I am writing this here because I know many of you are represented on Pentax Photo Gallery, and because at least five emails to that Gallery have gone unanswered over a period of several months...

My problem is that repeated attempts to post photos to my portfolio on this Forum, are failing, with no explanation in sight. Several months ago, I successfully posted 3 photos there (2 of which have been accepted in their voting process, with one pending), but since then, no joy.

Hopefully someone in Pentax User can give me some guidance on this problem (other than suggesting I email them!!)

I'm looking to buy a used Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 Di LD IF Macro SP AF (Model A001P), for use on my KS-2, that is still in excellent shape, for shipping to Toronto. Anybody out there have such an article?

Go4IT

Thanks JR. Over and out.

I have a few points to make and then I am going to end my posts to this topic.

First, all the comments on my original version of Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling were very positive, as all the persons who posted them would agree. Mag07, though he liked the photo, suggested that he detected a very slight curving in some of the buildings' profiles. Nocturnal corrected Mag07 by saying there were not curves, just slightly converging lines, and that he liked that effect. I however, after a very close examination, found what my fellow PUsers were talking about and decided to take Mag07's advice to make adjustments in LR, and indicated that in a post, openly and HONESTLY.

Then, openly and HONESTLY, I started this forum topic, asking how I could replace the original photo with the adjusted one and still retain the comments. I fail to see what is unfair or dishonest in wanting to retain positive comments. Of course I would have alerted users to the nature of the adjustment because I wanted them to know I improved the photo, thanks to Mag07. If I had instead just uploaded the revised image without touching the first one, I would have achieved the same goal, except that now I would have two images that I was positive would look identical to the vast majority of viewers. Also, I believed PU allows photo updates, because they have a Photo Update button. I am a new member (January 2917), and had no inkling I was doing something unfair or DISHONEST. I still don't "get it".

Will somebody please explain in detail what I did that was unfair? Note that John Riley, who first brought the issue up, used the word "potentially".

And will somebody please tell me if it is even possible to retain comments?

Ii

That's what I was trying to do. After I pressed "update photo" (an option I presume is approved by PU, otherwise why give everyone that option?), I pressed "delete photo", and this brings up a yes/no question, that is, do you want to delete the photo ---the photo--- or not? Obviously the answer is "yes, I want to delete the PHOTO". And when I pressed "yes", all the comments vanished along with the photo. There was no action I could take other than that one, which brings me back to my question, how does one "update a photo?" And can one actually update a photo? If all the site can offer is "delete" a photo, why is an update choice offered?

Now, as to the question of fairness----how is it unfair to anyone unless I changed the photo for the worse? So much worse that commentators would be complaining that their comments no longer apply. But I made a slight and I mean extremely slight change (that probably not 2 people in a hundred would even notice) for the BETTER. Assuming that "update photo" is an OK thing to do, nobody I know would suffer from such an update, so fairness isn't the issue here.

For me, the issue is how do I update in the future?

I just lost all my comments!!!

Thank you JAK. I did those two things. But what do you do next? Do you delete photo, or what?

How do you replace an existing gallery photo with a corrected version of same, without wiping out all the comments that accrued to the first version>

Well, I now have a good collection of notes on WB, and thanks to you all for your posts. I am satisfied the multi-AWB is superior to ordinary AWB, and from here on in I'm going to flip through the various temperature options before I shoot, and not just stick to the AWB I have habitually used. Particularly intrigued by John Riley's modus operandi.

Till the next topic....

All the best,
Go4IT

How does it know? Well, knowing in this case is a lot easier than, say, how the thermos knows whether to keep its contents hot or cold. As far as I know, a thermos doesn't even have electric circuitry. LOL.