I just listened to the podcast from last night. Great job Connie, but while i was there I also listened to your interview of the St. Louis & Des Moine show directos. King from Des Moines says at one point that it a good idea to attend an open jury (which I have) and then he states that with technology now you can even view some shows jurying process online. I had never heard of this opportunity. Does anyone know of any shows that you can look at the jury online?
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I live in the Des Moines area and applied to the DM Arts Fest, so I went to physically view some of the images being projected during the pre-jury viewing. They view all work up front before judging it, and that is when they let you view it in person. Since this is my first year I wanted to see how my photographs showed on the screens. I was surprised as my images are very bright and vivid, just check out my images on my web site, but on the screens they looked rather dull. After the photographers work was done displaying I ran home to see what it looked like on the web . . . .
. . . although I thought it would be a great service, as Larry Berman mentioned, they are shown in a dark room and 99% of the images were washed out and unsharp. I did send Steven King a note suggesting that perhaps they could change their lighting so they would show up better, but never heard anything back. The audio was not good, and much of the time the video did not stream well, and during some of the actual judging there was no video.
Here are a couple of suggestions that I would like to through out there into the ether. Get rid of projectors and change over to large flat panel TV's. The quality of the images will be much better for the judges, with the light coming from behind, all images become much richer than those being projected. The 2nd suggestion would be for internet viewers to view a slide show, which can have all the images to be judged on a single page, just like the judges will see them. And my 3rd suggestion here is that I would like to get feedback on my submission (which would go back to you the artist). I have no idea how I ranked, and what I did right or wrong, because I do not get to see my score. For my money all I get is "Yes your in" or "No your not". They must have given me a score, but what was it? You find out nothing from the streaming web cast since you cannot hear what the judges have to say about anything. That is probably best for the judges as there cannot be any reprisals for that, but what were my scores?
I did not get accepted to the DM Arts Fest, but I did get into the ArtFest Midwest held the same weekend. I will be improving my booth image this year for next years submissions, even though I thought I was in the upper 25% of the submissions I viewed (but of course with only being able to accept about 20% of the submissions, that could have dropped me a bit too low.) Just the views of a beginner!
- Larry A. Stevens
www.larryastevensphotographics,com
Any of the online juries I've tried to watch were not good.
The jury takes place in a dark room with the projected images being the brightest parts of the room. The camera tries to average the exposure and brightens the dark areas of the room to the point where the projected images become overexposed so it's difficult making out what you are looking at.
The most you can do is set your monitor resolution to the lowest, 640x480, so the video appears larger on screen, and turn out the room lights.
No comparison to being there in person.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
the ft. myers, fl show has an online jury