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| The most common reason for this not working is a pop up blocker that has been turned on. If you have a pop up blocker on, try turning it off. |
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| To start the process, go to the ‘Photog. Find Detail’ from the Quick Nav. Once there find the person you want to pay for and click on the Pay For link to the right of the person’s name. The system will take you to a premium membership page. Follow the process from there. |
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The jury is different each month. People are on the jury for a few months and are then replaced by new jurors. Jurors are added and deleted every month. There are always about 40 jury members. Jury members are representative of the community and are chosen based on their character and on their ability to be discerning.
Jurors are able to put photos into a queue as the month progresses. At the end of the month, they have 4 days to select their shortlist and put those photos into categories. After that, they have 4 days to complete final voting. Following is the email jurors receive during the selection process:
On May 1st (today) at 00:00:01 am the system will give you a new set of links in the Extras page. To get to the Extras click on the MY PHOTOPOINTS tab and you will see the link to the Extras page. These links will be available to you until May 4th at 11:59:59 pm.
The new links you will find there are 'Select Shortlist' and 'Shortlist'.
Select Shortlist: This link will display all the photos you selected in the month of April. From this list you will be allowed to select up to 60 photos to be placed in your Shortlist. You should pick your best photos to add to your Shortlist. There is no need for you to delete anything from your long list. The long list will be deleted by the system automatically when it is no longer needed.
Shortlist: This link will display all the photos (up to 60) which you selected in the previous link. Next to the photos, you will find the categories you may put each photo into. You may choose up to 30 photos to place into categories. You may place the same photo into multiple categories or you may place different photos in different categories. You may also skip categories if you wish. See below for the definition of categories.
On May 5th at 00:00:01 am the system will close the links mentioned above and open up a new link in the Extras page. This link will be available until May 8th at 11:59:59 pm.
This new link 'Select Photo of the Month' will display a list of all the categories. From this page, you select each category to vote on. When you select a category, you will be taken to a page where you can vote on the photos in that category. Below each thumbnail you will see 'First Place', 'Second Place', and 'Third Place' radio buttons. In order to vote, you need to make your first place, second place and third place choices. You may vote for photos that you have nominated but not for your own photos.
On May 9th at 00:00:01 am the system will end the voting and select the winner in each category as well as the Best in Show.
IMPORTANT: When nominating and voting please keep the emphasis on the photo and not the photographer. Whether you like or dislike a photographer or feel they have won too many times already should not play a part in your decision making. You should only be selecting photos that you think are truly deserving of POM. |
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| PhotoPoints only allows the direct link to photos in the gallery. It doesn’t allow it in the main PhotoPoints flow. There are two reasons for that. One reason is that it makes it a bit harder for someone to write a program that reads the thumbnail page and from there be able to do a massive download of photos which will slow the system down. The other reason is that it prevents people from providing links directly to their photos in the critiques or comments they give as some people may be offended by those links. |
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| You will find the change password functionality by going to MY PHOTOPOINTS and clicking on the Extras page. |
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The following guidelines should help you deal effectively with conflicts and misunderstandings.
1. Deal with issues as soon as possible when they arise. The longer a conflict remains unresolved, the more likely it is to explode. It's much harder to discuss old business than to focus on immediate and specific issues.
2. Make a commitment to solving the problem. A commitment means you are ready to own your part of the conflict and take steps to resolve it. Be ready to change your behavior if need be.
3. Understand your own feelings, thoughts, and perceptions around the issue so that you can communicate your position clearly. Blame, name-calling, or put-downs are not helpful in resolving conflicts.
4. Discuss the issue in the right setting. For example, wait until tempers are cool, and then discuss the issue privately.
5. Focus on the issue, not on the other person. The more specific you are about the issue to be addressed, the more likely it is to be resolved.
6. Listen to and respect the other person's position even if you do not agree with it. Make sure you are really hearing others and not just listening for what you expect to hear from them. What is their goal or interest in resolving the issue? What do they really want?
7. Explore and create options for solving the problem that are mutually agreeable to all parties. When people really hear and understand both sides of an issue, a win-win solution is often possible.
8. If you have a conflict with a specific person, talk to that person about it, not to others. If someone comes to you with problems about others, give them the same advice! Gossip fuels conflict. It does nothing to resolve it.
9. If you are unable to resolve a conflict directly, then you are welcome to lodge a complaint at abuse@photopoints.com. You need never bring a personal complaint to the public forums. |
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| As a premium member you are allowed to submit 5 photos every 5 days. How the system computes this is by going back 5 pictures in your portfolio starting with the newest. Then the system will add 5 days or to be more precise 120 hours to the submission time of that photo to compute the next time you may submit a photo. So if your 5th photo going back was submitted on May 26th at 5:23:15 PM as an example. The system will add 120 hours to that date/time and will tell you that the next time you can submit is May 31st at 5:23:15 PM. |
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| Before you click to ‘Full Window’ link you may want to choose a different background on the adjuster bar. The background color is carried over to the full window view. |
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The link for Premium Membership payment is found on the bottom right hand side of MY PHOTOPOINTS. However, you will not see the link unless your current membership is to expire within the next 30 days or is already expired.
You may pay for your membership either by PayPal, checks or money order drawn on a US Bank, traveler’s checks issued by American Express or Visa in US Dollars. In order to pay by check, money order or traveler’s checks, you will find a link to the form you would print out which has the address to where to send the check. Another option to pay is via wire transfer. Please email us at premium@photopoints.com to get the instructions for money wire transfer. |
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There are two kinds of premium members, the free premium members and the paying premium members. A free premium member is one who just joined the site and gets the first 30 days premium membership for free. A paying member is someone who has paid for the membership. Currently, there are two benefits which a free premium member doesn’t enjoy. One is the ability to ask questions of the experts, and the other is the privilege of not seeing ads.
However, for a paying member to stop seeing ads, he/she will have close the browser and start it up again after payment has been received by PhotoPoints. The system recognizes the fact that the individual is a paying member at log in time. |
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| Photopoints is United States Central Time. GMT-06 |
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| There are two reasons why you are not allowed to give a photographer points. The first is the photographer has chosen to be a Critique Only photographer. The second reason is that the photo may have been submitted to a different area from your area of choice. For instance, if you are in area 2 and someone submits a photo to area 1, you will not be able to give that photo points. |
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| It is possible that you submitted a picture and it doesn’t show in the main page. The reason for this is that you selected to make the picture private. A private picture will not show up in the main page. To make a picture public please take a look at the FAQ called ‘Why Make a Picture Private?’ |
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Some people have asked how PhotoPoints keeps track of emails sent using the system. PhotoPoints doesn’t keep track of emails sent. Below is an explanation of how this works.
When a person selects to have his/her email address public (only premium members can do this) the system will allow others to send messages using a mail web page. The sender never sees the email address of the recipient. Once the recipient receives the email he/she decides if he/she wants to reply. Only if the recipient replies will the sender know the email address. When the system sends the email to the recipient, the system doesn’t keep a copy of it.
Because of the form used to send the email, people have the impression that PhotoPoints has an internal mail system. PhotoPoints doesn’t have an internal mail system to route messages between members. There are two reasons for that.
1) We didn’t feel the need to create this since email systems already exist and everyone on the web has access to at least one. Adding this functionality to our system would only decrease performance and there is really no need for it.
2) So that emails will remain private. |
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| The Dark Room is the place for those photos which you don’t think are quite ready to go into the main photo area. These are the photos that may be experimental; a new style, a new camera, or anything you’d like extra help with. Here is where your photo can be really picked apart so know that when you enter the Dark Room you will get lots of helpful advice but be ready for critiques that get to the core of any problems your photo may have. This area will only display your photos for 72 hours. |
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Eligible photos for Photo of the Week are selected from 4 groups.
The first group is the highest rated photographs. The second group is the highest rating average photographs. The third group is the highest commented CO photographs. And the fourth group is the one with the highest check marks "Selected Photos".
The system starts out by selecting the highest rated photos. Then it adds each photo to the selection as long as the photographer has less than 2 photos already selected. Then the system looks at the highest averaged photos. It adds each photo to the selection as long as the photographer has less than 2 photos already selected. Then the system looks at the highest commented photos from CO photographers and adds each photo to the selection as long at the photographer has less than 2 photos already selected. Finally the system will look at the photos that have the highest check marks "Selected Photos."
This selection yields photographs from 108 different photographers. Each photographer may have up to 2 photos in the selection. Therefore, the maximum number of photos which may be selected by the system for Photo of the Week is 216.
When selecting the photos, the system looks at photos submitted the prior week. The system does the selection 5 minutes or so after midnight on Monday morning. The system then puts these photos up for a community vote through out the day on Monday. 5 minutes after midnight on Tuesday morning, the system stops the voting and selects the top 6 photos with the highest rating to be photos of the week. The rest of the photos can be viewed then in points received order from highest to lowest.
The voting is done anonymously. Only the system knows who has voted and what points were given. The points given during voting are never displayed to the community. Also while the voting is taking place the names of the photographers are not displayed. |
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Featured photos of the day are selected from 4 groups in Areas 1 and 2 and from 3 groups in Area 3. There are only 3 groups in Area 3 as Area 3 doesn't have selected photos.
The first group in each Area is the highest rated photographs. The second group is the highest rating average photographs. The third group is the highest commented CO photographs. And the fourth group is those with the highest number of check marks ("Selected Photos".)
The system starts out by selecting the highest rated photos. Then it adds each photo to the selection as long as the photographer doesn’t yet have a photo selected. Then the system looks at the highest averaged photos. It adds each photo to the selection as long as the photographer doesn’t yet have a photo selected. Then the system looks at the highest commented photos from CO photographers and adds each photo to the selection as long as the photographer doesn’t yet have a photo selected. And finally the system looks at the check marked "Selected Photos."
From each group in each Area there will be up to 27 photographs selected.
The thumbnails will display the total points or CO comments that each photo had on the day it was selected by the system.
When selecting the photos, the system looks at photos submitted 2 days ago. So for instance, today’s Featured Photos were submitted on May 6th. The reason we do that is so that the photos will always have their photographer’s name displayed. |
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| PhotoPoints hides the name of the photographer for the first 24 hours after submission. We do this to emphasize the photo and not the photographer who submitted it. This is not a foolproof way to hide the name. Many people simply recognize the photos submitted by others because of the style, subject or many other factors. |
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