>Most of those rejections have come on the peer voting - > maybe 2 or 3 were rejected by the judges.
Are you basing this on the time in the que? Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Pentax Photo Gallery Statistics > Well, I did the unpardonable - I took down all 53 of my photos. I > had two in the collection. > > I have been slowly resubmitting my shots with the new voting in > place. So far, the two that were in collection have been accepted, > but not in collection. 9 that were in the gallery have been > rejected. Most of those rejections have come on the peer voting - > maybe 2 or 3 were rejected by the judges. > > In a weird sort of way, I feel better having almost all my work > rejected. Before, I'm thinking that I had 53 in there and now > everything is rejected. Now, I can just think that almost everything > of mine is rejected, so at least it is consistent. > > I still haven't quite figured out the voting yet - it appears that if > there is a huge wow factor, it might make it, but anything else, is > very iffy. > > In some respects, this seems to be following a larger trend. One in > which art is transcending photography. Try looking at all the photos > on photo.net galleries based on popularity. Almost all the shots are > soooo dramatic that they just don't hardly look like our planet - > even people shots have heavy doctoring of lighting. Extreme skies > and wild, saturated colors are the norm these days - even though > where I live, I see that kind of thing maybe once every few years. I > seem to be rambling...must be one of those days. > > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Friday, February 29, 2008, 10:50:35 AM, you wrote: > > JD> 'prox 4000 images divided by 1900 photogs = 2 images ea. > JD> ' " " " " " 680 " = 6 " " (seems more > JD> logical). > JD> If there are some 4000 voters, the yes/no vote should be considered on > JD> the basis of the ratio and not the count, as was initially stated. > JD> May help explain the high reject level. > > JD> Jack > JD> --- AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> A couple of observations: >>> >>> Bunnell writes: 1900 photographers. >>> Photographers list in gallery counts 680. Which means there are more >>> than 1200 *unpublished* photographers casting votes. Interesting. >>> >>> Bunnell writes: max submitted photos from one photographer: 133 >>> No photographer in the gallery have that many published. Some guy has >>> at least 70 photos in the voting queue, and I'm dead certain it's not >>> me... >>> >>> (yeah, I've got one of those days again... too much time and too >>> little to do...) >>> >>> Jostein >>> >>> 2008/2/28, Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> > Just noticed that Ned Bunnell has posted some statistics (pdf >>> files) about the gallery on his Blog. >>> > >>> > http://nedbunnell.blogspot.com/2008/02/pentax-photo-gallery.html >>> > >>> > One file shows a break down of contributors by Country. Not >>> surprisingly, the USA is well out in front but Oz contributors are >>> doing well and bringing up third place. >>> > >>> > The other file lists the most popular lenses used. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Cheers >>> > >>> > Brian the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
