r/SubredditDrama • u/Oxus007 Recreationally Offended • Dec 28 '15

"trees growing out of head, terrible color edit and contrast, bokeh looks nervous (bad)." drama in /r/itookapicture as some users are not impressed with a picture of OP's gf in the city.

/r/itookapicture/comments/3y6r8a/itap_of_my_girlfriend_in_the_city/cyb1rcc
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u/Oxus007 Dec 28 '15

Pretty mediocre tbh, the bokeh is well done though

Yea definitely not as good as this-http://imgur.com/BW2Ekmq

What a cherrypicked example But I can't find any shitty pictures in your history so I guess you win this round

Pretty mean, but I laughed at this exchange.

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u/RicoSavageLAER Dec 29 '15

I think that the second guy was totally right btw. "Pretty mediocre" really isn't constructive. And then I saw that one picture that he'd taken and couldn't help but laugh out loud

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u/Oxus007 Dec 28 '15

Yea that was pretty funny too. OP seemed to take everything in stride throughout the whole thread.

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u/riemann1413 Dec 28 '15

is r/ITAP a pretty negative place or is it just the SRD effect coloring how i see that place?

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u/Oxus007 Dec 28 '15

I've had generally positive experiences when posting my own stuff there. Keep in mind, SRD highlights the petty slapfights.

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u/riemann1413 Dec 28 '15

yeah, that's what i mean by the SRD effect, this place has given me slightly harsher views of some subs than i get when i just browse otherwise. however, the other time i checked out ITAP i found some pettiness straight away, so i was just curious if a regular could set me straight

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u/jfa1985 Dec 28 '15

Personally I've never experienced anything too bad but I have seen more negativity here on reddit's photography related subs then I have on 4chan's /p/.

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u/keithbelfastisdead Dec 28 '15

You coloured it? Well there's your first problem.

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u/midnightvulpine Dec 29 '15

From what I've seen, any sub focused on presenting something to the people in it will inevitably be derided by someone. It's like people can't give constructive criticism without coming off like a bit of a dick.

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u/utterpedant Dec 29 '15

bokeh
noun
the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens. Wikipedia page.

Just in case I'm not the only philistine who thought they were talking about her headband.

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u/dlbob3 Dec 29 '15

I thought it was the scarf.

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u/jfa1985 Dec 28 '15

There is just something about the feedback on photos that you get here on Reddit that that seems like the person giving it only recently completed photography 101.

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u/IAMA_DRUNK_BEAR Dec 28 '15

There should be a term for people with only cursory knowledge about a subject that go online and pretend to be experts in that field, especially by relying on very technocratic language and jargon that they clearly aren't terribly familiar with.

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u/Munkenesque Dec 28 '15

Like a techno-dilettante?

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u/Spawnzer Dec 29 '15

Is this bait? I feel like this is bait

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u/cocktails5 Dec 29 '15

Well, the real killer here is that the subject of the photo is...completely out of focus. Plus the composition is a complete mess.

I mean, if you're just taking photos for personal snapshots, who cares, but if you actually care about photography as an art then things like that are kind of hard to ignore.

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u/_sekhmet_ Dec 29 '15

They need to crop the picture. I know it's not as bad as the girl's scarf being more in focus than her face, but the is space they left over her head is distracting. It takes away from the subject, and cropping it would take care of the tree growin out of her head and it would create more of a contrast between the background and the girl.

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