Pens and Pencils

Challenge #2 in the Go out and shoot it now. series. Hosted by JohannSnyman.

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Show us some interesting pens and/or pencils. Interesting pens is good, but better is boring pens doing interesting things.

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Challenge comments

Total comments: 6

you are not a serious photographer to say that mr johann/snyman.

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I have been away for a few days, so my apologies for the late response. I will DQ one of the entries.

Anyway, these "competitions" are for fun only, it is not as if you are going to be featured in NatGeo for winning this. :o) So I cannot really understand why anybody would want to cheat. You win absolutely nothing, you only lose the little self respect you had to begin with. Sad really.

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Of course the answer will be we all send him a message with a .5 vote.

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Amazing isn't it. This type of photo challenge is open to extreme cheating. I noticed the same thing. I also see 2 other photos that are similar same pencils and colors. Pretty handy way to help out your score but then again, what do you do. You submit a great shot and some will slam you with a .5 score to hurt your chances of winning. Seen it MANY times before and that is sad. No reason for a .5 vote is even required which in itself is sad. I've seen some horrible photos get 2, 3 or 5star votes and I know they were only 1 or 2 stars at best.
Anyway, this whole system is flawed yet dpreview probably can't come up with another method that is fair. Of course we can always get our family members to sign up and vote all 5s too!!
Good luck in your challenges. I have noticed a steady decline of entries in the challenges and I am sure it is a result of cheating and spiteful voting.

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I agree. I was about to submit the same complain.

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This Challenge has the following rule: Maximum number of entries per user: 1. If you look at photo #10 called "twister" and #19 "mikado" you'll see that these are the same pencils captured at different angles. That means two photos has been uploaded by the same person using 2 different accounts. Of course this way, this genious person can also rate his own photos by 5 stars. I think one of those photos should be DQ.

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