Very interesting. Thank you for such a detailed and useful response to my dumb question.
Dan On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Bong Manayon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
