Judging Photos

[Jack Davis]

Volume judging is a matter of quick elimination by seeking out even a
subtle negative impression. Sometimes the matting or framing cause
rejection. As the offerings are culled of quick rejects, the process
slows to an eventual series of compromises between perhaps a panel of
judges. I suspect that it often comes down to a matter of a convincing
presentation by a judge coming at the end of a tiring session.

Jack

--- Bruce Dayton <bkdayton at daytonphoto.com> wrote:

> Didn't this already start to happen when Velvia came on the scene to
> give us that over-the-top punchy color in slides?  I'm sure our
> viewing mediums have had some impact, but so has our social
> environment.  Today, information is thrown at us in a very fast,
> concentrated way.  All the media types do it - short, fast
> commercials, movies instead of books, etc.  So to stand out from the
> crowd - there has to be something catchy.  Photography is just a
> follow on to that.
> 
> Some of my thoughts...
> 
> -- 
> Bruce
> 
> 
> Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 11:12:44 AM, you wrote:
> 
> mw> Doug Brewer wrote:
> >> mike wilson wrote:
> >> 
> >>>>From: Mark Cassino <mcassino at chartermi.net>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Overall - it was a pretty interesting experience. I always
> imagined
> >>>>judges looking at my photos like I look at them - pouring over
> them for
> >>>>a long time, looking at the nuance and detail. I should of put 2
> + 2
> >>>>together - when you consider the numbers of photos they are
> looking at,
> >>>>it's a pretty snap judgment process. And the slightest technical
> fault
> >>>>can get your image booted...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Your impressions coincide with my belief of the direction
> >>>photography is going since the advent of consumer digital
> >>>equipment.  It would be interesting to get the impression of
> >>>someone who has been regularly judging during the changeover from
> >>>chemical to digital.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Not sure what you mean here.
> >> 
> 
> mw> I think that the possible subtleties of "chemical" pictures are
> being
> mw> lost/abandoned in favour of "smack'em in the eye" colour and
> graphic
> mw> composition.  It's only an impression, which I have no empirical 
> mw> evidence for, but two people on this list in the last month have 
> mw> mentioned it.  My belief is that the preponderance of viewing
> onscreen,
> mw> using thumbnails to choose which pictures to look at in any
> depth,
> mw> reinforces this type of selection.
> 
> 
> 
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