{"id":80,"date":"2012-02-09T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proterra.wordpress.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2012-02-09T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T13:40:10","slug":"upcoming-photographic-judging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/2012\/02\/09\/upcoming-photographic-judging\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Photographic Judging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So as a quick introduction I'm a certified <a title=\"Southern Photographic Federation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=3&amp;ved=0CEYQFjAC&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southernfed.org.uk%2F&amp;ei=c7szT5XbIIaeOv_HtYgC&amp;usg=AFQjCNGvb3Yru1q5MDYDb_ajE4nEglPkUA&amp;sig2=vTBpzlQVqAM1aUeh7MaW6A\">Southern Photographic Federation<\/a> Class B Judge. Meaning basically I can go to Photographic Societies within the SouthernFed's region and judge their internal club competitions.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief hiatus whilst jnr #2 was born when I couldn't commit to doing any evenings out as of April I should be back!\u00a0 So I've looked up the list of photographic judging that I'm been asked to do.<\/p>\n<p>There are 6 dates currently booked into the calendar at a variety of clubs (Woolston provisional).\u00a0 You're all welcome of course to come and see what goes on.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4th April - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petersfieldphotographicsociety.org.uk\">Petersfield Photographic Society\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>24th April -<a href=\"http:\/\/farehamportchestercc.wordpress.com\/\"> Fareham and Portchester Camera Club\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>30 May - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woolstoncameraclub.com\">Woolston Camera Club<\/a><\/li>\n<li>5th September - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaulieucameragroup.co.uk\">Beaulieu Camera Group\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>7 November - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marwellphotogroup.org.uk\">Marwell Photographic Society\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>16 Jan 2013 - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horndeancameraclub.org.uk\">Horndean Camera Club<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of these I've only been to Marwell before. I'm really looking forward to going to Marwell - it's a small club but with some talented members and a very warm welcome (plus it's my first camera club!)<\/p>\n<p>But equally I'm also looking forward to going to the other clubs.\u00a0 Looking at their websites there all have talented members.<\/p>\n<p>Within the camera club and photographic society compensation circuit I will honestly say that these competitions are strange beasts.\u00a0 It's all too often to hear lots of comments about the randomness or odd remarks from judges (and I've made them myself to be honest).\u00a0 Or for Judges to forget that they have haven't separated their own personal preferences from their assessment of an image.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside for a different take on photo critiquing have a look at\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1014\/\">this edition <\/a>of XKCD.<\/p>\n<p>But we still put these competitions into our society's schedules so they must be fulfilling some need (and I argue they do)<\/p>\n<p>Last year I put a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/calanais\/a-judges-view-of-photos\">presentation <\/a>together on how Judges think and critiquing photos.\u00a0 I'm going to try and expand on that in an article to give some background to how I judge.\u00a0 It's only fair I think to present the 'marking scheme'.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as a quick introduction I&#8217;m a certified Southern Photographic Federation Class B Judge. Meaning basically I can go to Photographic Societies within the SouthernFed&#8217;s region and judge their internal club competitions. After a brief hiatus whilst jnr #2 was born when I couldn&#8217;t commit to doing any evenings out&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/2012\/02\/09\/upcoming-photographic-judging\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-internal-club-competitions","tag-photographic-societies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}