Forum: Photography


Subject: *POLL* Important * Please Read!!!!

Michelle A. opened this issue on May 01, 2003 ยท 12 posts


ficticious posted Fri, 02 May 2003 at 5:02 PM

understood guys. But my thought is that the people who want more than 3 a day, or unlimited just aren't putting any effort into the work. If you can post 10 final works of art a day, more power to ya, but I find it pretty suspectful. there are several users, well, more than several, who will punch in 3 news pics at 12:01am renderosity (pacific I believe) time. there was the idea that there should be a "Fine Art" gallery of sorts, where members uploaded their best work, of which they would be allowed 1 per week... why not always upload your best? I mean, I understand there are times when we phuck around and have fun (re: Mike's barbidoll sex fascination... we won't get into that any further), but otherwise, one should always put forth their best if they're gonna put forth anything at all. As agentsmith said, I don't believe poser users are big culprits. Rendering takes a long time, and Poser is catered to the midrange user in terms of price, which usually means most are running mid-range machines (somewhere around the 1ghz mark, usually lower I'd wager), which means LOOONG render times. If anything, I'd believe the photogrpahy and 2D users to be the big culprits. If we put the same amount of work into something that a poser user does, we're done, they then have to watch their computer render for 15 hours (man 3D's a bummer eh?). No fingers being pointed, it's just a thought. With a digi cam, one can go outside, shoot 20 pics of their garden, and upload them an hour later. Not the same with the 3D users who dominate this site. for this reason, I believe the members complaining about the quality of work being uploaded are looking in the wrong direction (the amount of images allowed per day), as it isn't really the 3D users who have the ability to do such a thing too often. That said, I don't think the 2D/photo users are clogging things up either. With a membership number hovering around something like 150,000 users, who gives a rat's ass if 400 images get uploade in one day? Imagine if every single person uploaded 1 PER WEEK, then Renderosity's server hardware would effin' choke. the other side of me says that either way, QUALITY is in the eye of the beholder. If you only want to see quality work, find the artists you find to always upload great stuff, put'em on your favourites, and check there stuff out when they upload. Who am I to say so and so can only upload 3 pieces of work a day? Hell, deviantart.com allows unlimited uploads. If you wanted to switch over, you could have yor entire gallery up in less than an hour. Still, i dunno. With photo, it's easy to get a few good pics on a roll, and put'em up all at once. I still believe though that more time can be put into the subtle details to make yourself happier. when it all comes down to the wire, though, in the end this is nothing more thanb a website, housing poorly compressed jpeg images, nothing more. This really isn't the real world, and should all be taken with a grain of salt. Members who bitch about the quality of work being posted should go elsewhere to view work if the work here sucks as much as they say. In montreal (and I know montreal is a big center for the art world, the same can't be said for most cities), there are over a hundred galleries on the island, and on most any given day, you can walk in, pay a few dollars, and risk seeing some really crappy art, or you might get surprised and say "Holy fuck that was good!" It's a risk. for that reason, my vote went with the 3rd choice, paraphrased as "I don't really give a damn".