My camera club does monthly competitions, and nothing cements the idea that all judging is subjective until you have the same picture in front of a couple different judges and getting totally different responses from each one.
I don't bother to try to pick what I think the judges will like, I pick what I want to compete with, and let the chips fall where they may. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:15 AM, <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: >> Entering juried exhibits may lead to the same end. > > > Ive been there and bought the tee shirt! And won't be doing so until I know > the judges background. I've had very experiences with some of the judges > that have been on the jury - their background is important if you want your > photographs judged as photographs. Give me a photographer judge any time. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Davis" <jdavi...@yahoo.com> > > Subject: Re: OT - Learning how to choose your best work > > > Offering the photo buying public a portfolio from which to select an image > is a facinating but head shaking experience. > It's a completely unpredictable randome and wonderous exercise that my > result in a degree of insecurity about your own judgement. > Entering juried exhibits may lead to the same end. > > Jack > > From: Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 6:47 AM > Subject: Re: OT - Learning how to choose your best work > > Bruce Walker wrote: > >> Moose Peterson discusses how to edit; ie: learning how to choose just >> your best work. >> >> I like his suggestion of getting work on a restaurant wall and then >> observing people's reactions to it. Could be a cringe-worthy exercise! > > > I think it would be an almost worthless exercise, myself. What > everyone, including Moose Peterson, seems to be missing is the fact > that you have to choose your best work *before* you put on this > "restaurant wall exhibit". How much space is available on the walls? > How many photographs do you shoot in a year? Most of the selection > process takes place before the photos go up. > > Moose Peterson has been shooting so long that his initial selection > process is almost instinctive now. That's why he didn't notice he was > doing it at all in his restaurant wall thought experiment. What he > really wants to do is what Tim Bray identified as the real trick for > someone who makes a living from this stuff: figure out what the public > is going to go for (and buy). > > So I'd say the Moose Peterson experiment is worthless from an artistic > standpoint but useful from a commercial standpoint. It just depends on > what your goal is. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > http://www.robertstech.com/ > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
