 - Natasha Pliss  Contact Natasha Pliss Natasha Pliss's Gallery |
What's happening w/the March EP? I do not understand what's going on with the first round of March contest judging. It looks like all, but 1, of my March entries were crap, even those highly praised by the class instructor. I took time to check images from March 10th to March 16th in the Elements of Design category: 90 entries and just 14 (!!!) EP's. Less than 16% deserve EP??? Do the Judges have much higher standards now? That's fine but we have to know about these changes. Or they just overwhelmed by the amount of images (which is understandable) and simply skip many of them. I saw a lot of great photos without EP emblem. This contest is very important for me because I can and do see a lot of progress in my photography thanks to it. But if the judging becomes unfair for whatever reason it's time to look for some other company. Natasha Pliss
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Tiia Vissak |
I got my last EP for an image submitted on 5th of March, although after that I submitted every day and last months, I did not get EPs only for a couple of images... I do not understand this, either.
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Kathryn Wesserling |
Kerry Drager posted in Cheri's thread http://www.betterphoto.com/forms/qnaDetail.php?threadID=35929 that there is a major change BP is making, and that there will be a second round during which EPs will be awarded. Nobody is quite sure what that means but I probably shouldn't have deleted some of my earlier entries! lolllll He asked that everyone be patient for a little while longer.
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Nicholas Semo |
I'm hoping that they have raised their standards. It seemed as though everything I entered was getting an EP. After looking back at them I'd sit there and think "really, that photo got an EP" I actually wondered why I even entered it. I guess what I'm saying is, that for me, not getting an EP makes me try to improve that much more. Nick
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- Natasha Pliss Contact Natasha Pliss Natasha Pliss's Gallery |
Thank you Tiia, Kathy and Nicholas for your response. Now it's clear BP is making a major change. And if they going to raise their standards regarding EP's I certainly don't mind but only if they are fair and consistent. Anyway, they should've informed us about these changes sooner. It would've been honest, fair and respectful.
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- Joannie Bertucci Contact Joannie Bertucci Joannie Bertucci's Gallery |
It's all such a scramble! I have received no EP's for my work this month and I have been reading the other thread of March and a lot of discussion has been going on about everything. Kerry Drager made a comment on that thread that BP was working on a system of EP's with on explanations. He said something about going back to the first images that were not picked. It sounds like a lot of extra work...but sure enough I checked my gallery just now and I had an EP on my March 7th image. I just don't get it! :-)
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lesliemorrisphotography.com - Leslie J. Morris Contact Leslie J. Morris Leslie J. Morris's Gallery |
Change can be good, but hard! I do hope they go back once they figure out what the new procedure as I had a large stretch skipped with, IMHO, some of by better work in it! But I still am having fun getting out and trying to get better. Hang in there everyone!
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
El chinche is developing again.
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Tiia Vissak |
Today I got an EP for 6th and 23rd... no EPs in between yet.
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ALLEN O. HOWARD |
I POSTED THIS TO A DIFFERENT FORUM AS WELL. I responded in a questionnaire. I added how I felt about the relevance of BP and the other sites that were closing in on it or simply passing it by. It has been a shame as this is where I learned what the camera in my hand was. It came to a point were everything I did was an editors pick but I very rarely received a finalist much less a winner. All of a sudden it seems as though they have gotten way behind here or they are scrutinizing differently. I am not saying better or to a higher standard, just different. I worked for a while judging on another sight (Which I shall not name) and while judging it became very easy for me to pick out the regular winners even though there was no name involved. Subsequently the challenge for me was to dig deeper and make sure I was giving everyone a fair viewing. Originally when BP started giving me all of these "editors picks" I thought my chances were improving. I mean I might get 28 editors picks in a month but that never changed finalists or winning for me. Now I have virtually no EP'S and that is okay by me If BP finds there way back. Relevance matters. Especially when we have Facebook and Google social platform. I truly love BetterPhoto and I hope that they can figure this out. We are in an age of compression where everything is moving faster and faster. BetterPhoto was the king.
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