by Nilanjan Das on Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:29 am
I am sorry that I can not stop myself from asking the gentleman or lady who rated this image as 7. Would love to know what went in the mind while rating this image or even seeing this image ? Yes, it looks simple on the surface but this image has a depth beyond imagination, this image speaks of a mind which does not get carried away by the usual flights in full frames or looks for the usual patterns or usual disrupts in patterns. This image is all about a perspective of an environment beyond imagination, about a moment in silence, about space. I have told you so many times Ganesh that am not really sure how people see an image and communicate their thoughts in terms of ratings. Most images getting 9 or so in my opinion are rated due to the awe factor on the surface ( with few exceptions ). Rating in CNP and how an image should be rated needs to be further discussed and explained, remember myself you and Praveen discussed this in Ahmedabad station. I think we are not trying to rate an image as how beautiful it is, the entire idea of rating is how well the creative mind has executed the thought and converted that into an image. A rating of 7 here clearly indicates that the person who rated this image could not perhaps visually interpret the depth of the image. I see more short coming in the mind which has rated this image and not the image. In many cases I have logged in and increased the rating when I felt that the image has not been rated on the merit of the attempt, ( as I had to do for Vikram's grass image ) but I think it's high time that we really explain this issue as there are many young members in CNP who get demoralized and also begin to have doubts in their own minds about their attempts seeing a low rating. We do not need a defined range of images in CNP which can be easily rated 8 or 9 or more, we want the freshness, we want to see images like how they have not been shown before, in such a process if an image fails, so be it, but plz we encourage that mind which has dared to travel the unknown path. We should be rating for that attempt more than anything else. If one is unsure of how the rating process works, better the image is not rated as that can really bring in a sense of failure in the minds of the young artists we have in the forum. Rating low in Ganesh's images are ok as he knows what he is showing, but am really worried now that we are only considering the art of seeing while shooting and not the art of seeing while actually seeing an image. These are my very honest opinion and I really hope am not too wrong in my interpretation. If we have found a known way to create images to get a rating of 8 or 9, I think we should consider that as a failure for CNP and re-try to organize ourselves so that such known attempts of certainty can be branded as failures. My 2 cents, may be am a little harsh here, but I think it's time to be harsh and not politically correct. My apologies in advance.
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