Monthly Archives: November 2011

Week 46’s Top Players (Nov. 6 – Nov. 12, 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!

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!

Week 45’s Top Players (Oct. 30-Nov. 5, 2011)

· Wedding·

Darrin James ·Sydney, NSW, AU

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  • 412 points earned
  • 10 awards won
  • 45 images submitted
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· Pets·

Connie Fore ·Columbus,GA, US

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  • 625 points earned
  • 5 awards won
  • 10 images submitted
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· Travel·

Glen Unsworth ·Newton Abbot,England, GB

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I’ve been into photography for about 7 years now, ever since i got the travel bug. I am also into graphic design as a hobby.

  • 235 points earned
  • 3 awards won
  • 4 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.

  • 4405 points earned
  • 13 awards won
  • 15 images submitted
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·Architecture & Design·

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.

  • 338 points earned
  • 1 awards won
  • 5 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.

  • 3578 points earned
  • 19 awards won
  • 25 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.

  • 341 points earned
  • 6 awards won
  • 17 images submitted
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· Wildlife·

Connie Fore ·Columbus,GA, US

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  • 1111 points earned
  • 2 awards won
  • 4 images submitted
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· Sports·

Liz Rosas ·Huntington Beach,CA, US

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Author, photographer, retired school teacher living in southern California looking for the beauty and irony in life.

  • 85 points earned
  • 3 awards won
  • 12 images submitted
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· Fine Art·

Heidi Westum ·Stjørdal,Nord-Trøndelag, NO

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Just love macro 🙂

  • 1334 points earned
  • 13 awards won
  • 15 images submitted
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· Mobile Photos·

Roger Clay ·Corona,CA, US

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I am currently a Peace Officer with the State of California . What started as a hobby has now turned into a passion . The Iphone and its camera applications may be one of the best purchases I have ever made ..

  • 220 points earned
  • 4 awards won
  • 7 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.

  • 218 points earned
  • 5 awards won
  • 9 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.

  • 133 points earned
  • 5 awards won
  • 16 images submitted
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· Photoshop Art·

Iwan Ramawan ·Pontianak,Kalimantan Barat, ID

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  • 179 points earned
  • 3 awards won
  • 9 images submitted
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· Transportation·

Jazmyne Kelly ·Castletown,Isle of Man, GB

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16 years old beginner in photogrpahy so im pretty rubbish.

  • 158 points earned
  • 1 awards won
  • 1 images submitted
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Week 44’s Top Players (Oct. 23-29, 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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New Rules and Clarifications

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.

What it takes to make the cut.

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: