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So I just received notification that I didn’t achieve the CPAGB award that I’d attempted. Obviously this is a bit disappointing but as with any judging you take it on the chin and crack on. The Credit award is based on “good club photography”.  Ergo mine isn’t! 🙂 What I don’t quite get is the spread of my scores although at the end of the day photography is very subjective.  By way of explanation the PAGB system employs 6 judges.  The judges vote on each image based on a yes or no criteria.  A yes  should therefore in principle receive 24 points (6 x 4)Read More →

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  So as I started playing about with photography a bit more and particularly after going to a couple of camera clubs I thought I’d like to see how my pics compare against a wider group.  A kind of benchmarking if you like.  There’s various ways I suppose you can do this, the most obvious being competitions and qualifications, awards and distinctions. Club competitions are a fun way pit your skills against the other members of your club.  The big problem here is the vagaries of judging!  By and large I think I do ok but my own choice pics do consistently better than theRead More →