The way I understand the inner workings of PPG is that upon submitting photos it undergoes the peer voting and if it passes that it goes through the judge(s) of Pentax Gallery. The peer voting may take up to two weeks or so; it was said somewhere that a unanimous positive vote of a sample group (it seems impractical to have all 1000+ members to vote) of maybe 20(?) can get your photo in within that two week period.
Photos which do not get the vote (less than half of 20?) gets declined while the ones that did now goes under the scrutiny of the webmasters of PPG and sits around 'under review' for another week or so. Applying this may show that your photo accepted in the 2nd group must have passed peer voting with flying colors while the ones lingering from the 1st group may have passed but are now waiting for the decision of the PPG gods. It also seems now that PPG gets updated by batches; I imagine the work involved adding photos and those updates seem to take place around every 3 weeks. Those waiting 'under review' here does not seem to guarantee acceptance having as much chance as those voted on in the peer selection. One thing I noticed though, is that details can matter in the selection of the PPG judges. I had a couple of 'PORTRAITS' declined but when I resubmitted them under ' GLAMOR' were accepted. I have also figured that you can only have so many photos entitled 'Sunset'. So often I edit the details of photos declined after 3 weeks (those reject by PPG itself) by changing the title, adding or deleting a category. I had a couple of photos accepted that way; however it works only with the latter process. Something declined in peer voting instantly stays declined when you change the details which may not matter in that process. All this has all be based on hunch and stuff I heard from others... Bong On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have any insights into how the photo selection process for > the PENTAX Gallery works? I am just curious. > > A while back, I submitted a group of images. Two weeks later, no > action had been taken on the first group, and I submitted a second > group. > > After another week or two, one from the second group was accepted, and > most of the others were "declined." Four images from the first group > remained "under review," however. Does it mean anything that they > were kept in that category while others submitted at the same time or > two weeks later have been processed? > > While I am mostly curious about the procedure, I guess I am also > trying to convince myself that the remaining images have purposely > been singled out and therefore have a decent change of making the > gallery, even though that seems unlikely, based on my limited > knowledge of the system and limited past experience. > > Dan > > -- > 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. > -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- 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.
