It may be a colossal waste of time for you, and it might not matter much as far as what gets in the gallery, but I find it productive.
I am not certainly as skilled as most on this list or most who have images on the PPG. I review and vote on submissions for what I can learn. I try to ask myself, as to each image, "What is good about this photograph; what is the photographer trying to convey? Did he or she succeed? What are the weaknesses in this image? Why is this image better than mine (if that is the case)?" I also regularly look at the recently accepted images, to see what others have done, and try to determine what about those images makes them better than my rejected images. It seems to have worked for me, as I now have fewer rejects and more accepted images, and my Pentax Gallery is up to 46. That certainly doesn't mean that I am a better photographer, just that I can predict better what might get accepted. Also, when someone sees one of my images and asks to see more, I can give them the link to my Pentax Gallery, knowing that the images there probably appeal to a wide variety of tastes, and not just my idiosyncratic photographic vision. Dan On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:50 AM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:14 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: > >> "I'm surprised anyone cares. Voting is a colossal waste of time." -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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.
