Dan, I didn't finish reading this post, no time at the moment, but when you use
thew word "they" you're primarily talking about those who are submitting work.
The Pentax team ("they") doesn't get involved 'til, having survived the "Yes" &
"No" voting parameters, the images are passed along for final disposition.
No doubt the voting composition is continually changing.
Jack
--- On Thu, 8/26/10, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com>
> Subject: The Pentax Photo Gallery
> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net>
> Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 11:04 AM
> I continue to be mystified by the
> official Pentax Photo Gallery and
> the process of reviewing submissions. I find that I
> am unable to
> predict what they will like and what they will promptly
> reject.
>
> The last three or four times I had submitted images, before
> this
> month, they took a long time to review them. Then,
> they would
> promptly reject most, and keep one or two "under review"
> for another 2
> weeks before rejecting those as well.
>
> Then, I submitted 10 images two weeks ago, and they very
> quickly
> rejected one and accepted two. One of the
> ones the accepted was a
> "pretty postcard" that had been previously submitted and
> rejected.
> The other was this one:
>
> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home#section=ARTIST&subSection=1309043&subSubSection=10204520&language=EN
>
> While I like that image, I certainly didn't think it was
> the strongest
> I had submitted in that group, and I was shocked that it
> was accepted,
> let alone so quickly. Just as a test, I then posted
> that image here
> as a PESO, and it drew only ONE comment. I have
> learned here that if
> a PESO gets few comments, that means most of the
> photographers on this
> list considered it unworthy or worse, mundane.
>
> I now have a modest little gallery of 17 images on the
> Pentax Photo Gallery:
>
> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
>
> I don't fool myself into thinking that is a measure of my
> skill as an
> artist, however, since a couple are cute little fawns that
> wandered
> into my yard and virtually forced me to take their
> portraits, and
> several others are landscapes of beautiful places that I
> have been
> lucky enough to visit on a nice day. There are only a
> few among the
> 17 that are original or artistic in any sense of those
> terms.
>
> In any event, one thing that bothers me is the way the size
> limitation
> is structured. The recommended image size is 600
> pixels high. There
> is no stated limit on width, however. That means the
> images in
> portrait orientation are much smaller -- in both the
> thumbnail and the
> "full" size -- than images in landscape orientation or even
> square
> images. I think that it makes it more difficult to
> get a portrait
> image in the gallery and worse, it makes it harder to
> appreciate those
> in the gallery that are in portrait orientation and
> therefore quite
> reduced in size. Has anyone else noticed this?
>
> In any event, I am pleased that they took 2 out of my last
> 10, and
> that seven more are still "under review." More than
> that, I have
> found the process of reviewing my images and trying to pick
> out the
> ones I think are the best candidates to be interesting and
> educational. It can be even more educational to see
> what the folks at
> the Pentax Gallery think of them. For example, they
> rejected most of
> my favorite diner images, including one shot taken inside
> of a diner
> that I think is one of my best images ever; but, they
> accepted
> another interior image of a diner, that I personally like
> but didn't
> think was nearly as good as the one they rejected. I
> spent almost an
> hour comparing the two the other day, and finally concluded
> it is just
> another case of "different strokes for different folks."
>
> Dan
>
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