Last night, I felt, the judge crossed a 'Judges Rubicon' by being unable to award any picture, whatever the subject, a mark from the full range of marks available.
I totally agree with you Simon. You need to leave your prejudices / preferences at home when you judge. You simply need to judge the quality and merits of the photo alone. She also said she didn't like landscapes!!
Simon I sneaked a look at your print as you put it in the same day as me. I thought it was superb, 17 definitely undermarked. I was told by a juddge that if an image is technically perfect it should always get 18 and then the last two marks were for images above and beyond or favourites.
Having said that, I don't think my Chenobyl image was technically perfect so it shouldn't have scored 20.
Let’s not forget the last time we invited these judges, I remember similar negative comments by members being made back then. From my very limited experience the judging on Monday was in short disappointing.
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Last night, I felt, the judge crossed a 'Judges Rubicon' by being unable to award any picture, whatever the subject, a mark from the full range of marks available.
I totally agree with you Simon. You need to leave your prejudices / preferences at home when you judge. You simply need to judge the quality and merits of the photo alone. She also said she didn't like landscapes!!
Simon I sneaked a look at your print as you put it in the same day as me. I thought it was superb, 17 definitely undermarked. I was told by a juddge that if an image is technically perfect it should always get 18 and then the last two marks were for images above and beyond or favourites.
Having said that, I don't think my Chenobyl image was technically perfect so it shouldn't have scored 20.
Let’s not forget the last time we invited these judges, I remember similar negative comments by members being made back then. From my very limited experience the judging on Monday was in short disappointing.