Because I had forgotten some of the images I had submitted previously, I now have 3 images in the PPG that are near duplicates of other images. One set is an image of a whale diving into the pacific; one version is a tighter crop of the other, and they display next to each other in my PPG gallery, looking a bit odd. The second set is a resting fawn curled up under a tree; the two images differ only in that I moved about 45 degrees around the tree between shots. The third set has two images of the Colosseum, taken with within minutes of each other with only a slightly different angle. Now, I have to decide which to eliminate, a hard thing to do after waiting so long to get them accepted! <G>
That raises a question about voting in the PPG. Lately I have run across a number of cases when the same person submitted three to five virtually identical images. Generally, I either like them all or none of them. If I like the image, and vote on the first one I see, I don't know that very similar shots are about to pop up. I don't want to vote for 5 of the same thing, but sometimes the second or third shot is a bit better than the first displayed. There is no way to "take back" a vote once caste. (One could do that under the old voting system, if they showed up on the same page.) What are others doing in these situations? Should we vote for two or three, and let the photographer delete any duplicates, or vote for only one on principle? Also, I noticed that a larger percentage of my submissions have been accepted in the last two weeks than was previously the case. Is the voting getting more generous? I think that I have actually been giving fewer "thumbs up" lately, compared with last spring. Am I just being too negative? Dan 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.
