Sasha Sobol wrote: >What do you think about it? >Things I like so far: >the collection of images is nice. > >Things I hate: >the flash interface - just ugly
Yeah. I think they should have gone with PHP and some form of SQL in an XHTML format. It would have been more search engine friendly, too - as it is I don't think pages in the Pentax Photo Gallery show up in searches at all :( >black box - the photo is accepted or rejected silently That's been complained about and debated a lot. Often when voting I want to shout out to the submitter, "Damn, that's a great shot!" or "You're SO close! Just come back when the light's better... or crop off the left... or..." But it's really easy to imagine how such a system could be abused. >the quality of submissions is quite low (voting is boring) You shoulda been voting a year ago: Things were *much* worse then. I think they're recently instituted a weekly limit of how many images you can submit. People used to upload boatloads of crap. >I have submitted 10 photos so far and one got in: >http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home?#section=ARTIST&subSection=6178931&subSubSection=6317652&language=EN >Which I think the best portrait I did so far, but a couple of other >photos I submitted are probably better. > >What is the usual acceptance rate? It depends. While voting, I usually find myself saying "yes" to about 1 out of each 10. The acceptance rate for photos I submit is higher, but that's just because I've become much more selective about what I upload. :) >Does it worth the effort of submitting photos? I find there's very little effort in submitting, so I say Yes. I find it very helpful to my growth as a photographer to shoot photos with the goal of meeting *someone else's* idea of a good shot, rather than my own, occasionally. >How would you compare ppg to, say 1x (one exposure) in terms of photos quality? Never made the comparison, but I recall hearing of someone who had all his PPG rejects accepted at another juried online gallery... and all his rejects from that gallery accepted in the PPG! I think submitting the same shots to both galleries and seeing what gets accepted at each would be a useful exercise. -- 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.
