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Week 48’s Top Players (Nov. 20 – Nov. 26, 2011)

December 5, 2011

· Wedding·

Rob Grant ·Upper Marlboro, MD, US

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  • 875 points earned
  • 10 awards won
  • 33 images submitted
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· Pets·

Connie Fore ·Columbus,GA, US

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  • 858 points earned
  • 12 awards won
  • 14 images submitted
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· Travel·

Benoit Beauchamp ·Montréal,QC, CA

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  • 491 points earned
  • 8 awards won
  • 26 images submitted
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· Landscape & Nature·

Soumen Basu Mallick ·Howrah,West Bengal, IN

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A photographer by nature.

  • 2582 points earned
  • 7 awards won
  • 24 images submitted
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·Architecture & Design·

Gary Pope ·Chattanooga,TN, US

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I am a retired architect taking up my old hobby of photography again. I am interested in many subjects, but mainly man made objects and nature.

  • 458 points earned
  • 4 awards won
  • 8 images submitted
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· Portrait & People·

Will Perrin ·Milton Keynes,England, GB

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just this guy you know

  • 2029 points earned
  • 8 awards won
  • 20 images submitted
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· Commercial & Journalism·

Jayrol Cabagtong ·,,

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  • 329 points earned
  • 2 awards won
  • 3 images submitted
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· Wildlife·

Cheri McEachin ·Westampton,NJ, US

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  • 1717 points earned
  • 10 awards won
  • 15 images submitted
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· Sports·

Benoit Beauchamp ·Montréal,QC, CA

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  • 159 points earned
  • 2 awards won
  • 3 images submitted
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· Fine Art·

Heidi Westum ·Stjørdal,Nord-Trøndelag, NO

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Just love macro 🙂

  • 1137 points earned
  • 4 awards won
  • 4 images submitted
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· Mobile Photos·

Johnrou Bechayda ·Iloilo City,Western Visayas, PH

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just an amateur photographer who takes photos when I travel

  • 110 points earned
  • 3 awards won
  • 21 images submitted
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· Fashion·

Jon de Guzman Jr ·Dubai,Dubai, AE

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  • 169 points earned
  • 3 awards won
  • 4 images submitted
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· Nudes & Boudoir·

Pawel Wodnicki ·Kraków,malopolskie, PL

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Photographer since many years. I’m focused on portrait, fashion, commercial and nude art photography.

  • 75 points earned
  • 3 awards won
  • 4 images submitted
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· Photoshop Art·

Soran Sorin ·Brasov,BV, RO

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  • 219 points earned
  • 1 awards won
  • 1 images submitted
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· Transportation·

Chuck Gordon ·Portsmouth,OH, US

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Retired after 27yrs on the Railroad

  • 500 points earned
  • 4 awards won
  • 6 images submitted
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Week 46’s Top Players (Nov. 6 – Nov. 12, 2011)

November 20, 2011

· Wedding·

Martyn norsworthy ·Kingsbridge, England, GB

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International Award Winning Photographer, loves People, loves life, Never happier than when behind a camera!

  • 168 points earned
  • 1 awards won
  • 4 images submitted
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· Pets·

Connie Fore ·Columbus,GA, US

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  • 887 points earned
  • 9 awards won
  • 18 images submitted
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· Travel·

big hand ·Surrey,BC, CA

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Two of my great passions in life are travel and photography. I believe…>

  • 393 points earned
  • 3 awards won
  • 3 images submitted
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· Landscape & Nature·

Uros Florjancic ·Kranj,, SI

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  • 3679 points earned
  • 4 awards won
  • 6 images submitted
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·Architecture & Design·

Patti Reddoch ·Sweeny,TX, US

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  • 407 points earned
  • 2 awards won
  • 3 images submitted
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· Portrait & People·

Darrin James ·Sydney,NSW, AU

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Passionate wedding photographer who has been very fortunate to have covered over 500 weddings in 14 countries to date. I do what I love and love what I do.

  • 2334 points earned
  • 13 awards won
  • 29 images submitted
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· Commercial & Journalism·

Edwin S. Loyola ·Los Angeles,CA, US

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VISUAL . ARTISTRY . PASSION .
I am a creator, who not only takes photos, but makes them.

  • 215 points earned
  • 1 awards won
  • 13 images submitted
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· Wildlife·

Zvonko Fercic ·Ptuj,, SI

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  • 2368 points earned
  • 16 awards won
  • 59 images submitted
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· Sports·

Darrin James ·Sydney,NSW, AU

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Passionate wedding photographer who has been very fortunate to have covered over 500 weddings in 14 countries to date. I do what I love and love what I do.

  • 181 points earned
  • 4 awards won
  • 4 images submitted
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· Fine Art·

Edwin S. Loyola ·Los Angeles,CA, US

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VISUAL . ARTISTRY . PASSION .
I am a creator, who not only takes photos, but makes them.

  • 1102 points earned
  • 10 awards won
  • 23 images submitted
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· Mobile Photos·

Paul Moore ·Tullamore,, IE

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  • 303 points earned
  • 9 awards won
  • 28 images submitted
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· Fashion·

Pawel Wodnicki ·Kraków,malopolskie, PL

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Photographer since many years. I’m focused on portrait, fashion, commercial and nude art photography.

  • 229 points earned
  • 7 awards won
  • 15 images submitted
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· Nudes & Boudoir·

Carlos Castro ·Maracaibo,Zulia, VE

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Not much to say here, just your average kind of guy.

  • 114 points earned
  • 3 awards won
  • 9 images submitted
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· Photoshop Art·

Tomasz Zaczeniuk ·Lódz,lódzkie, PL

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Born in 1978, now beeing on the way to make photography the way of living. Interested in creating parallel reality with help of photomanipulation and music.

  • 529 points earned
  • 4 awards won
  • 5 images submitted
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· Transportation·

Melanie Ayers Wells-Photography ·Hodgenville,KY, US

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  • 156 points earned
  • 1 awards won
  • 2 images submitted
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Improved ImageDuel Algorithm!

November 16, 2011

We’ve been burning the midnight oil here at Pixoto just released our first major overhaul to the ImageDuel voting system since our Beta launch.  We’ve been listening closely to your feedback and analyzing the data and we think this new version of ImageDuel is a very significant improvement.  Here’s a sampling of what’s new:

  • It’s much faster (actually – the whole site is faster)
  • Inaccurate pausing of great images should be vastly reduced
  • Images with higher ImageScores will get more votes than other images
  • Images now compete only against other images of similar quality (essentially they are in on a ladder system and compete with other images in their “rung”)
  • Established images will not be dragged down by duels with new images
  • New images now compete mostly with new images
  • Improved cheating prevention techniques

We also added EXIF data (e.g. camera, f-stop, aperture, etc) to the image detail page. This is available for all images that have EXIF attached to the file.

Please let us know what you think!

by Jason ·

Week 44’s Top Players (Oct. 23-29, 2011)

November 6, 2011

· Wedding·

simon charlton ·Dubai, Dubai, AE

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  • 378 points earned
  • 5 awards won
  • 14 images submitted
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· Pets·

Betty Gillis ·La Vernia,TX, US

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  • 515 points earned
  • 9 awards won
  • 19 images submitted
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· Travel·

AndreJa Ravnak ·Celje,, SI

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  • 836 points earned
  • 5 awards won
  • 5 images submitted
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· Landscape & Nature·

Boris Frkovic ·Zagreb,Zagreb, HR

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I live and work in Zagreb and by profession I am computer programmer.
Photography is my hobby and passion. I love to take pictures of nature and city.

  • 5009 points earned
  • 14 awards won
  • 19 images submitted
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·Architecture & Design·

Marco Virgone ·Cesano Boscone,Lombardia, IT

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I’m an amateur photographer, 41 years old living in Milano. I love architecture and landscape photograph. i shot with a Nikon D90 + 5 lens

  • 520 points earned
  • 3 awards won
  • 3 images submitted
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· Portrait & People·

Pawel Wodnicki ·Kraków,malopolskie, PL

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Photographer since many years. I’m focused on portrait, fashion, commercial and nude art photography.

  • 3319 points earned
  • 12 awards won
  • 14 images submitted
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· Commercial & Journalism·

Edwin S. Loyola ·Los Angeles,CA, US

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VISUAL . ARTISTRY . PASSION .
I am a creator, who not only takes photos, but makes them.

  • 382 points earned
  • 13 awards won
  • 25 images submitted
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· Wildlife·

ghislain vancampenhoudt ·Grimbergen,Vlaams Gewest, BE

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over 40 years of devotion to photography – nowadays retired and more time to shoot and edit photos.

  • 1469 points earned
  • 4 awards won
  • 7 images submitted
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· Sports·

ante gašpar ·Sinj,Splitsko-dalmatinska, HR

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  • 156 points earned
  • 2 awards won
  • 2 images submitted
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· Fine Art·

Heidi Westum ·Stjørdal,Nord-Trøndelag, NO

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Just love macro 🙂

  • 2823 points earned
  • 18 awards won
  • 24 images submitted
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· Mobile Photos·

Johnrou Bechayda ·Iloilo City,Western Visayas, PH

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just an amateur photographer who takes photos when I travel

  • 407 points earned
  • 7 awards won
  • 17 images submitted
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· Fashion·

Matt Beard ·Los Angeles,CA, US

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  • 115 points earned
  • 1 awards won
  • 3 images submitted
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· Nudes & Boudoir·

Pawel Wodnicki ·Kraków,malopolskie, PL

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Photographer since many years. I’m focused on portrait, fashion, commercial and nude art photography.

  • 134 points earned
  • 4 awards won
  • 9 images submitted
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· Transportation·

Nigel Johnson ·Sunbury,England, GB

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I am a freelance photographer based in Surrey, UK. I have been specialising in family and equestrian portraiture, studio and model portfolio work.

  • 195 points earned
  • 1 awards won
  • 1 images submitted
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by Morgan ·

New Rules and Clarifications

November 4, 2011

We’ve had a lot of feedback lately that there are too many repeat images on the site and that miscategorization is becoming a problem (especially for compiled images).  Based on this feedback we’ve decided to clarify our rules and add a few new ones.  The most important are:

1) Thou shalt not upload an image more than once (without deleting the first one)

2) Thou shall place all compiled images (HDR excluded) in “Photoshop Art” or risk image deletion.

We hope this helps to make Pixoto an even more fun place to come and be inspired.

All the rules can be found in the sidebar of our contest page.

by Jason ·

What it takes to make the cut.

November 3, 2011

Carlos Castro suggested that it would be helpful to see what ImageScore was required in order to get an award (instead of having to do the math).  Thanks for asking Carlos.  The simple answer to this questions is:

To be included in the Top 5% it takes an ImageScore of about 640 and the Top 10% and 20% come it at around 615 and 580 respectively.

This changes from week to week and category to category but should give you a sense of where your images are trending.

Here is full analysis by category:

by Jason ·

ImageDuel Preloading is LIVE!

September 28, 2011

Since the beginning of time (well of Pixoto anyway) we’ve known the best way to handle the transitions in ImageDuel was to preload the next set of images while you were deciding on the first.  This would dramatically speed up the duel process and create a far better user experience.  Unfortunately it also turned out to be really, really hard.  Now Scott (our CTO) is, quite simply, one of the best programmers on the planet and if anybody could make it work – he could.  We know it sounds simple – but given all sorts of challenges like session data, race conditions and an iterating algorithm – it really isn’t.  But he has persisted and after months of putting up with the dreaded spinning wheel:

ImageDuel Preloading is LIVE!

We hope you enjoy the new ImageDuel just that much more – and we congratulate Scott on a job well done.

Keep in mind if you choose images too fast you’ll still see the wheel – so pace yourself and really critique the images in front of you.

by Jason ·

Changes to the contest image limits.

September 18, 2011

Due to the amazing number of images being submitted to Pixoto we have increased the image limits for cash prizes in this weeks, and future, contests.  Details can be found at www.pixoto.com/contest

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We know Pixoto is fun – but can it help your business?

September 15, 2011

Of course the answer to the above is “YES” — in so many ways! Pixoto helps you by enhancing skills, understanding how your photography is viewed, offering validation for prospective clients, enhancing self-confidence, exposing your work to more people, etc. etc.  But how about enhancing your Google credibility?

We just did a study:  We took 333 Players who had won at least 1 award on Pixoto and ran a Google search for their names.  We then recorded the placement of their Pixoto profile page in the search results.  What we found surprised us — especially since we haven’t even started to focus on SEO yet:

51% of the time the Player’s profile appeared in the top 5 results.  20% of the time it was the #1 result!

Prospective clients will usually Google you before hiring you.  And when they do, Pixoto provides you with a nice place for them to land.  A place where your work has been evaluated by your peers and deemed worthy.

Don’t take our word for it.  Go Google yourself!

by Jason ·

New Release: Award Autoshare & Forgot Password

September 13, 2011

We just completed a new release of Pixoto with the following enhancements:

  • Facebook/Twitter awards autoshare:  From now on we will automatically post an award notification to your Facebook wall or Twitter feed if your Player settings are set to do this.  The post will simply say: “My images just won [Number of Awards] ‘best of’ awards on Pixoto.com!” and will link to your profile (or your image in the case that you have only won one award).  We believe this feature is great for our Players because it helps expose more people to your photography and increases your credibility – and good for us because it exposes more people to Pixoto.  A true win-win.  You can set this feature on and off on your player settings page.
  • Forgot your password?  You can have your password reset now.  Also – if you try to log in with email when you previously signed up with Facebook we’ll let you know.  This is the kind of basic usability we are focusing on as we move closer to version 1.0
  • Some ImageDuel enhancements that are necessary to do pre-loading of images.
  • Other bugs and stuff

Let us know if you experience any issues and, as always, keep the feedback coming.

by Jason ·
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