Bruce Dayton wrote: >The real thing to remember is this is a show off gallery for Pentax >equipment. Much more than it is a show off gallery for the >photographer. So they are looking for some cliched images - many of >which she has produced. They want some really punchy colors and >classic locations so that the Canon-Nikon crowd can see that you can >take a good picture with Pentax.
I noticed that a lot of her photos seemed to have very punched-up-looking saturation. Quite overdone, IMHO. >I think that really subtle images are not going to be very well >accepted. They need to be very strong and almost jump out at you. Yep. This really makes sense for a web gallery, really. No sense showing off stuff that looks its best in the form of a print. >I also think that they compare you to yourself to some degree. So >someone really good might have some of theirs rejected even though >they could be better than the best of another individual. But that is >to be expected. If they didn't do that, then some people may not get >any in their gallery at all. > >I think they are doing a good job overall with a very major endeavor. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
