On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Peter Ekman wrote:
It seems to me that you can't possibly give a jury a 1,000 photos and expect them to come up with anything reasonable. That type of system would also drive away quality jurors - the best jurors simply wouldn't have time for all that. And if we're talking about 10,000 photos, it just gets worse. There has to be some sort of pre-screening, whether we like it or not.
A jury put in front of 1000 or more photos would have a difficult job, but with a pre-screening you can get to a few hundreds of images and a reasonable amount of work.
A couple of suggestions for pre-screening:
- Let the photographer decide which of his photos is best - say 1 for the
entire contest or 1 for each day he/she uploads. 2. Have a contest each day, with a each photographer who uploaded that day nominating a single photo, and letting the community vote (I'd say +1 for each photo you like) then after a few days a selected screener from the community selects 2 or 3 photos from the group that has the highest score. After 30 days, you'd have 60-90 photos that the jury can deal with, each photog would have had the chance to nominate his best photos (multiple times), the community would have their say, and the screeners would not have to deal with 1,000s of photos.
Something like that would require a large organizational effort and a large community, which is not the case for most of the participating countries. Small teams and small communities will have to "Keep It Simple and Stupid". [1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle