On Sun, 6 May 2001, Lasse Karlsson wrote:
> I may be wrong, but I assumed that most submitters would like to get
> comments. (That is if we clearly keep it to friendly general
> impressions and suggestions on what can be improved upon. (All of a
> sudden it has evolved into a discussion on "critique" etc, which I
> never understood it to be the case from the beginning. And I am not
> going to volunteer for a "PUG critiquer"...:) ) I also would think
> there'd be more volunteers if we keep comments on a decidedly non
> professional level.)
That's a good way of putting it. The PUG comments aren't meant to be
heavy-duty critiques, although I'm not ruling those out if you feel like
taking the time to do it. All I'm really expecting is that commentators
take the time to look at the photos and say something about them. That's
it. You could say which parts of it you like or don't like, how you think
it could be improved, how (or if) it resonates with you, etc. You don't
have to know anything about high art to have an opinion about a
photo. <g>
> I was thinking that you'd simply do the "randomizing" and sending out
> the "call messages" to the volunteers, and it would be up to us to
> check whether the participant wants a comment or not. Maybe someone
> will get only three to comment on and somebody else will get seven,
> but would there statistically be that great a risk that there will be
> this great a spread of the number of assigned photos? I don't know.
That would be complicated by the fact that I'm sure many people will
forget to put that info in their submission and will e-mail me
separately. It would also be difficult to assign more than one person to
talk about a particular photo, too, I think. I don't mind taking the time
to collect the names of interested people and then to distribute them
randomly and evenly among the commentators.
> I don't know, I'm getting tired of all this thinking. Why can't we
> just go back to like we started, and just fix the directions a little,
> like clearly stating that this gallery is simply for fun and the joy
> of it, and not a deadly serious competition for The International
> Professional & Artistic Photography Awards....?
I hope that's essentially what we're doing, except that we won't alienate
those people who want to post to the PUG but don't want their photos
discussed on the PDML.
chris
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