Bruce, In need of self validation? The comfort you will feel if the majority are accepted upon re-submission will be easily worth the risk. They certainly don't deserve the fate the eleven re-submitter images have experienced. How are you able to determine if an image is accepted/declined by peer voting vs the judges? I gather you have many more images to re-submit.(?)
Jack --- Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I did the unpardonable - I took down all 53 of my photos. I > had two in the collection. > > I have been slowly resubmitting my shots with the new voting in > place. So far, the two that were in collection have been accepted, > but not in collection. 9 that were in the gallery have been > rejected. Most of those rejections have come on the peer voting - > maybe 2 or 3 were rejected by the judges. > > In a weird sort of way, I feel better having almost all my work > rejected. Before, I'm thinking that I had 53 in there and now > everything is rejected. Now, I can just think that almost everything > of mine is rejected, so at least it is consistent. > > I still haven't quite figured out the voting yet - it appears that if > there is a huge wow factor, it might make it, but anything else, is > very iffy. > > In some respects, this seems to be following a larger trend. One in > which art is transcending photography. Try looking at all the photos > on photo.net galleries based on popularity. Almost all the shots are > soooo dramatic that they just don't hardly look like our planet - > even people shots have heavy doctoring of lighting. Extreme skies > and wild, saturated colors are the norm these days - even though > where I live, I see that kind of thing maybe once every few years. I > seem to be rambling...must be one of those days. > > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Friday, February 29, 2008, 10:50:35 AM, you wrote: > > JD> 'prox 4000 images divided by 1900 photogs = 2 images ea. > JD> ' " " " " " 680 " = 6 " " (seems > more > JD> logical). > JD> If there are some 4000 voters, the yes/no vote should be > considered on > JD> the basis of the ratio and not the count, as was initially > stated. > JD> May help explain the high reject level. > > JD> Jack > JD> --- AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> A couple of observations: > >> > >> Bunnell writes: 1900 photographers. > >> Photographers list in gallery counts 680. Which means there are > more > >> than 1200 *unpublished* photographers casting votes. Interesting. > >> > >> Bunnell writes: max submitted photos from one photographer: 133 > >> No photographer in the gallery have that many published. Some guy > has > >> at least 70 photos in the voting queue, and I'm dead certain it's > not > >> me... > >> > >> (yeah, I've got one of those days again... too much time and too > >> little to do...) > >> > >> Jostein > >> > >> 2008/2/28, Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > Just noticed that Ned Bunnell has posted some statistics (pdf > >> files) about the gallery on his Blog. > >> > > >> > http://nedbunnell.blogspot.com/2008/02/pentax-photo-gallery.html > >> > > >> > One file shows a break down of contributors by Country. Not > >> surprisingly, the USA is well out in front but Oz contributors are > >> doing well and bringing up third place. > >> > > >> > The other file lists the most popular lenses used. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Cheers > >> > > >> > Brian > >> > > >> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> > Brian Walters > >> > Western Sydney, Australia > >> > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > >> > > >> > > >> > JD> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > Get a free email account with anti spam protection. > >> > http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/2 > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > 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. > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > >> http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > >> > > > > JD> > JD> > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > JD> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > JD> http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > > -- > 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. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- 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.
