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Roy Sewall Photography |
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Training By Joe Miller’s Center for the Photographic Arts, Northern Virginia Alliance of Camera Clubs. See www.nvacc.org How I perceive my role as a judge I view the first and foremost role of a judge to be an educator. For novices, the educational experience will hopefully be an increased awareness of the basic issues that comprise good photography. For advanced photographers, the educational experience will be to further their understanding of how others (who perhaps are peers) view their work, as opposed to learning the basics. Criteria for judging The criteria I use are as follows: Compliance with the competition theme is a go/no-go criterion. Emotional impact is how the photo gets me in the gut – it includes the choice of the subject, creativity, originality, mood, and (in some cases) story-telling. Artistry is composition, use of color, light, texture, perspective, taking the viewer’s eyes to the right place, absence of distracting items (such as miscellaneous stuff in the edges and corners), use of picture space, etc. Technical issues are sharpness, depth of field, exposure, control of details in the highs and lows, print quality, matting quality, etc. Presuming the photo is compliant with the competition theme, I view emotional impact as the highest priority criterion. If it isn’t there, the photo is “out.” Next, artistry and technical issues have roughly the same weight, but this depends on the context of the photograph. Judging assignments
February 2006 – North Bethesda Camera Club (3-person panel) May 2006 – Silver Spring Camera Club January 2007 - Northern Virginia Photographic Society April 2007 - Washington Apple Pi (Mac Users’ Group) First Annual Photo Contest (2-person judging team) October 2007 – Gaithersburg Camera Club November 2007 – Frederick Camera Clique January 2008 – Rossmoor Camera Club February 2008 – Silver Spring Camera Club October 2008 – Reston Photographic Society November 2008 - Frederick Camera Clique January 2009 - Manassas-Warrenton Camera Club February 2009 – Silver Spring Camera Club May 2009—Vienna Photographic Society September 2009—National Institutes of Health Camera Club October 2009—Northern Virginia Photographic Society October 2009—Rossmoor Camera Club November 2009—Gaithersburg Camera Club March 2010—Loudoun Photography Club
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