Dan, Why do you bother? The interface is slooooow and cumbersome. The picture of the yellow stairs seems broken (bottom half missing). I don't like to be sent there to view pictures. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
