Thanks, Frank. I submitted more than 12 before I got some in -- a lot more than 12. First, I submitted my favorite images: all rejected. Then, I submitted the ones that had received positive feedback here or on another forum: all rejected. Then, I submitted my "prettiest" images: all rejected. Then, I submitted the ones I thought were unusual or "artistic": all rejected. Finally, I went back over a large number of photos, and picked out several that I thought could be improved by cropping, cloning out distractions, or using different contrast or brightness settings. In two cases, I took wide angle shots and used the "transform" function of PS to remove or reduce the distortion. (Those two are still "Under Review," while some submitted several days later were already rejected.)
The three that were finally accepted were from the best of this last process. Since they rejected the "House of the Sun" image I entered in the PDML photo book, a found another shot from that some day that was a bit wider and less abstract; I cropped it a bit, added a little more contrast, and it worked. One of the first images I submitted to Pentax was the image of the iron spiral staircase in the Barnegat Lighthouse. Almost everyone here and elsewhere commented that the bright light in the image was distracting, and I agreed, so I cropped it out. The cropped image was rejected. Then, I went back and cloned out the light, a difficult and time consuming process. That was also rejected, Finally, as an afterthought, I submitted the original image, with no cropping and no adjustments in PhotoShop. That became the first of my images accepted by Pentax. I was quite surprised. The shot of the Jellyfish tank in the Maui Ocean Center is still my favorite image, which is why I submitted it for our photo book. It was rejected by Pentax, so I tried a heavily cropped version, which was also rejected. I am determined to go back to the original files, and start all over, to see if I can somehow make them see what I see in that image. Probably a waste of time, but I think I have learned a lot by trying to figure out what they like and how I can tweak an image to make it better. Thanks again for looking and commenting. Dan On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:23 PM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Daniel J. Matyola > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, I finally got three images accepted into the PENTAX Photo Gallery. >> >> Also, I am trying to start a photo blog of sorts, although I am not >> really certain what I want to do with it. I started with the photo >> pages I had on my old Geocities web page, which I had to move, as >> Yahoo is dismantling Geocities. I'm still struggling with what to do >> and how to do it. Today, I added my image of the garden walk in San >> Michelle, on the Isle of Capri, that was selected by Pentax. >> >> In any event, I would appreciate any comments and suggestions, related >> both to this image and to the style and substance of the blog I am >> trying to set up >> >> http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?webtag=djm1963 >> >> Thanks in advance. > > That's a wonderful photo, certainly worthy of inclusion on the Pentax > Gallery. Congrats! > > cheers, > frank (12 photos submitted, 12 rejected) > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
