For the international contest there are only quality prizes - countries are
of course free to choose to give a quantity prize. WLM-nl has always done
this though - but not for the most photos, but for the person who submitted
photos of the most individual monuments. That seems to have worked well,
On 06/22/2012 10:09 AM, Lodewijk wrote:
This is not the first time this topic has come up - every time it is
about throwing up thresholds for photographers because we believe that
it increases quality. Actually, we learned that it doesn't. The lower
the thresholds, the less restrictions we put on
I agree with Lodewijk about the Philosophy of the contest. But also for a
practical reason: how much is 'too much'?
Probably for a small statue or house, 10 is more than enough. But there are
other monuments that can be much more complicate. In our case, Easter
Island as a whole is a national monu
Hi Peter,
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Peter Ekman wrote:
> 1. Let the photographer decide which of his photos is best - say 1 for the
> entire contest or 1 for each day he/she uploads.
I strongly oppose this idea. From my experience last year, this will
ruin much of the fun. Almost every w
The disadvantage of that method is:
a) it is incredibly geeky. I haven't got it to work properly - let alone I
could explain it easily to someone who learned to photograph in the analog
times
b) it is a rather binary method - it is in the category or out. That
doesn't allow any degrees.
It is a po
I couldn't agree more with Lodewijk. Please have a look to
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fa%C3%A7ade_et_parvis_de_l%27%C3%A9glise_Saint-Jacques_d%27Assyrie_(Hauteluce,_Savoie,_France).jpg,
it is a gateway to a hundred pictures of the same church (with notes). This
is the kind of awesome th
This is not the first time this topic has come up - every time it is about
throwing up thresholds for photographers because we believe that it
increases quality. Actually, we learned that it doesn't. The lower the
thresholds, the less restrictions we put on people, the more submissions we
will get.
Hi all,
two issues are getting mixed up here. So I'm going to split the thread.
I'll start a new thread about a maximum number of photos per photographer
in a minute.
About the jury. In the Netherlands we had contact with professional
newspaper photographers, and I was told by them it was totally
