I agree with John about posting to the Pentax Photo Gallery (note that it is not a "Pentax USER Gallery" aka PUG!)
I might be overly cynical, - but with the huge number of shots in the gallery, the likelyhood of some random visitor seeing your shot is rather small (unless your photos are the "featured" ones, - like those of Paul S.). Only those who went via direct link to the page with your shots will make it there. But then, - it is not much different from your own website gallery. Hence, the main motivation to get your shots accepted is to get the warm fuzzy feeling from that fact itself. To rephrase an old joke: What is common between posting your pictures to Pentax Photo Gallery and peeing dark pants? Nobody notices it but gives a warm feeling. (I don't mean to offend the feelings of anybody who has their photos in the gallery, I'm just being facetious.) I would also agree with what John said about the first 2 photos. As for the 3rd photo, on the initial viewing, I missed that sign on the photo. Indeed, it makes the situation rather ironical. Cheers, Igor 272yb at comcast.net 272yb at comcast.net wrote: > John, OUCH, but thank you, I guess part of it is my fault because I > photographed the 11x14 prints outside with a K20D rather than scanning the > negs.I was in a hurry..As far as the fireman in the burning car photo, what > was more important to me was the intense flames and the no parking fire zone > sign. That is what made the photo and that is why it was published in a few > newspapers. Without the sign in the picture, it is just another car fire > photo. The person who owned the car went into the movie house and left the > car where it should not have been parked..Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <johnf at panix.com> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml at pdml.net> Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 7:54:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Pentax Users Gallery On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:35:55PM +0000, 272yb at comcast.net wrote: > I just had three more not accepted. I give up. > Here they are, what do you think ? Thanks Joe I think it's pretty much pointless to submit to the gallery now - your shots get rejected by people who obviously have a very different opinion of what makes a good image. That said: > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9296930 On my (admittedly uncalibrated) monitor, the wall to the right of the banjo is a distracting burned-out area, as is part of the page of the music. > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9296946 Here I'd be happier to see the entire chair in the reflection, rather than having the top (?bottom?) cut off. > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9296949 The main figure - the firefighter - is almost lost against the dark part of the background; a different angle would be better, silhouetting the figure against the blaze. -- 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.
