I got a few more photos accepted into PPG, which brings me up to a dozen.
For years I've heard all sorts of kvetching about being rejected, and I've been finding it interesting to see which ones make the cut, and which ones don't. I'm not sure how many I've submitted, especially since the declined photos get deleted after a short while, but I'm guessing that my acceptance ratio is somewhere between 25 and 35%, so I certainly don't feel discriminated against. I honestly expected a 5-10% acceptance ratio. PPG seems to be very intolerant of any sort of technical imperfection. It could be an amazing photo, but any noise, blur or missed focus seems to immediately disqualify it, no matter what sort of lighting it was taken in. A lot of my favorites of my photos tend to be a lot more subtle in their beauty, and very few of those make it. It's the bold, vibrant, eye catching photos that make it through. It's as if the people reviewing the photos don't have time to more than glance at them before rejecting them. If it passes the first glance, they look for technical imperfections. Then, they may look more deeply at the photo. As I learn what gets in, and what doesn't I may well start preselecting, discarding shots that I think are better on the assumption that they won't be accepted. I won't end up with a gallery that I feel truly represents my work, but it will be a good, eye catching gallery to point people at. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
