I had a hard time coming up with triangles to shoot for the most recent DPChallenge contest. My ideas for staged shots seemed trite and too easy, though a quick scan of the entries shows that nobody used the idea that I thought would get overdone: 4-sided dice. I guess I should have tried that idea after all.

The shot I ended up editing but then deciding not to submit was:

Taken with a Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L IS USM lens I borrowed from Bogdan (thanks, Bogdan!). It's a nice lens, but an absolute monster to carry and shoot with.

From my view, the shot came out okay but not brilliant technically (I'm not entirely happy with the way the near bokeh looks, and my framing of the rear triangles inside the near ones wasn't quite perfect), and when I ran a quick comparison against the images in my collection that I like (a step now permanently on my checklist since my first disaster) I decided that it just wasn't interesting enough and has no emotional appeal. If I were scoring it myself, it would pull a 6, which means that it would probably end up with a 4.5 or so if I entered it, somewhere around the 30%-40% mark. Not good enough. My cutoff for a self-score used to be a 7. Since that's what I would have rated my night shot, which tanked around 5.1, I think I'm going to up the cutoff to 8. It may be a while before I enter again, though I'm making it a point to at least have one shot ready for each open challenge that I'll post even if I decide not to submit, and I keep my eye on the member challenges to see if I find something interesting that would match. I'm still waiting on something I would want to submit for one of those challenges to actually become a member, though.