This book is a long answer to these questions:
•‘How do you judge a photograph?’
•‘What makes a photograph good or bad?’
•‘How can you spot one great photograph from thousands of others?’
•‘Surely judging photography is totally subjective?’
•‘What’s the difference between a good photograph and a bad one?’
•‘How do you know what is a good photo?’ If you are a photography judge, this book aims to give you all the information you need to perform your duties with skill, flair, and fairness. With the thousands of competitions, prizes, awards, concourses and tournaments that take place around the world, there is a pressing need for a clear, authoritative manual to guide photo-judges. The book is key reading and reference material for those who wish to enter their images to photography competitions or concours.It is a comprehensive handbook for those who have the responsibility to judge photographic entries for awards or prizes.Contents:
•Practical matters: how to set up, how to judge, how to score
•Essentials: concepts, dimensions of photography
•How to win prizes in competitions
•Five Levels of Appreciation
•Judging image aesthetics
•Technical dimensions
•Panel sequencing
•Visual exercises
•Image manipulation
•Scoring systems
•Competition rules
•Disqualifications
•Giving feedback
•References