Tuesday 19th November
We had a workshop on Tuesday run by Kathy and Julia, two members of ImageZ who are also Judges. The aims of the evening were to briefly re-visit the factors involved in assessing images and to help us improve the critique of our own work to improve our photography for the process of competitions.
Kathy and Julia had prepared a power- point and in groups we were asked to think about qualities we felt were shown in good judging. We fed back table by table and many interesting comments were shared. We were also asked to discuss if we needed Judges to give scores or was the critique the most important requirement.
The next activity was to look at six images and rate them from one to six using these categories.
Initial impact – is it interesting, does it hold attention, does the eye have a resting place?
Feelings – are there any feelings or emotions created by the image? – pleasure, humour, sadness, empathy with subject.
Subject – is the main subject obvious? Does it fit with any theme set?
After our break we were asked to look at twenty images and were given 3 seconds to judge them from best to worst using the tools we had already discussed.
Again, we were asked to feedback comments from each table, and it was interesting to see how opinions differed. The photographs came from different genres including, Street, Landscape, Natural history, and Architecture.
The evening was highly informative and got us all thinking as well as being fun. I’m sure we will be looking to see if our images have the Wow factor, need cropping, tell a story, or have good technical qualities.
Thank you to Julia and Kathy who presented this workshop very well.
Thank you to Kathy for allowing me to use parts of her power-point in this blog.
Blog post written by Carol Haines
Next Week: Guest Speaker – How to be Original – Simon Turnball