Making no excuses for the PPG, but if you were Pentax wouldn't you want the
images displayed to be very, very good from a subject matter & photographic
standpoint? Poorly exposed, composed & blurry are not good examples of what
the equipment is capable of. And why would you ever want anything but your
best efforts to be displayed in a gallery?
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Sanfedele" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PPG acceptance
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.
But certainly technical stuff has to be spot on to ultimately make it -
just like stock photography.
I've got 11 in at this point... I think that represents about 25% of my
tries, too.
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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Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
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