[Jewelry making - Article 00402] - Re: [Orchid] The philosophy of choosing jury photos

[Noel Yovovich]

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>     I was talking to Elizabeth Shypert lately and I asked her how one
>     goes about jurying 7,000 slides - that was for the Lark Pendant
>     book.[snip] What she said, though, was that first they went
>     through and tossed all the bad or marginal photography 

    A few years ago, I attended a mock jury where Bruce Baker spoke,
    then we were shown all the slides for an actual show, at about the
    same speed the jury sees them. We were encouraged to score the
    slides like jurors. 

    One thing Baker said that I found to be true is that after a while,
    you are looking for any way to save your energy. That means ignoring
    bad or marginal photography unless the pieces really grab you by the
    throat. It also means rating people whose work you recognize by what
    you know, not what you see. 

    It was an exhausting process, absolutely mind-numbing. It seems that
    slides need to be beautiful works of art in themselves, different
    enough to pop out at stupified jurors, but not so different that
    they don't understand what they're seeing (an objection that has
    been suggested for my own work). Sheesh! The best solution, clearly,
    is to get yourself into so many national publications that the
    jurors pass you because they "know" you... ;>) 

Noel
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