David Eastley LRPS came to judge our round of the Southern Fed. Projected Image League competition tonight, which is an annual fixture.
There are 7 clubs in our league and each club enters 8 images. So 56 pictures to be judged.
In my opinionDavid is amongst the very best judges that we have had at SCC. He always started by giving his immediate reaction to the image in front of him and then slowly analysed it, pointing out the good and not so good elements. Even if the picture did not appeal to him, he went on to point out things like effort that the author had gone to thinking up and taking the picture and giving points to reward that. He certainly did not award points for every aspect of the picture, separately, as a way of judging as suggested last week at our judging evening. But to be fair it is how some judges are taught to do things.
The other good aspect of the evening was to experience marking out of 10 points, which to my mind is far more sensible than Sussex”s marking out of 20 (which results in marks in practice being between 20 and 14).Six out of ten feels much better than, twelve out off twenty does it not?? Answers on a postcard please.
All that aside, SCC did pretty well coming Third with sixty seven and a half out of a possible 80. First were Aldershot, Farnham Fleet with Seventy and a half, and Second were The Practical CCof Southampton.
It was great to see a big variety of images with lots of different styles and having a first class judge went together to make a very enjoyable evening.
Thank you David and we hope to get you back!