DIGITAL/PRINT JUDGE COMMENTARY meetings are the same as a regular Competitions but without assigning awards to images. In other words, the paid judge will perform the commentary on images as he or she would do in a Competition but will not then rank the images.
This will allow more time for the commentary. We will announce both the Image Title as well as the Maker when each image is first shown rather withholding the maker name till after the review. This will then allow the judge to interact with the maker during the commentary.
For these sessions, all images will be considered as being in the "Open" category. Starting in 2024, the number of images you can submit depends on how many images you submitted to the Digital Competition earlier this month:
- If you submitted 0 or 1 images to the Digital Competition, you may submit up to 3 images to this commentary
- If you submitted 2 images to the Digital Competition, you may submit up to 2 images to this commentary
- If you submitted 3 images to the Digital Competition, you may submit up to 1 image to this commentary
For technical reasons, we will use one category for each priority. All images in “Special Category 1” will be reviewed in random order, regardless of assigned priority. As time permits, we will move on to all the images in “Special Category 2” in random order regardless of priority. And, if time still permits we will then review the images in “Special Category 3” in random order regardless of priority.
The judge will be Anthony Nex.
Club Announcements will start around 6:50 but the actual commentary on images will not start before 7:00.