True. I find that some of my rejections relate to the purpose of the image. I had two diner interiors that I really love rejected by Pentax. That made me take a hard look at them. They were taken for my diner blog, and both the original exposure and the modifications in PhotoShop were done with that in mind. They were structured to capture and display as much of the diner details as possible.
I realized that most viewers at the Pentax gallery are not interested in diners, except perhaps when they are hungry. I therefore re-processed the images to give more emphasis on the people in the shots, and to crop out some of the details that are interesting to a diner buff, but do not add to the composition of the image as an image. In the case of a shot inside a railway car style diner, I cropped out two tables of diners to bring the most interesting person in the frame to the forefront. That gave it broader interest and appeal, and it got into the Pentax Gallery after those revisions. I think that the challenge of getting image that I like in the Pentax Gallery serves a useful purpose, by making me rethink my decisions about an image I like and trying to find ways to improve it and give it broader appeal. Dan 2011/3/8 Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]>: > ah but your landscape oriented ones are not square.... nor are mine. seems > jsut to mess up verticals > ann > > Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> Although the thumbnails are properly proportioned in the voting >> process, once an image is placed in the gallery, it gets a square >> thumbnail. One of my favorite images, the Garden Walk from Villa San >> Michelle on Capri, make the gallery on the first submission. Now, >> the thumbnail now on the gallery shows only the foliage in the upper >> portion of the image, but none of the walkway or the walker: >> >> >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home#section=ARTIST&subSection=1309043&subSubSection=5249634&language=EN >> >> Dan >> >> 2011/3/8 Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]>: >> >>> >>> Replying to myself to edit this comment: >>> >>> Ann Sanfedele wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I'm glad that the thumbnails are seen in the correct proportion on that >>>> site, though. I don't understand >>>> at all why when a good 90% of photogs (just guessing here, but it seems >>>> so) are producing their original images >>>> in othe aspect ratios. >>>> >>> >>> .... that most of the photo hosting sites on line show only square >>> thumbnails... in fact, that's the default in smugmug and >>> I have to keep changing it for my stuff. >>> >>> >> >> > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
