crusty !! 

And all this coming from a man who we know now, keeps Hamsters in his trainers. Do me a favour !!

Remember I have not been the only one to question your choices,

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conners777:

And there was I thinking Bingo would be right up your street  , I bet you own a gold coloured jacket !! Eyes down for your first number...........

As for composition , I must say your chicken pie shot is a little bit crusty !! 

And all this coming from a man who we know now, keeps Hamsters in his trainers. Do me a favour !!

Remember I have not been the only one to question your choices,

That's *a* Hamster, and that's Mr Fluff to you, mate.

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Heat and Kitchen come to mind, I seem to have touched a nerve !.

 

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Today's POTD looks suspiciously like yesterday's ....

Steve Polky:

Today's POTD looks suspiciously like yesterday's ....

I don't think they go to work on the weekends but they never choose a new one on Saturday and Sunday.

Andrew

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No I think you're probably right, but what a load of lazy buggers! Wouldn't take more than a few minutes to change it over, and it's not as if they have to go anywhere -or don't they have internet access ain their homes?!

 

Steve Polky:

No I think you're probably right, but what a load of lazy buggers! Wouldn't take more than a few minutes to change it over, and it's not as if they have to go anywhere -or don't they have internet access ain their homes?!

 

I take it you are being facetious there?

If not, the staff of the mag are just as entitled to their weekends as the rest of us.  I, personally, am not that bothered about the RPOTD changing over the weekend, I usually spend the weekend with my friends and family, which I imagine is what the DC Mag staff are doing too and have other, more important, things to be thinking about than the RPOTD.

Just my tuppence worth.

Cheers
Ian

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Well that's what'w wrong with this country - people taking weekends off, leaving work at 4 or 5pm, taking long lunchbreaks etc etc.

They could choose 3 pics on Friday - and I'm sure there is the technology available to change them every 24 hours automatically. It's unfair because one person has a full three days exposure when there are lots of other worthy photographers who never get a look-in, and I would prefer to see as many choice photos as possible.

As the OP said, I think the POTD is quite unfair, and possibly (in case of libel!) fixed to a certain extent.

That's my threepence worth.

mmm...... today's mushrooms looked vaguely familiar......

 

 

What's going on with POTD? The same names are cropping up over and over. There seems to be a little clique of communal back-slappers and it's all getting a bit icky now  

Steve Polky:

What's going on with POTD? The same names are cropping up over and over. There seems to be a little clique of communal back-slappers and it's all getting a bit icky now  

Not at all. The only favourites we have are the images themselves. Of course, the more active contributors, especially those producing consistently high-quality photographs, are more likely to get chosen - simply because their images will show up more often within the gallery system.

With at least four members of the Digital Camera magazine team individually selecting POTDs, there's always the chance that the same photographer might be featured more than once in a week - we don't 'compare notes', because we want our choices to be unaffected and unbiased. This leads to a far more varied selection of photographic styles being chosen, as we all like different things.

Thanks,

JD

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JD, as you said below "Positive reasons for me are an interesting composition, skill behind the lens as opposed to being able to click a few Photoshop filters and doing something different." ... and yet most of the POTD pics this week are heavily - and obviously, so no excuses - Photoshopped.

You also admitted that it's hard to go through all the galleries, but I've seen far better photographs just by randomly clicking on galleries. At least two of today's four photographers are appearing for the second time in a week, and this is the second picture of that jetty, almost identical to the previous one! 

As for the gallery system, I fail to see how it works. The portfolio sections says  "The most popular photos will appear on the front page of the site, so get voting now!" yet there is no voting system, so how are they chosen?

To say the styles chosen are varied is a joke, when the same type of pictures and same photographers keep dropping up over and over. I don't know what the magazine hopes to achieve by this, but I know it alienates a lot of readers and leads to a very unbalanced online community.

What I think happens is that the work of friends and staff gets promoted heavily, and brown-nosers are looked upon favourably. If it wasn't for the POTY competition, this website would have far fewer visitors. The behaviour of the regulars on the forum is quite disgraceful at times, and staff are quick to block any criticism.

This will definitely be my last post on this site. You can keep your chummy little clique!