Probably just my own complaining, but I do continue to see a large slant towards outdoor (scenic) and street photography. One real downside to 'artists' voting before the judges even get a crack at it, is those biases can come out. For example, after seeing about 400 dragonflies and butterflies I tend to be a little harsher in my judgements. I also tend to be a little critical of photos of art - statues, paintings, etc. As near as I can tell from timing of acceptance/rejection, it appears that there is a tally of votes on a photo - when it reaches a threshold of either accept or reject, the photo is taken out of the voting. The rejects are simply rejected without judge intervention and the accepted are then put on hold (not actual status) waiting for the judges to decide.
So technically excellent studio or wedding work will largely go unnoticed unless it involves a beautiful girl. Case in point - I had submitted the recent bridal portrait shot I show here, prior to showing on the list. It was rejected within hours - which would indicate the judges had not even seen it (the judges take much longer to get to a photo than that - usually days). I then showed it on list here and got a very strong positive response to it from people I would consider pretty critical. So I decided to resubmit it to see what would happen. This time it took a little longer to reject, but it did get rejected in a time frame that would lead me to believe the judges did not see it. I guess the real problem with a gallery like that is no one wants to see quality work of other humans unless then know them. Since they don't know them, it needs to be more like a NG shot of a beggar or a small child which all of us relate to. Anyway, just some thoughts. -- Bruce -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
