On 9/26/07, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank, here is what I think: > > 1. You're an excellent photographer. You really are. > 2. You were somewhat late jumping on the Pentax photo gallery train. I > for one realize that with the grand amount of submitted photographs my > chances to have my work accepted are very small. I was lucky enough to > submit some of my photos when there were only few photographs and > photographers in the gallery. And some of my work got accepted. > > Having said that, I think you should really not dwell much in this > specific project. I realize it would be cool to be on display on Pentax > Gallery, but if you're not there it *really* does not make you any less > a photographer than you actually are. > > Cheer up!
No worries, and thanks for the vote of confidence (from everybody, not just you, Boris). In fact, I'm fine with this, and I'm not depressed about being "rejected". I've spoken with another list-member who got into the Gallery early, got a photo or two accepted, then got a bunch rejected later on. His theory is that he "got in early", when photos were needed and far fewer "accepted artists" were voting on images. I'm sure that there are several things happening here: As Paul said, there aren't many street photos in the gallery. A few, yes, but not many. (although I did submit several still-lifes, a sports photo and a portrait or three) Also, in the FAQ of the gallery, Pentax suggests that voters consider things such as focus and exposure when assessing photos. Yikes! What chance to I have if one is told to consider such things! ;-) I'm not too worried about this, and I likely wouldn't have made comment at all, except that there were comments made on this list in the past about the whole "voting/acceptance procedure", so I thought that I'd throw in my two cents. As for whether I'm a good photographer or not, well let's just say that I have fun at it, I'm happy with the way some shots turn out, get some nice feedback once in a while (from this list and elsewhere), all of which is important to me. Thanks again, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
