2009/2/17 Subash <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:31:33 +0100 > AlunFoto <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are probably lots who have submitted a few and given up. >> Persistence pays off, take my word for it. > > i did submit a few last year (after the peer voting came in) and after > those got rejected, did not bother to submit again. perhaps i'll submit > a few again... :)
Keep at it! :) I got somewhere betweeen 40 and 50 images in there before the voting started. Now I'm _nearly_ up to 100, after some seriously persistant submitting. In periods I don't get anything through at all, and at other times I have a fantastic success rate. I believe acceptance through the peer review stage is not at all as random as one may feel. I mean, it's not more random than any other set of group behaviours. I think the most crucial factor is actually the _other_ pictures submitted at the same time as your own. If you're lucky, your pictures shine by comparison to the others surrounding it and get loads of thumbs-ups. If you're unlucky, they fall through in a batch of better pics. I have seen examples at dpReview of people reporting that resubmitting an image will do the trick. I think Bong has had some success that way too. He has a very fine collection in there, btw. In my opininon, the judgement excerted by Pentax themselves is far more random than the collective mind of the peers. I think this was the case also before the peer review started. Their taste and aesthethic requirements seem to be drifting with time; almost sloshing back and forth. I bet anyone who has browsed the "recently accepted" category over some time will see this. But hey, it's art, isn't it? <g> Jostein -- 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.
