Bruce - It also involves, I would thing - model's releases and the fear of the bride not wanting her photo out there on line.....
I would never enter a portrait of anyone in a photo contest, myself, unless I had a full release from the subject and it wasn't a posed for shot someone asked me to take for them. I think they are being cautious.. ann Bruce Dayton wrote: >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. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
