Digital BW, The Print

All,

If you have the PERFECT print, I'm assuming it is art, according to 
your's or the viewer's interpretation. Obvious defects may sometimes 
be a way to focus attention and add to the impact of the image. When 
you judge a print, more on technical merit than on the aesthetic, 
what are you looking for? Several posts have been helpful, such as 
this: 

But what do you do when you see a beautiful pictorial image with a 
very
obvious rule that was broken? Suppose you had a very smooth gray sky,
but the right corner was much too light. You KNOW it's supposed to be
uniform across the print, but there it is... the corner is a full stop
lighter than the rest of the sky. It would make a beautiful picture a
very average one, and you'd wonder why it wasn't even. You'd ask why 
in
the world the prints maker didn't burn it in.