Ann Sanfedele wrote:
sees like such a crap shoot to me - following Dan's advice, I
resubmitted a couple that had been rejected before and one got in the
second time quickly and the other, not.
I think Paul's comments that highly saturated landscapes are the
easiest to get accepted .. too bad.
...I've got 11 in at this point... I think that represents about 25%
of my tries, too.
ann
Ansswering myself...
Ooops - make that 13.. very odd. I just resubmitted one like 2 days ago
and now it is in. I didn't change anything about it...
except added a bit about where I was when I took the photo. strange.
ann
Larry Colen wrote:
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.
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