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ukcatfan
03-24-2008, 09:27 PM
I am doing the super happy dance tonight!!!!!!! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

I finally got a picture through the Pentax Photo Gallery judges!!! I had submitted what I though was my best work. Of about 25 or so, one was finally accepted!!! Here is my artist page. http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home#section=ARTIST&subSection=1900737&subSubSection=0&language=EN :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Kevin

Edit: Just figured out that I actually have a direct link http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kevinhobstetter
JR6ooo4
03-24-2008, 09:40 PM
Congrats! That is a cool shot!

Mikeeee

at first I thought, wow that ghost has a sporty wardrobe.
ukcatfan
03-24-2008, 09:48 PM
Congrats! That is a cool shot!

Mikeeee

at first I thought, wow that ghost has a sporty wardrobe.

That was just my portrait of myself for the artist page. The approved shot is http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home#section=ARTIST&subSection=1900737&subSubSection=2169236&language=EN


The one on the Pentax site looks a little better b/c it did not have to go through Photobucket compression, but this is the shot.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/IMGP0277.jpg
Gdad
03-24-2008, 10:12 PM
Thats pretty cool Kevin- I had no idea there was such a thing.

I love the frog shot- I would love to see the other 24! ::yes::
Code
03-24-2008, 10:13 PM
Congrats, great work!

(FYI if you change Photobucket's max image size setting to "1 megabyte file size" rather than a fixed dimension then it will not recompress)
orchjoe
03-24-2008, 10:16 PM
That's a great shot... whats the story behind it... Where it was taken?
Pea-n-Me
03-24-2008, 10:39 PM
Neat! :thumbsup2
ukcatfan
03-24-2008, 10:40 PM
Thats pretty cool Kevin- I had no idea there was such a thing.

I love the frog shot- I would love to see the other 24! ::yes::

It is getting late tonight, but I will try to get some of them up here later.

Congrats, great work!

(FYI if you change Photobucket's max image size setting to "1 megabyte file size" rather than a fixed dimension then it will not recompress)

I unfortunately figured that stuff about Photobucket out later on in my experience with it and had already posted too many to take the time to go back and correct the old ones. I use Flock to upload now and it has that option.

That's a great shot... whats the story behind it... Where it was taken?

It was one of my very early on DSLR shots. I was just playing around in my front yard and looked down a banana leaf to find this guy. Here are a couple more similar shots. FWIW, the bananas from this plant ended up being tasty as well!

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/IMGP0896-max_1_NN.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/IMGP0897-max_NN.jpg
Master Mason
03-24-2008, 10:56 PM
Congrats
steery1
03-25-2008, 05:30 AM
Thats a really nice photo Kevin. Well done and congratulations. :)
NostalgicDad
03-25-2008, 07:12 AM
Very cool, Kevin. Way to go!
jann1033
03-25-2008, 07:44 AM
pretty cool! like the way the light is shinning through the leaf:thumbsup2
PhotobearSam
03-25-2008, 07:45 AM
Congrats...


I would love to see the other 24 as well....:thumbsup2
sk8belle
03-25-2008, 08:35 AM
Congratulations! It's well-deserved. I love those frog shots.
Suburbanmom
03-25-2008, 11:10 AM
Very cool! I'm impressed. :)
ukcatfan
03-25-2008, 01:19 PM
Thank you all very much for the kind words. The family and I are doing dinner with my parents tonight, but hopefully I can get some of the others I submitted posted here.

Kevin
Amy
03-25-2008, 02:45 PM
Congrats Kevin!! What a neat shot!:cool1:
Merrywheather
03-25-2008, 06:37 PM
That's awesome! I would love to see more, too! :thumbsup2
ukcatfan
03-25-2008, 09:10 PM
Here are some more that I submitted that I also have out on my Photobucket. There were a few more that I do not have out there. These were all denied.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/IMGP0024-web.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/Sandoval/IMGP1881.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/IMGP0434-2.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/WDW%2012-15/IMGP0779-max_NN.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/Manatee%20Park%20-%201-27-07/IMGP1175-max_NN.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/Manatee%20Park%20-%201-27-07/IMGP1200-max-crop_NN.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/Four%20Mile%20Eco/IMGP1947.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/Four%20Mile%20Eco/IMGP1958.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/Four%20Mile%20Eco/IMGP1970.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/KY%20Trip%20-%20June%202007/IMGP2005.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/KY%20Trip%20-%20June%202007/IMGP2088.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/WDW%20-%20AUG-2007/IMGP2430.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/WDW%20-%20AUG-2007/IMGP2437.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/WDW%20-%20AUG-2007/IMGP2697.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/WDW%20JAN-08/IMGP5120.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/WDW%20JAN-08/IMGP5205.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/WDW%20JAN-08/IMGP5208.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/Manatee%20Park%201-26-08/IMGP5523.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/Manatee%20Park%201-26-08/IMGP5560.jpg
Zoesmama03
03-25-2008, 10:42 PM
Very nice. Love the frogs a lot. :) :thumbsup2 The others are pretty good. I really like the sunsets and butterfly photos too.
cpbjgc
03-26-2008, 10:00 AM
:thumbsup2 Congratulations on being chosen!
Groucho
03-27-2008, 06:52 PM
Congratulations! That is a great shot, it's no surprise that they liked it.

I knew Pentax had set up such a gallery a few months ago but I admit that I never even got around to looking at it... not bad, I'll have to snoop around it a little.
ukcatfan
03-27-2008, 08:48 PM
Thank you.

I don't know if I will ever get another accepted considering most of my shots are at WDW. For some reason, they shot all those down the quickest. Who knows, maybe they have some fear of liability from the Mouse law office.
Groucho
03-27-2008, 09:06 PM
Well, they did allow the self-portait shot from there.

But yeah, there may be concerns about that, as the site is basically an advertisement for using Pentax products, and Disney may not want to be a part of that (without being paid, at least!) They may not realize that your HM shot is from WDW.
ukcatfan
03-27-2008, 09:57 PM
Well, they did allow the self-portait shot from there.

But yeah, there may be concerns about that, as the site is basically an advertisement for using Pentax products, and Disney may not want to be a part of that (without being paid, at least!) They may not realize that your HM shot is from WDW.

The reviewers do not have to approve your artist picture, so they might never look for something like that.

Kevin
Groucho
12-13-2009, 10:49 PM
OK, almost two years after Kevin got in, I finally requested an account on the Pentax photo gallery... and I was happy that I managed to get one in too! :woohoo:

http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/jeffkyle
Suburbanmom
12-14-2009, 08:56 AM
Congrats, Groucho! You do have a way with cars! :) I love the big/small dynamic.
JoeDif
12-14-2009, 11:46 AM
Congrats!!! That is a fantastic image.
MarkBarbieri
12-14-2009, 12:21 PM
Congratulations!

Just a bit of advice. You might want to stop your lens down a little. The car in the back came out kind of fuzzy.;)
SrisonS
12-14-2009, 01:22 PM
Very cool shot!!! Nice " find". And Congrats!!!
Evad
12-14-2009, 03:54 PM
Wow very nice!! Congrats. :thumbsup2
Quicklabs
12-14-2009, 04:06 PM
Well Deserved! Congratulations!
ukcatfan
12-14-2009, 06:45 PM
OK, almost two years after Kevin got in, I finally requested an account on the Pentax photo gallery... and I was happy that I managed to get one in too! :woohoo:

http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/jeffkyle

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

You certainly deserve it more than me! Now that I have my K-x, maybe I will get interested in submitting more again. I think the rules now allow for special effects as long as they were done in camera.
Groucho
12-14-2009, 10:22 PM
Thanks everyone!

The story on that shot was that Hot Wheels had a 40th anniversary display at the 2008 Watkins Glen Vintage Races, including some large-scale mockups next to the final Hot Wheels car. That shot features the Hot Wheels version in the foreground and the mockup in the background. There are more photos of them here (http://www.groucho.org/pics/v/cars/competitions/wgvr2008/?g2_page=3) and on the following page, including a couple other shots of the orange Lotus that is in the gallery photo. Oh, and all non-Pentax lenses just get marked as "other" but that was shot with my Lester A Dine 105mm F2.8 macro. Love that lens!

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

You certainly deserve it more than me! Now that I have my K-x, maybe I will get interested in submitting more again. I think the rules now allow for special effects as long as they were done in camera.
Thanks but hey, I honestly didn't expect any of them to get in but I figured what the heck, and managed to get one accepted in my first submission of ten. I was quite surprised! It's hard to pick out favorite shots to submit, and I've found that what I like is often not what others like (as I've usually find when I put a non-fisheye shot in the weekly contest!)...

As for the rules, I think you're right, I think you can use the various in-camera effects of the DSLRs, like HDR and so on.

Now, if I could get a shot in from my Auto 110, I'll really be proud! :)
Golf4food
12-16-2009, 09:30 AM
Congrats to both of you, fellow Pentaxians.

Question: How do you submit a photo for review? I can't find a link anywhere on the site?
Groucho
12-16-2009, 05:51 PM
You have to go to Site Tools, then Contact Us, and ask for an invitation. You should then get your invite within a few days with further instructions.

I assume they do it this way so that it's clear (in case the need to approval didn't make it obvious enough) that this is not like another Smugmug or Flickr or whatever.