On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:19 -0700, "Sasha Sobol" <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you think about it?
I think it's a great, if flawed, initiative. > Things I like so far: > the collection of images is nice. Agreed, although it's skewed towards the "look at me!", "look at me!" - type images. Some photographic themes, such as street photography, don't get much of a look in. > Things I hate: > the flash interface - just ugly I don't mind the look but it's just too slow to load. Casual viewers probably don't wait around long enough to view images. > black box - the photo is accepted or rejected silently > the quality of submissions is quite low (voting is boring) Yes - too many submitters don't do their own culling. They can't decide which one of a dozen images of the same subject is best so they submit the lot. > 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. I think we've all had that experience :-)> > What is the usual acceptance rate? Probably around 10 - 15%, provided you critically examine your images and only submit your best work. > Does it worth the effort of submitting photos? I think so. > How would you compare ppg to, say 1x (one exposure) in terms of photos > quality? Hadn't heard of 1x before. I'll check it out. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- 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.
