Why do I bother? I guess because it's a bit of a challenge. The interface is a PITA, but the gallery has some really wonderful images, that I enjoy seeing, although I wish I could see larger versions.
The picture of the yellow stairs seems broken because I cropped it that way. It was a very tight staircase inside a lighthouse, and the part missing on the bottom would be my shoes. I usually don't send people there to view my images. In fact, when I made a PESO yesterday out of the "Dining on Broadway" image, I liked to photo.net, rather than to the Pentax Gallery. Thanks for looking and taking the time to comment. Dan On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
