AlunFoto wrote: >If it is so that only the submitting photographers vote, it's not at >all surprising that it takes a fortnight to get the pics through the >procedure. > >We know that 40 votes are required for each photo before it is >presented to the jury (if I'm the only one to have received this info, >I'll forward the mail from the Gallery people). IOW, the process will >take as long as it takes 40 photographers to log on and cast votes, >plus the time it takes the Pentax jury to provide the final verdict. > >As one who vote frequently, I know there are literally hundreds of >photos passing through the system every week. From looking at the EXIF >metadata in the shots, it also seems likely that each photographer >submit 5-10 pictures per round of verdicts from Pentax. Which means >that with eg. 300 shots per week, you have a pool of 30-60 voting >photographers. > >Assume 60 photographers, and each would have to vote for 200 photos a >week to grind all the submissions through the mill.
Interesting information. I hadn't known much of this before. I must be an oddball: I only submit one photo at a time and generally wait until it's either accepted or rejected before sending another. I don't produce enough work that I think worthy of consideration for me to batch-submit. When I was about 5 years old one of my favorite stories was "The Little Red Hen". She spends most of the story trying to get the other barnyard animals to help her make bread, but no one wants to help with harvesting the wheat, grinding it into flour, making the dough, etc.... but in the end they all want to help eat the loaf. The Pentax Gallery seems to be a little like that: A lot of people want to get their photos shown there, but very few pitch in to the work that makes the Gallery possible. >There are currently 500 published photographers in the gallery, btw. Given how many they receive, that's a very low number. No wonder it's so tough to get an image accepted. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
