Comments on: Onexposure.net

By: Serina La

Serina La — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:21:21 +0000

Nice post I’ve bookmarked http://www.photografica.com.au/iblog/photography/onexposurenet at Digg.com so that i could share it with friends. So i went ahead and used Onexposure.net Photografica as the entry title in my Digg.com bookmark, cause i figured if it was good enough for you to title your blog that then you wouldn’t mind it bookmarked the same way. Cheers!

By: Lionel Falley

Lionel Falley — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:35:15 +0000

Those are some superb images, wish mine were that good!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:04:09 +0000

Geoff,

Welcome back.

/ Jacob

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:27:02 +0000

I’ve decided to give Onexposure another go. As Jacob said, there’s been a few changes over there, the best one I can see being screening from the photographers themselves. Expanding the screening base gets rid of most of the issues I originally had with the site. So while I stand by my original misgivings with the site, I’m always ready to review my attitudes when changes are made. So.. Onexposure, here I come!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:52:24 +0000

Geoff,

We can agree to disagree. The point with my post is simply to inform your visitors that the site has changed a lot since you left. Some of the problems you are pointing at no longer exist.

See you around.

/ Jacob

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:57:27 +0000

Obviously Jacob, it’s all about the critique, and the best way in which to give and receive it. I am well used to critique having posted hundreds of images on forums such as fredmiranda.com and weeklyshot.org and many other such places, as well as my own blog. But with OE I don’t think your method works well at all. We’ll have to agree to disagree. Good luck with the site, I’m sure there are many,
many people who have no problems with it at all.

By: Jacob J

Jacob J — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:49:30 +0000

Hi Geoff.

Just an update – a couple of months ago we implemented a member screening feature were members with 2 or more photos published can decide whether a photo should be on OE or not. We also put almost all appeals there, if they have not been in the member screening before. So, the 4 screeners in our screening team only have the final word (of course they instantly accepts photos of very high quality and rejects photos that doesn’t have anything).

I am still surprised how a relatively small site like OE can trigger so much anger and hard feelings. Seems like either you love it or you hate it depending on personality.

I think there is a place for Onexposure.net on the web. We don’t say we will give advanced feedback to the most professional photographers. We don’t claim to be experts at photography. But, every day our contributing photographers receive superb feedback on rejected photos in our photo critique forum and we publish many awesome photos daily that our members want to see there that also recieve comments and critique. As long as our users continue to appreciate how we run the site we will not change this concept. A rejection does not mean that the photo is bad – it just means that it is not yet ready for publishing on OE. Good ways to handle a rejection is to either learn from the critique or just ignore and go on. Not take it personally.

About your post – I don’t agree that your rejected photos was better than the published photos you pointed at. Feel free to post them here together with your photo if you want others opinion. As one of the founders of Onexposure I agree that screening is a process that has problems, but this is what makes us unique and different out there. So far the project is going extremely well and we are very happy about it.

Good luck with future photography and just send me an e-mail if you want to have another look at the site (your account is still there).

/ Jacob

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:08:14 +0000

It says clearly when you sign up that nowords.no is part of the stable and that they’ll use the images on there. That’s not really my issue with the place. To me, it’s the structure that’s troubling, not so much the end results, cause they can obviously vary quite a lot.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:02:56 +0000

Hi Vernon – I respect your photography a lot, but do you really think you get good feedback from OE? I mean worth the effort of supporting the site?

By: Vernon.Trent

Vernon.Trent — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:31:01 +0000

hehe, this OE thing makes the round
there were some small “fights” in the google groups and on some blogger forums as well. both sides tried to argue and it ended with a “draw”
“nowords” was and is still a part of OE (folder)
nowords.nu domain just points to that folder.
thats all I know and is for interest for me.
with all the other things, I don’t care. if someone don’t like my pics and they got rejected, it’s ok and normal.
it shows that you have something special with a restricted amount of fans or is not “mainstream”.
for me is like a study, to find out how my images affects on the viewer, too “artsy-fartsy”, too abstract, too bla-bla

cheers and regards
v.t.