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AR - Scraps and Quality

Journal Entry: Thu Oct 11, 2007, 1:26 PM








The dA Scavenger Hunt begins tomorrow. Read the journal and don't be late :)


AR News - Animals, Plants and Nature

In this journal I plan to discuss the merits of using our Scraps Gallery and raising our personal photographic standards. I have also juggled the running order of the journal so that Contests and News is higher. It is in this area I tend to edit after I post the journal so for updates on the journal please look there.

The Scraps Category

When images are reported as miscategorized the reports go straight to the Gallery directors. At this point we have several options, to accept the report and move the image into correct category or move it into scraps. A third alternative is to reject the report because, in the opinion of the Gallery Directors, the image is correctly located. Because of the high standard of the reports received I rarely have to use this third option. :)

Most of the images that are clearly in the wrong category I move into the correct category. With some images there is a choice of categories that could be suitable and when this happens, rather than force a choice on the deviant, I move the image into their scraps gallery. This then gives them the choice of where they will relocate the image.

I would like to state at this point that the Scraps gallery is not, imo, for rubbish or crap images and, in general, the images I move to Scraps are not rubbish or crap, they are just wrongly submitted.

Rubbish and crap images that are out of focus, poorly exposed, heavily cropped, undersized or just snapshots have no place on deviantART and shouldn't be uploaded in the first place, they should be put in the Trash bin.

Load your guns now if you feel the need, but IN MY OPINION we, as deviants, should only be uploading the best images we can produce and shouldn't be satisfied with anything less.

The Scraps gallery should be used to home images that are 'almost' images or images that, at some point, lived in our main gallery but we have managed to improve the quality and wish to retain the old version for reference. Have you looked at your gallery and I do mean REALLY looked at it.? Are there images in there that are no longer the best of the images you have produced? Why not scrap them? Has your photographic techniques improved to the point where your early work really doesn't do you justice any more? why not scrap them? I have well over 100 images in the Scraps Gallery and that number will increase as I improve and get better images.

Scrapping images does not mean they are bad images it just means you have Better images.

Contests and News

$Moonbeam13's Artist Relations Newsletter - The news article for all that is good in AR

Spread
the Film - Emoticon Contest from $lolly

My Journal CSS Contest - I am still looking for entries until the end of October

Don't forget about the Monocolour Madness Contest which is open until October 13th, 2007! That deadline is quickly drawing near. All the guidelines can be found in this article

Halloween is just around the corner so October is going to be full of dA contests :) to be updated

Miffed or concerned about the MC Filter? We're working on it and $lolly goes into it in more detail here

Project Streamline has begun and the first gallery to be streamlined is Artisan Crafts, read about the changes here



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If you are running any Contests relating to Animals, Plants and Nature please note me ^KevLewis and I will gladly add them to this section

Raising the Bar for Daily Deviations

As you will know the Gallery Directors can give a Daily Deviation (a DD) to images that they think are worthy of the award. Yesterday I was about to give a DD to an image that had been suggested when I realised that it honestly didn't deserve the award so I cancelled it. So, in future I will only be giving out the DD award to images that are really outstanding rather than issue Daily Deviations to the best images from the submissions received as I feel it just undermines the value of the Daily Deviation award.

so, I am looking for very high quality images as DD suggestions, please see the Submission guidelines


Daily Deviations - From the Animals, Plants and Nature Galleries


  • The July Daily Deviations

  • The August Daily Deviations

  • The September Daily Deviations


    • Featured Daily Deviations





    Galleries and Daily Deviation Submissions

    Listed below are the Current Galleries listed within Animals, Plants and Nature that I will accept DD suggestions for. I am running short of DD suggestions for high quality images so I am looking to you, the community, to provide me with suggestions via note to ^KevLewis. Please Do Not send the same deviations to multiple Gallery Directors, it will not increase the chance of the image getting a DD. In fact duplicated suggestions will be deleted.







    regards Kev
    Gallery Director for
    Animals, Plants and Nature








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    `hellfirediva Oct 5, 2007, 9:46:15 AM
    I agree on the rubbish :D

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    :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

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    *Zeitwolf Oct 5, 2007, 10:00:30 AM
    the trash part is so true - sometimes I feel dA is a junkyard...

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    ~Feather-Dancer Oct 5, 2007, 10:03:07 AM
    I'll certainly go through mine when the upload glut is done, not till then though as some of the uploads are gonna go in there after they've had a bit of spot light :) Only down side to scraps really is barely anybody bothers to look but yourself since so many don't even realise it's there which is a shame.

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    `KevLewis Oct 5, 2007, 10:06:12 AM
    I think that the fact that few people look in Scraps is a benefit :) It allows you to retain a personal scrapbook which doesn't degrade the quality of your main gallery.

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    ~xldstudios Oct 5, 2007, 10:35:59 AM
    Great points all way through! :thumbsup:

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    `Helewidis Oct 5, 2007, 10:44:08 AM
    38 scraps and counting... and I also have deleted many, many more... I'm glad this subject is being brought up! :thumbsup:

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    `Helewidis Oct 5, 2007, 10:53:04 AM
    :bow:

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    The Gallery descriptions for the Animals, Plants and Nature Categories


    * Birds - Photographs of live birds either in their natural habitat or captivity (ie. zoo or wildlife sanctuary) should be placed here. Photographs of extinct birds on display in museums also belong here.

    * Domesticated Animals - Photographs of live animals that live with people as pets or livestock in houses or on farms. Images of captive wild animals should be placed in the Wild Animals category.

    * Flowers & Plants - Studio or outdoor photographs featuring plants, trees, flowers, and so on. Pictures of mushrooms will go here as well, even though they are not plants.

    * Geology - Photographs taken to illustrate naturally formed geological features. Landscape/waterscape images should not be placed here as they have their own categories.

    * Invertebrates - Photographs of live Insects, Arachnids, Gastropods, Molluscs, Butterflies and Dragonflies.

    * Landscapes - Photographs of an expanse of natural scenery that can be seen in a single view. This category differs from a waterscape in that landscapes should feature solid ground for the most part.

    * Aquatic Life - Photographs of all aspects of both fresh and salt water live subjects belong in this category. Images may include coral, shells, sea creatures or fish taken from above AND below water level. Waterscapes do not belong in this category as they have their own gallery.

    * Miscellaneous - Photographs of Animals, Plants and Nature that fail to fit in the other categories.

    * Reptiles & Amphibians - Photographs of animals that includes crocodiles, alligators, tuatara, lizards, snakes, amphibians, turtles, frogs & toads.

    * Sky - Photographs of nature involving the sky or astronomical features as the most significant element. Images of fireworks are specifically excluded from this category.

    * Waterscapes - Photographs of an expanse of natural scenery that can be seen in a single view. This category differs from a landscape in that waterscapes should feature water - flowing or standing - for the most part.

    * Weather - Photographs focusing on capturing the weather at the particular point in time.

    * Wild Animals - Photographs of live animals that do not typically live with people. This category would also include wild animals in captivity (i.e. in a zoo). Birds, Insects and Arachnids, Reptiles & Amphibians do not belong in this category as they have their own galleries.

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