Why I Am Quitting Photography
by Miserere
Because my photos suck, that’s why. What’s the point of going on if my photos suck? There is no point!
Oh, and how do I know that my photos suck? Because Acquine told me so. I don’t care what anyone says, Acquine is a precise, exact, computationally perfect machine that knows what is good and what is bad. And she’s decided I am bad. Oh the humanity…
Here are some of my photos with the score Acquine awarded them:
Freshly Rained – 28.4%
I’m Going to Eat You! – 56.3%
Caressed by the Sun III – 1.2% (that’s my wife you’re talking about!)
Diana Looks Down – 37.2%
The Sky Threatens – 41.2%
The photo that sucked the least was, ironically, the one I used as the banner for this blog. But it still sucked.
Scratching the Sun – 63.4%
And so, I must hang up my camera and take on some other hobby. Maybe crocheting. After all, how can I ever expect to make masterpieces that score 88.9, like the magnificent artwork displayed here to the right? I know I will never be that good.
Farewell, my friends. It was fun while it lasted.
All photos not masterpieces: ©Miserere.
Addendum:
I just received this e-mail, which I thought might be of interest to my readers. I would like to thank Mr Taylor for offering me a glimpse of hope for my future in Photography. I will be contacting him soon to inquire about buying one of his cameras.
To all who are concerned in achieving lots of points and high percentages on a Photographic Critique.
The attached image shows a neat little camera I invented a few years back to satisfy all the insecure photographers out there that they would get only the highest scores possible by just entering the required amounts into the calculator back and taking the picture, BINGO a perfect score.
If your not having Photographic Fun anymore, try something else.
You have my permission to reprint this email if you think it’s worthy.
Regards,
Lawrence Taylor
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Tags: Acquine, Aesthetics, Photography
Your photographs are amazing. I like them and they reveal interesting atmosphere and evoke emotions
Just thought I’d let you know that this:
http://lanpolis.pl/uploads/2009/04/edimax_ns-2502.jpg
got a 72.1. Go figure!
Beauty is only in eye of beholder. If you are truly impressed and like what you see, why should you care about what others think and say? Unless you are wanting to be top 1% of elite professional photographer. I enjoy photography way too much even to try to be THAT!!
You might be encoraged to know that this image scored higher then evething you posted here except for scratching the sun & I’m going to eat you. Maybe you should take up doodling instead?
http://tsixtos.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/silly.jpg
It seems to really hate black & white – maybe one of the programmers writes off everything monochrome as insta-art? Still, 1.2% is just insulting…
It seems to really hate black & white – maybe one of the programmers writes off everything monochrome as insta-art? Still, 1.2% is just insulting…
It seems to really hate black & white – maybe one of the programmers writes off everything monochrome as insta-art? Still, 1.2% is just insulting…
It seems to really hate black & white – maybe one of the programmers writes off everything monochrome as insta-art? Still, 1.2% is just insulting…
It seems to really hate black & white – maybe one of the programmers writes off everything monochrome as insta-art? Still, 1.2% is just insulting…
It seems to really hate black & white – maybe one of the programmers writes off everything monochrome as insta-art? Still, 1.2% is just insulting…
I am not going to be critical of your photos on any basis and anyone who uses a point system to determine the value of any art work shouldn’t be allowed to even look at a photograph. This reminds me of “The Paint by Numbers” pictures where you are given everything to achieve a final picture by following the directions, and God forbid if you go outside the lines.
wow Mis, I didn’t realize your photos “sucked” that much…
j/k of course. Heck sometimes it’s not even numbers that are confusing, on flickr some of the stuff that gets the highest fav’s or makes the mecca page of explore is downright confusing…
but I do want that calculator camera though… bet it’s a Nikon…
The funny thing is if you put the same photo in Acquine but at differing sizes you get a wide range of results so aparently the size of a photo makes a difference in determining if its is perfect or not.
I know! I fed her all images with 700 pixels being the longest width.
Lawrence Taylor is a friend of mine. He is an artist whose
medium of choice is photography. For the past 12 years i
have used a camera to make images, prior to that i used
paint, pencil, crayon, ink etc. for 20 years. I have always
hated the idea of ART MAKING RULES and i don’t regard the photographic medium as being any different than using any other medium in that regard. I totally agree with my friend and will not have any use for his nifty scoring points camera!
What the hell is this? A machine to tell you how bad you are! No way, you are a great photographer! This is stupid. Talent is something that can’t be measured. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it? Please lets regroup and kill that machine. No one has the right to tell you how bad your pictures are, only how extraordinary they are. Keep shooting and keep shooting. We all need inspiration. Thanks for sharing.
I fed it a scanned image and received a respectable score. Maybe it helped that it couldn’t see ‘Pentax’ in the metadata.
Thats it, it’s a Canikon conspiracy against Pentax… O the Shame of it all
Well, your blog banner image got the highest score. So I guess you should give up photography but keep blogging about it!
Ha! :-p
Hi,
Wow, I feel sorry for you. All my images got 90% or above. !~D Lessons anyone?
Chris
Sign me up, Chris! What are your prices?
Wow, that dog with the cat is certainly a wonderful photo. I cried, I laughed, I cried some more. Just wonderful. Maybe you could try doing some pictures more like that… bzzzzt error error 10010 10101 011001 0010110…
I just developed the definitive a crochet scoring algorithm and will be happy to evaluate your afgans and antimacassars ;~)
wow!! what a great spoof !!!!
Thanks for sharing, Mis. Tried a few from my flickr stream and had one at 96% and lots of dogs, often shockingly low. I’m wondering how it works–does it depend on how similar it is to other images that other people have rated highly?
Thanks for trying out Acquine and provide feedback! As pointed out in our About page, Acquine is an experimental science project. We put it out online for people to test it out and to give us feedback. We have learned a lot from photographers since it was put in public. As you see from the usage statistics page, any score higher than 35 is considered by Acquine as very good. And I admit that Acquine some times cannot pick out those very creative photographers. So if you would like to be one, you may want to use Acquine only as a reference.
Cheers,
James
http://wang.ist.psu.edu
So…. what does it mean if Acquine likes my photos more than I do?
It means you’re screwed :-p