On Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:45 AM, "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 happened to one of my photos but they were the same crop so I just eliminated the older (smaller) version. If you need to eliminate some duplicates or near duplicates, it would be best to keep the more recent versions. In the 'new' PPG, images are displayed in such a way as to take up the available real estate in the viewer's browser. On larger monitors this means that the older images will be enlarged to a size greater than the actual image dimensions, which degrades the quality. > > 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? If I 'thumbs up' an image and later come across almost identical versions, I just give them the 'thumbs down' whether they're 'better' than the first one or not. The photographer should make the decision on the best one to submit - it shouldn't be up to the voting 'community' to do it for him/her. > > 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? I don't think so. There's an awful lot of mediocre stuff being submitted - much of it mine.... Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... -- 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.
