Congrats to everyone! I am loving this! Even though I haven't won a place in the top ten yet, it still is quite stimulating! Perhaps next round...
I do have a dumb question. (I think they multiply in my head like rabbits)
How many votes does each judge have? I mean, I loved having the tabulation of who got how many votes, but it made me confused a bit. Do the judges only have 10 votes total, or do they get to rank each picture as well by giving them more than one vote (or one or none!)? The reason why I asked is that the big winners had over 30 votes for them. And if there is only 60 votes total... hmmm.
This question is probably answered somewhere else, but I haven't found it.
I was pretty tickled to have 3 votes, but looking at it closer, it may not be as wonderful as I had first thought.
How many votes does each judge have? I mean, I loved having the tabulation of who got how many votes, but it made me confused a bit. Do the judges only have 10 votes total, or do they get to rank each picture as well by giving them more than one vote (or one or none!)? The reason why I asked is that the big winners had over 30 votes for them. And if there is only 60 votes total... hmmm.
This question is probably answered somewhere else, but I haven't found it.
The judges pick their top ten photos, and rank them from 1 to 10 (1 being their favorite, and ten having barely made their list.
The rank is inverted to apply points. A photo that ranks a 1 gets 10 points, a photo that ranks a 10 gets 1 point.
All those points get tallied and the final top ten is chosen from the photos that have the most points.
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"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
The judges pick their top ten photos, and rank them from 1 to 10 (1 being their favorite, and ten having barely made their list.
The rank is inverted to apply points. A photo that ranks a 1 gets 10 points, a photo that ranks a 10 gets 1 point.
All those points get tallied and the final top ten is chosen from the photos that have the most points.
Thanks for that explanation... I figured it must be something like that. Now it is nice to know what you all actually do. Good job setting this up- you guys are awesome!
The judges pick their top ten photos, and rank them from 1 to 10 (1 being their favorite, and ten having barely made their list.
The rank is inverted to apply points. A photo that ranks a 1 gets 10 points, a photo that ranks a 10 gets 1 point.
All those points get tallied and the final top ten is chosen from the photos that have the most points.
Not to say it happened this way, but given these rules one judge ranking a photo #1 would have been sufficient to put it in the top 10. The other side of that coin is that all 6 judges could have selected a photo near the bottom of their list and it might not have made it in. Another way to look at this is that #10 on one judge's list is only 1 point better than the other 90 photos entered which, given the competition, means you have a pretty good photo but it doesn't get you far toward qualifying.
What this means in practice is that convincing one or two judges that your photo is great is better than convincing all 6 that your photo is good enough. Mind you, I don't have any specific advice about how to achieve that goal...
Congratulations to all. Well done.
Never mind not making it into the first ten. I couldn’t even come up with an entry this time that I found worth while putting forward.
That is depressing, believe you me.
A great photo is generally better than a photo that is good enough
We are trying to motivate people to go out and create great photos. Do that and the rest will take care of itself
Truely great photos are the ones that stand the test of time. That, of course, is a test which can't really be applied in this format. It would be interesting to run a poll in a year to see which shots people like best after seeing them in the banner for a year.
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Congrats again!
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I do have a dumb question. (I think they multiply in my head like rabbits)
How many votes does each judge have? I mean, I loved having the tabulation of who got how many votes, but it made me confused a bit. Do the judges only have 10 votes total, or do they get to rank each picture as well by giving them more than one vote (or one or none!)? The reason why I asked is that the big winners had over 30 votes for them. And if there is only 60 votes total... hmmm.
This question is probably answered somewhere else, but I haven't found it.
I was pretty tickled to have 3 votes, but looking at it closer, it may not be as wonderful as I had first thought.
The judges pick their top ten photos, and rank them from 1 to 10 (1 being their favorite, and ten having barely made their list.
The rank is inverted to apply points. A photo that ranks a 1 gets 10 points, a photo that ranks a 10 gets 1 point.
All those points get tallied and the final top ten is chosen from the photos that have the most points.
"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
would it not be easier to rank them from 10 to 1 then (10 being the favorite, and 1 having barely made their list)?
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Thanks for that explanation... I figured it must be something like that. Now it is nice to know what you all actually do. Good job setting this up- you guys are awesome!
Not to say it happened this way, but given these rules one judge ranking a photo #1 would have been sufficient to put it in the top 10. The other side of that coin is that all 6 judges could have selected a photo near the bottom of their list and it might not have made it in. Another way to look at this is that #10 on one judge's list is only 1 point better than the other 90 photos entered which, given the competition, means you have a pretty good photo but it doesn't get you far toward qualifying.
What this means in practice is that convincing one or two judges that your photo is great is better than convincing all 6 that your photo is good enough. Mind you, I don't have any specific advice about how to achieve that goal...
Conceptually, but the change in the amount of work still needed is negligble.
"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
A great photo is generally better than a photo that is good enough
We are trying to motivate people to go out and create great photos. Do that and the rest will take care of itself
"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
Those two points can be the launching point to great things
Congratulations on earning them
"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
Never mind not making it into the first ten. I couldn’t even come up with an entry this time that I found worth while putting forward.
That is depressing, believe you me.
Truely great photos are the ones that stand the test of time. That, of course, is a test which can't really be applied in this format. It would be interesting to run a poll in a year to see which shots people like best after seeing them in the banner for a year.
That would be interesting!
"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
I can't believe how much I'm learning by studying all of the very talented photographers photos posted in these forums.
Thank you so much for sharing
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I do not need to tell anyone that #4 was a great challenge......
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