2009 PL Calendar, TIME FOR YOUR VOTES ! ! !

[Edson Carlos]

The initial round of voting is complete on the 2009 PL Calendar Photos. The surprise next step involves YOU! Over 600 images were submitted, obviously not all made it past the initial round of voting. So now the finalists album is public and will allow YOU to rate photos like crazy to select the best of the best. Your ratings count once, but we want you to look at things from a quality perspective, don't worry that you don't vote for yourself or your best friend, no one will ever know! Unlike other contests I like anonymity to avoid cat fights. Voting is open until midnight (PST) on FRIDAY! Thats 5 days of madness so spread the word to all your friends! You do need to be registered to vote. With that said keep the following in mind when helping us select the winners:

1: It is not about the model, its about quality photos!

2: Sooooo, check for:
- creativity
- a natural looking pose
- a natural smile
- a well lit photograph
- a well framed photo, any limbs cut off? any lightposts coming out of peoples heads?
- great makeup, I don't have to tell you how to do that ;)

Now you will need to know how to rate photos, you an learn to do so by watching the video below:


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SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!? TIME TO START VOTING! HEAD OVER TO THE FINALISTS ALBUM AT:
The 2009 PL CALENDAR GALLERY!

[Edson Carlos]

FYI, a few have asked about whether we received all their photo submissions because they do not see them. Over 600 images were submitted, obviously not all made them past the initial round, if you do not see your photos, thank you for your submission, and see you again next year!

[Miss Missy Photography]

SO MANY people will sign up now I hope it doesn't turn into a popularity contest.

[Desirée {PL Team}]

Me too, Miss Missy! That's why we are encouraging people to take in all aspects of the photograph - not just who's in it, or who took it. This Calendar is truly about using THE BEST images.


Miss Missy Photography said:

SO MANY people will sign up now I hope it doesn't turn into a popularity contest.

[Ellie Retrophilia]

I think I messed up...I kinda just stuck comments wherever. Are we voting under the actual photo or somewhere else? I'm confused. Course never did take much to confuse me.

[Edson Carlos]

Please watch the video thats in the first post, you must rate the photos Ellie! Errrrr, thats why I made a video!

[Ellie Retrophilia]

I can't be technologically proficient and cute at the same time! :)

Daddy Cool said:

Please watch the video thats in the first post, you must rate the photos Ellie! Errrrr, thats why I made a video!

[Edson Carlos]

LOL So perfectly played! =)) bravo!

Ellie Retrophilia said:

I can't be technologically proficient and cute at the same time! :)

Daddy Cool said:

Please watch the video thats in the first post, you must rate the photos Ellie! Errrrr, thats why I made a video!

[Desirée {PL Team}]

ONLY TWO MORE DAYS LEFT TO VOTE!!
Make sure to get yours in there!

[Victoria Ortega-Allen]

yes! yes! get your votes in. I am excited to see the outcome of this. Hell I'm happyto have made it to this round. =)

[Miss Missy Photography]

For the amazing photographers that didn't get an army in here to vote I hope they will still have a chance to be in the calendar..I've seen some really amazing photos with hardly any responce and then some not so great photos that have a huge responce..I was wondering if the 3 people who picked the photos for the finals will be doing some cuts with what they think is good quality, because even though I do have a huge support I know others don't.

Desirée said:

Me too, Miss Missy! That's why we are encouraging people to take in all aspects of the photograph - not just who's in it, or who took it. This Calendar is truly about using THE BEST images.


Miss Missy Photography said:

SO MANY people will sign up now I hope it doesn't turn into a popularity contest.

[Mallory Page]

Ahhh Im in the Finals!!! Please Vote!!! xoxoxoxo Mallory Page

[Edson Carlos]

Don't go by what you see, the number of comments on a photo or number of views means nothing, just a tidbit, many of the current TOP photos have 0 comments. 3 people voting a photo Five stars, could drive that photo to the top, while a photo getting rated 10 times, with 2 five star votes, and a couple ones and twos may not match the one with 3 five star votes. Its all statistics, we don't do anything half assed here at PL like leaving myspace comments to count a vote, funk that, we're about metrics and fairness =) Ratings are being tracked to crazy decimal points... check this sample rating: 3.1875000000001 out of 5 .

How many tenths is that? Yup, serious business... One photographer pulled out his photos this morning stating the "competition" was a joke. Little did he know that his photo was by the numbers well ranked. Oh well, go ahead and walk off stage while your public views, it's not on us =) And don't mind being near the last pages either, many photos near the last pages have the top rank, this means people are totally being picky, which is fantastic. Think you know the outcome by selecting "Display by Top Rated"? BRRRRT The software will not count all the decimal places in the database, all 1s,2s,3s, etc will be lumped in chunks in no real order...

As you can see ranking has GREAT power vs voting. And of course, there are more than 12 slots for the calendar, and we will make sure its an amazing and diverse spread. Nowhere did we state ONLY/ALL THE TOP 12 PHOTOGRAPHS would make it in...

NOW GO VOTE! ! ! ! Be as picky as we are! It's anonymous!