On Jul 8, 2008, at 10:43 AM, frank theriault wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> They should start charging us (the Gallery participants) a dollar per >> photo for uploads! Maybe five dollars... >> >> No, I'm not serious (though I'd gladly pay it for the 1 or 2 >> photos per >> month that I submit) but it would sure cut down on people >> uploading 10 >> nearly-identical vacation snapshots. Or flowers. Or shots of their >> kids. >> >> I do find voting on submitted photos very educational and it >> definitely >> helps my "eye", but the ratio of "thumbs up" to "thumbs down" is >> taking >> a big turn for the worse. I used to average 1 in 5 yes votes. Now I >> think it's below 1 in 10. >> > > I'd be happy to submit anti-vacation shots, just to make your days > more interesting. Lots of blurry, tilted black and white things to > show. > > However, when I did that six months ago, I got an acceptance rate of > 0%. So I stopped. Then I whined to this list about it. > > Wait, I'm whining again, aren't I? > > ;-)
Well, the last time I uploaded 30 diverse and interesting pictures, taking a couple of hours to do so via the ghastly stupid interface, I also had none accepted. So I no longer waste my time. Peer review rating is a dumb idea. People pick what is similar to what they do. Or they pick what they aspire to do and cannot. Or they intentionally reject those things that compete with their own submissions. Any way at all, it's a stupid way to run a gallery IMO. None of these things define fine photography in concept. But I really don't care much anymore. If they're not going to improve the interface such that I don't have to spend hours to submit work, and then don't accept more than one in ten of my photos, I don't have the time to waste on it. (By contrast, I can submit 100 images to flickr.com, with full data, sort and organize them, arrange them into one or several sets, etc, and barely spend ten minutes at the effort. I can then submit them to a dozen different critique groups for consideration and feed back, etc etc. if I so desire, and obtain both personal and group commentary on each image. Easily, swiftly, and at my own discretion. And I'm not advertising someone else's products. That's why I like flickr.com.) Godfrey -- 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.
