Originally Posted by
DanK
Some years ago, I had occasion to hear judgments from two professionals in two separate contexts. Both where curators of photography. One of them judged as excellent a photo that looked to me like a snapshot taken for an insurance adjuster. It showed a fallen tree crushing a metal fence on the edge of a tennis court. It wasn't level, and it was very drab, lacking in contrast. I would have considered it a discard. In the other case, the judge showed a few photos that she was particularly pleased to have acquired. One was an amorphous black blob with small random white dots scattered about. It looked like finger painting by a 20-month-old.