On Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:49 PM, "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is what the PPG says: > > Your Photo Gallery > Understand the Submission Process > > 1. Your photo has been submitted to the PENTAX artist voting queue > 2. Artists will approve or deny a photo, based upon technical > proficiency and artistic concept, including compositions, color, > subject & form > 3. If your photo is generally liked and accepted by the community, > it will be publicly displayed in the PENTAX Photo Gallery > 4. If the image is in breach of the PENTAX Terms of Use, PENTAX > reserves the right to remove the image at any time > 5. On the artist dashboard, you can track an image through the > submission process > > WHAT IS LEFT UNSAID: > > Are the "artists" who "approve or deny a photo" the same people as > "the community" who can get your image into the gallery if they > "generally" like and accept it? > > Is #3 a separate review in every case, before or after the "community" > review, or is it just something that they reserve the right to > exercise in extraordinary circumstances? > > It sounds like there is no review except the voting by the > "community." If that is the case, however, how does one explain the > fact that there are still some of my images "under review," even > though the others submitted at the same time have been accepted or > rejected? Should all the ones that enter the review process at one > time finish at one time if the voting by the community is the only > step?
My interpretation of #3 was that the voting community had the say in what got approved or not, and that there is no longer a two-tier approval system. But, if that's the case, how do images get approved for the Premier Collection.? Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>But that raises a question: Is there still a two-tier judging system > >>in place? Do the peer-voted images that are accepted still have to > >>pass through acceptance by Pentax USA officials? I haven't seen this > >>explicitly stated anywhere, though I may have missed it. > > > > What made me wonder about this in the first place, by the way, is that > > I've been told of some images with borders/frames and/or watermarks > > being accepted into the gallery. I vote "no" on those myself but I > > suspect other voters haven't read the guidelines carefully. I just > > doubt that Pentax officials would overlook such a thing - that's why I > > wonder if it isn't all by peer voting now. That would be a shame; I > > alwqays thought the two-tier "popular vote than jury selection" was an > > excellent real-world system. -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web -- 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.
