![]() Attorney Saima Mohsin of the Eastern District of Michigan, Special Agent in Charge Lamont Pugh III of the U.S. McQuaid of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Art is not about votes or likes.A Michigan woman was indicted on allegations that she intentionally misappropriated government funds that were designed to aid medical providers in the treatment of patients suffering from COVID-19 and used them for her own personal expenses.Īcting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. Unfortunately photographer didn’t find them helpful, he found those comments offensive (but they were not)!Īnd remember: the fact that your image doesn’t get a lot of votes, doesn’t mean it’s not beautiful. Majority of comments were something like ‘great photo’, ‘incredible image’, ‘wow’ but there were a few photographers which mentioned technical flaws in that very image (it was some grungy landscape shot if I recall correctly). I saw people whose photos had score of 99.3 and more on 500px and which were poor from technical point of view (oversaturated or bad composition). How many times have you seen mediocre (or even very poor photos) images in Explore on Flickr or on top places on 500px? Way too often. I just mean that you shouldn’t treat Pixoto as some kind of oracle which is always right and tells you the truth about your images.įinally, it isn’t the problem only with Pixoto. In this article I don’t try to say that uploading images to Pixoto (or any other site) is a bad idea or that if you win awards your photos are bad. I use it especially in the periods when I’m not sure about my photography skills □ And despite the fact it’s not a real contest, it’s somehow motivating and make you feel better. It’s not a serious photography competition and you can’t think about it as such. So if Pixoto is that bad why do I use it occasionally? Because it’s quite fun □ and if you treat it this way you can really enjoy using it (I love voting the image! □ ). ![]() In fact I uploaded a few images I didn’t like just to check if I’m right… and they also won awards. Almost every shot I upload gets some kind of award and believe me some are simply not worth it – as any photographer I have better and worse photos. landscapes or some more specific like… cat portraits □ ). Maybe it’s not that easy to win #1 of the day or month award (my best result so far is #2 of the day) but you can quite easily get “10% best of the day” in a certain category (eg. And the problem is virtually anyone can win some kind of award on Pixoto. And one day you might realize your photos aren’t that great really. They make you believe you’re great photographer and don’t need to learn or improve anymore. BTW did you know that we need approximately 10 years on average to reach proficiency level in a given skill? What’s worse you need talent and not all of us have it.īut when you receive an award on Pixoto you might start to think that your photos are great, almost perfect (they were awarded after all so they MUST be great). Photography, as any skill, is about making mistakes, learning on them, improving next time, making more mistakes and so on. ![]() And although for some this can be certainly true because some photographers are simply very talented, for the majority it’s not. The worst thing about Pixoto in my opinion is that it can give beginners or enthusiast photographers like me false impression that they are already great. Especially as some other people didn’t agree with him, while I do. One, quite well-known photographer, pointed out the bad things about Pixoto and it provoked me to share my point of view about it. Now, back to discussion I mentioned at the beginning. Same thing happens at the end of each week (best photos of the week are awarded), month and year. At the end of each day the best photos (#1, #2, 5%, 10% best, 20% best etc.) are given an ‘award’ and your Facebook/Twitter friends are notified about that. As your photo wins duels it gets points but when it looses a duel – your score decreases. After you upload your photo it starts to appear in ‘duels’ – it’s displayed side-by-side with one more randomly chosen photo from the same category and other users have to choose which one they prefer. If you don’t know Pixoto, it’s yet another images sharing site but it works differently than Flickr or 500px for instance. Some time ago fellow photographer pointed me to an interesting discussion about Pixoto website. Typical Pixoto notification after receiving an award. Why is Pixoto potentially dangerous for your photography?
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