"Bob Franke" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
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> You may base you scores on anything you wish.  Some voters feel that each
> image should stand on its own and not be compared to the others.  I find
> this impossible to do.  This is why WinVote has sorting features.
>

I agree - even when I manage to lay down my basic votes in one session, winvote
is invaluable for showing up inconsistencies and cross-contamination.

I tend to avoid sorting by total vote until the last moment, and will sort by
the individual catagories and tweak my votes until the order seems right for the
catagories.

> The hard part of voting is to apply your voting style consistently and
> fairly.

Winvote is certainly a big help here - my personal voting rules are:

Artistic - based on composition and aesthetics, make a strong effort to ignore
the technical qualities of the image.

Technical - very hard to get right, but good images without explanation of
technique get a baseline 10. If I get the artistic score right, then I don't
feel too bad about giving pleasent but technically simplistic images a low
score.

Concept - 1-9 means off-topic of varying degrees, and such a score will affect
the images other scores (1 means that I reduce the other scores to 10% of what I
would otherwise have given, 2 to 20% etc.). 10 means on-topic, but not really
saying anything interesting about the topic, 20 would mean a highly original
interpretation. Scores of 10 or higher mean no adjustment to the scores in the
other catagories.

Keeping artistic and concept votes separate is hard - I try to do this by
thinking of the concept as being a written description of the image, which can
include artistic attributes, and the artistic vote referring to the execution.

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