Challenge of challenges: what do I get? ;)

[Le Kilt]

Impressive analysis, wow!
How about developing a better browser for the iPad...

Wanted to add this but got timed out.

Why are iPad users not getting full support from dpreview.com..
No outsiders really know.... That's a fact.

I've complained since a year ago that the website is not optimized for iPad users.
Why?

Let's analyze the facts

Fact no.1:
Amazon.com owns dpreview.com

Fact no.2:
Amazon has a tablet which is competing with iPad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle

What happens next?

When would it be strategic for dpreview.com to provide full support to iPad users in terms of optimization of website?
1. When Amazon no longer produce Kindle or other iPad like tablets
2. When dpreview.com is no longer tied to Amazon.com

Doesn't take a genius...

Yep

 

[RaptorUK]

It's not about the browser . . . it's about support for Flash . . or lack thereof. Apple will not support Flash on the iPad or iPhone . . .

I believe the likes of Youtube/BBC use HTML5 for iPad/iPhone

Impressive analysis, wow!
How about developing a better browser for the iPad...

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[Le Kilt]

True, I was forgetting about the closed world of Apple!
Android will soon take over...
Then Apple will get scared and allow Flash...

It's not about the browser . . . it's about support for Flash . . or lack thereof. Apple will not support Flash on the iPad or iPhone . . .

I believe the likes of Youtube/BBC use HTML5 for iPad/iPhone

Impressive analysis, wow!
How about developing a better browser for the iPad...

 

[Simon Joinson]

Why are iPad users not getting full support from dpreview.com..
No outsiders really know.... That's a fact.

I've complained since a year ago that the website is not optimized for iPad users.
Why?

Let's analyze the facts

Fact no.1:
Amazon.com owns dpreview.com

Fact no.2:
Amazon has a tablet which is competing with iPad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle

What happens next?

When would it be strategic for dpreview.com to provide full support to iPad users in terms of optimization of website?
1. When Amazon no longer produce Kindle or other iPad like tablets
2. When dpreview.com is no longer tied to Amazon.com

Doesn't take a genius...

If you voted 5 stars for those hundred shots, the website woulda still line everything up from one o a hundred, as if you had perfectly predicted the results.
I would say you're further from the results than you think or seem to be saying.

I have yet to see a loser averaging less than 1.0 stars. I've only seen 1 winner ever achieving above 4.0. All of my votes are between 1.5 and 3.5 stars. 4 stars is reserved for my projected winner. To vote 5 stars and then expecting to win the voting prize is unstrategic.

That said I didn't manage to vote on all of them, but only on 28 entries.
Who cares, the prize was nothing to shout about.
Voting is still a pain on the iPad.
Dpreview is still not iPad friendly.
Maybe they will do something before next Christmas.

conspiracy stories aside, we'll be optimising the entire site for mobile (phone and tablet) users this year. It's a big job.
Simon
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[Denjw]

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[Mike Ronesia]

conspiracy stories aside, we'll be optimising the entire site for mobile (phone and tablet) users this year. It's a big job.
Simon
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Simon Joinson, Editor
dpreview.com

LOL, I have him blocked for just that kind of stuff, but your reply did make me laugh, thanks! And thanks for the "block user" feature.
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[Lee Jay]

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1044&message=40098427

"What do you want to bet that the eventual winner will have received a 2-star or less rating from me?"

Yup... 1.5 stars. I gave 3 to number 2 and 2.5 to number 3, so I came close to missing my prediction!

My top four got 49th, 5th, 22nd and 73rd.

By bottom four got 19th, 43rd, 62nd and 96th.

Looking through, there was virtually no correlation between my votes and the eventual turn-out.

Personal preference is all this is, just like I said before.

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[Lee Jay]

I've complained since a year ago that the website is not optimized for iPad users.
Why?

Maybe because iPad users don't deserve special treatment?

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[Le Kilt]

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1044&message=40098427

"What do you want to bet that the eventual winner will have received a 2-star or less rating from me?"

Yup... 1.5 stars. I gave 3 to number 2 and 2.5 to number 3, so I came close to missing my prediction!

My top four got 49th, 5th, 22nd and 73rd.

By bottom four got 19th, 43rd, 62nd and 96th.

Looking through, there was virtually no correlation between my votes and the eventual turn-out.

Personal preference is all this is, just like I said before.

Wow, you could be very useful in discerning dodgy photos... ;-)

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[Le Kilt]

I've complained since a year ago that the website is not optimized for iPad users.
Why?

Maybe because iPad users don't deserve special treatment?

LOL, they don't deserve to be on the Internet !!!
;-)

 

[onlooker]

2.5 to number 3

Well, I would have given 6 to #3, but DPR does not provide that option.

 

[Denjw]

So what was your rationale to give the winner a vote of 1.5? To my eyes it was a clear winner!
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[Lee Jay]

So what was your rationale to give the winner a vote of 1.5? To my eyes it was a clear winner!

It's a picture of an animal being impaled and killed. I would have given it 0.5 for that reason but I gave it 1.5 because it was an otherwise nice picture.

If the attacking animal had been a bear and the killed animal a human child, would you have still thought so much of it?

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[mirrorrorrim]

It's called the food chain, the natural process for animal species to survive. It's part of nature and the reason all animals are able to exist. Not a reason to give the image a lower vote.

So what was your rationale to give the winner a vote of 1.5? To my eyes it was a clear winner!

It's a picture of an animal being impaled and killed. I would have given it 0.5 for that reason but I gave it 1.5 because it was an otherwise nice picture.

If the attacking animal had been a bear and the killed animal a human child, would you have still thought so much of it?

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[Lee Jay]

It's called the food chain, the natural process for animal species to survive. It's part of nature and the reason all animals are able to exist.

Perfectly well aware of that (I eat plenty of meat, and have caught and cleaned many fish), but that doesn't mean that I find death and suffering pretty.

Not a reason to give the image a lower vote.

It is for me, and it's my vote.

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[Lee Jay]

2.5 to number 3

Well, I would have given 6 to #3, but DPR does not provide that option.

It might be a color photo, but it's still colorless and uninteresting to me. Also, as an isolated image, I couldn't figure out any story behind it.

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[happy snapper uk]

It might be a color photo, but it's still colorless and uninteresting to me. Also, as an isolated image, I couldn't figure out any story behind it.

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Lee Jay
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I cant get my head around this story thing.People say it a lot but I just dont get it..If I want a story I watch a movie
The bird has killed the fish and its taking a rest before dinner ha ha

 

[Lee Jay]

It might be a color photo, but it's still colorless and uninteresting to me. Also, as an isolated image, I couldn't figure out any story behind it.

I cant get my head around this story thing.People say it a lot but I just dont get it..

To me, the purpose of still photography is to tell a story. If they don't do that, they fail. That's why I find very little interest in individual un-captioned photographs like are the subject of just about every single challenge.

The bird has killed the fish and its taking a rest before dinner ha ha

I was talking about the biker-on-the-bridge one.

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[Lee Jay]

So what was your rationale to give the winner a vote of 1.5? To my eyes it was a clear winner!

By the way, this isn't that great of a bird photo. If you want to see some great ones, try these two DPR members:

http://pbase.com/zylen
http://pbase.com/liquidstone

Specifically, I like these:

http://www.pbase.com/zylen/image/132806999
http://www.pbase.com/zylen/image/94682337
http://www.pbase.com/zylen/image/94998553

http://www.pbase.com/liquidstone/image/52817418
http://www.pbase.com/liquidstone/image/76615795

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[Ben_Egbert]

So what was your rationale to give the winner a vote of 1.5? To my eyes it was a clear winner!

By the way, this isn't that great of a bird photo. If you want to see some great ones, try these two DPR members:

http://pbase.com/zylen
http://pbase.com/liquidstone

Specifically, I like these:

http://www.pbase.com/zylen/image/132806999
http://www.pbase.com/zylen/image/94682337
http://www.pbase.com/zylen/image/94998553

http://www.pbase.com/liquidstone/image/52817418
http://www.pbase.com/liquidstone/image/76615795

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Lee Jay
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You are right about better bird images and left out Hawkman and Peacefrog.

About stories, not sure I need a story, I just need something I like to look at. That leaves out people for this old hermit and just about anything made by man that is less than 100 years old. I also don't much care for B&W.

I am down these days to landscapes and birds and I do like astrophotgraphy. Pretty narrow I admit. But the process of experience is to refine not to expand.

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Once you can, everything else does.

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