Pixelfuckers

personally, i liked zeka better, but some of these are still good.

@josh & rr: i’m in agreement with things that both of you said.

josh, i feel like you were a bit harsh at times in your critique, but i also think you have very valid points and all the right in the world to police the submissions on this site for quality since you started and maintain it. also, a sub $100 camera may be able to achieve these shots, but you’d have to get really lucky in order to land a nice, quality image without too much noise at higher resolutions. getting an image taken with a p&s to look good at 1920×1200 or bigger isn’t always easy.

rerun, as you stated, you weren’t trying to wow anyone or create a legacy with this pack, just give the community some more possible wallpaper choices. i agree with and support that spirit. with that being said however, i personally think you could have included more higher quality photos (just search for pictures taken with any nice dslr), taken out the near duplicate pictures, and made sure the photos looked crisp enough at full size. most of the images look great in thumbnail size, and then get ugly close up. lower-quality images are still usable as wallpapers through a number of different techniques. i tell you what i do if you’d like. in the future, start with probably double the number of photos that you intend to submit. go through processing on all of them, then pick the best ones for the pack.

I’m not quite sure how I feel about these collections where the “author” goes through stock exchange, picks out some pictures of grass, flowers, and landscapes, adjusts the curves in Photoshop and then resubmits them while truncating the original photographer’s name.

I downloaded this pack and went through the photos and half of them are just completely out of focus shots of a tree or the sun. About half of the ones that are in focus are poorly executed and at least one has been horribly mutilated by some Photoshop filter.

Usually when these photo packs are created the, let’s say, curator, alters the colors or something, but these seem to be straight from a point and shoot camera unaltered. To be fair they may be altered, but they don’t look like it.

I say to you, get your camera, go out and take your own pictures, modify them, submit them when you feel they’re ready. I can almost guarantee that any of these pictures in this collection can be had by a sub $100 camera these days.

As for this submission, if it weren’t for love expressed by the rest of the comments, I’d boot it off the site. I see not one bit of passion or soul here, but rather the easiest route possible to submit something that will get decent rankings.