Judge’s Instructions

Caulfield Photographic has ungraded competitions with four sections - Open Print, Open Projected, Set Subject Print and Set Subject Projected.

Judges are asked to:

• §  When assessing images, consider attributes such as aesthetics, originality, imagination, impact, mood and message. While an assessment of the technical quality of an image is important, it should not override the consideration of its artistic or emotional merits. While you may refer to the title of an image to seek clarification of the photographer’s intent, particularly in relation to set subject images, the title is not relevant to the assessment of an image

  §  Please read and note the provided set subject brief. This brief has also been provided to members, so set subject images should be assessed with the brief in mind. Set subject entries should reflect or interpret the assigned subject for that month with reference to the brief, ideally in an artistic and creative manner.

  §  Images can be nominated as Highly Commended or Commended

  §  The Highly Commended award should be reserved for images of a higher standard within each section. There is no limit on how many Highly Commended awards may be given in each section.

  §  Commended awards will generally be for images of a high standard, but may also be awarded to images which have flaws but show interesting approaches, artistic value or inventive use of technique

  §  Approximately 40% of entries overall should receive an award. Judges should feel free to award more images than this if they feel the standard of entries merits it.

  §  Please select four highly commended images from all entries presented as Images of the Month. The four selected images can come from any section, and more than one image per section may be selected. Please limit these awards to one per member (based on member competition numbers on the entry sheets). You are encouraged (but not required) to select entries from a variety of genres to be awarded.

  §  A brief spoken critique of each image on the night of the presentation would be appreciated. Written critiques are not required.

  §  Please do not edit images presented for judging

  Judges are invited to present and talk to 10-15 of their own images in digital or print format (or equivalent in other media) at the end of their judging presentation.

Please aim to complete the judging presentation and your own presentation within 90 minutes.