Hello all,
We have now sorted through the photos that were received. This was done by putting the photos through an internal judging process whereby a panel of judges comprising of 9 members from our team scrutinized each of the 6,500 photos and gave each a rating. Below are the details of this panel of judges as well as the process of rating.
The selected panel of judges from our team are:
Umair Badeeu
Photographer and student of photo journalism
Aahid Rasheed
Lawyer
Xiena Saeed
Writer
Ali Nishan
Photo-journalist
Ifham Niyaz
Freelance writer
Fathimath Salah
Interior Designer
Hani Amir
Diver
Aminath Ula
Freelance Videographer
Elisha Jameel
Radio Presenter
The judging process
Each judge was given secure access to the photos database where they were able to view and rate one photograph at a time. No other details were shown to the judges. The rating was done using the gradient bar below.
Judges were asked to rate each photo for their relevance to the 350 project. Highest relevance would be in the red zone and lowest in the blue zone.
After rating was completed (in about 4 days) the top 4,000 photos were chosen as a sample to generate a short-listing. The following rules were then applied to this selection:
- The highest rated photograph from each photographer was selected
- If this photo was found to be irrelevant to the 350 project then another photo from the same photographer was chosen to give him/her a chance in the final selection
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We are now shortlisting from the selection of the top 4,000 photos based on ranking in the previously mentioned rating and by our resident photo curator and judge Umair Badeeu.
my friend just said “photographic version of american idol”!
this is what i get!!!???!! after so much trouble submitting best of my photographic life?? some judges who wants to be famous??? if my pictures are not selected i will take you to court!…. i am ok with Umeyru, but who are the rest??? do they even know how to take pictures…..? you must open voting for public….. or voting for the Judges to the public….. this is absurd!!!!
i think the panel of judges are in the same ring as umair, maybe you guys should bring in environmentalist or even civil servants involved in reviving our nation. it looks to me like its more of a art judging panel where as the whole idea is to simply get a message across the oceans.
So my thought would be to introduce a few more guys who has travelled and met a lot of the ordinary people to judge these photos.
Now the panel is more like a ‘wannabe judges’, sorry but it truly does.
@jalil
Thank you for your thoughts. The judges on the panel that was assigned the task of sorting the 6,500 photos did the job of just separating what could be considered usable or not while giving their rating on how relevant a particular photo was to the project. The final selection will not be decided based on these rankings alone. Indeed, the idea is to get a message across the oceans and not to simply send postcards.
after the judges, there’s yet another hierarchical step up the ladder to get the final selection? ………