Pentax Photo Gallery Statistics

Sat Mar 1 09:03:17 EST 2008

Yes, it does. I've made the same assumptions, but was curious as to the
possibility of there being other indicators. 
Thanks!

Jack
--- Bruce Dayton <bkdayton at daytonphoto.com> wrote:

> Hello Jack,
> 
> The method of determination of peer rejection vs. judges is based on
> speed of rejection.  For the past couple of months, the judges have
> been taking 1-3 weeks to reject.  Peer rejections are mostly within a
> few days.  So if something has sat there for a long time (more than a
> week) and eventually gets rejected, that is most likely a judge.  It
> is also easier to tell if there are several submissions.  So an
> example would be that 10 are submitted.  7 of the are rejected within
> two days.  The remaining 3 sit there for 3 weeks and then are all
> rejected at once.  This would indicate that the 7 were peer
> rejections and the 3 were judge rejections.  Makes sense, no?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Bruce
> 
> 
> Friday, February 29, 2008, 3:25:00 PM, you wrote:
> 
> JD> Bruce,
> JD> In need of self validation? The comfort you will feel if the
> majority
> JD> are accepted upon re-submission will be easily worth the risk.
> They
> JD> certainly don't deserve the fate the eleven re-submitter images
> have
> JD> experienced.
> JD> How are you able to determine if an image is accepted/declined by
> peer
> JD> voting vs the judges?
> JD> I gather you have many more images to re-submit.(?)
> 
> JD> Jack
> JD> --- Bruce Dayton <bkdayton at daytonphoto.com> wrote:
> 
> >> Well, I did the unpardonable - I took down all 53 of my photos.  I
> >> had two in the collection.
> >> 
> >> I have been slowly resubmitting my shots with the new voting in
> >> place.  So far, the two that were in collection have been
> accepted,
> >> but not in collection.  9 that were in the gallery have been
> >> rejected.  Most of those rejections have come on the peer voting -
> >> maybe 2 or 3 were rejected by the judges.
> >> 
> >> In a weird sort of way, I feel better having almost all my work
> >> rejected.  Before, I'm thinking that I had 53 in there and now
> >> everything is rejected.  Now, I can just think that almost
> everything
> >> of mine is rejected, so at least it is consistent.
> >> 
> >> I still haven't quite figured out the voting yet - it appears that
> if
> >> there is a huge wow factor, it might make it, but anything else,
> is
> >> very iffy.
> >> 
> >> In some respects, this seems to be following a larger trend.  One
> in
> >> which art is transcending photography.  Try looking at all the
> photos
> >> on photo.net galleries based on popularity.  Almost all the shots
> are
> >> soooo dramatic that they just don't hardly look like our planet -
> >> even people shots have heavy doctoring of lighting.  Extreme skies
> >> and wild, saturated colors are the norm these days - even though
> >> where I live, I see that kind of thing maybe once every few years.
>  I
> >> seem to be rambling...must be one of those days.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Best regards,
> >> Bruce
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Friday, February 29, 2008, 10:50:35 AM, you wrote:
> >> 
> >> JD> 'prox 4000 images divided by 1900 photogs = 2 images ea.
> >> JD> '  "    "     "      "     "  680    "    = 6   "     " (seems
> >> more
> >> JD> logical).
> >> JD> If there are some 4000 voters, the yes/no vote should be
> >> considered on
> >> JD> the basis of the ratio and not the count, as was initially
> >> stated.
> >> JD> May help explain the high reject level.
> >> 
> >> JD> Jack 
> >> JD> --- AlunFoto <alunfoto at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >> A couple of observations:
> >> >> 
> >> >> Bunnell writes: 1900 photographers.
> >> >> Photographers list in gallery counts 680. Which means there are
> >> more
> >> >> than 1200 *unpublished* photographers casting votes.
> Interesting.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Bunnell writes: max submitted photos from one photographer: 133
> >> >> No photographer in the gallery have that many published. Some
> guy
> >> has
> >> >> at least 70 photos in the voting queue, and I'm dead certain
> it's
> >> not
> >> >> me...
> >> >> 
> >> >> (yeah, I've got one of those days again... too much time and
> too
> >> >> little to do...)
> >> >> 
> >> >> Jostein
> >> >> 
> >> >> 2008/2/28, Brian Walters <supera at bluebottle.com>:
> >> >> > Just noticed that Ned Bunnell has posted some statistics (pdf
> >> >> files) about the gallery on his Blog.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> http://nedbunnell.blogspot.com/2008/02/pentax-photo-gallery.html
> >> >> >
> >> >> > One file shows a break down of contributors by Country.  Not
> >> >> surprisingly, the USA is well out in front but Oz contributors
> are
> >> >> doing well and bringing up third place.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > The other file lists the most popular lenses used.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Cheers
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Brian
> >> >> >
> >> >> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> >> > Brian Walters
> >> >> > Western Sydney, Australia
> >> >> > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> JD>
> >>
> JD>
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