Digital BW, The Print

No--I did not miss your point. Your customers (the pro photographers
who have not succeeded in winning) will whine. The rules for judging
are very  straightforward--at least as staightforward as a subjective
thing like judging art can be. 

It sounds as though you have professional photographers coming to you
for some service. If you had a good set of initials after your
name--it would help you in the eyes of those pros. They would simply
think: wow! This guy is good enough to have won in spite of how they
judge! 

Even if you do not win--you learn lots by having had your work judged.
Rather than be annoyed, you can simply dismiss it and try again later. 
If you work is good--you will ultimately end up with the creditials
that will help you. 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia
<mark@...> wrote:
>
> I think you are missing my point. I was only stating what my  
> customers (pro photographers) were saying.
> 
> The competition thing may contain better quality then the work I saw  
> being judged, but the way the judges knocked off points for things as  
> silly as the head in a portrait was not at the "correct" angle made  
> me want to agree with my customers.
> 
> I am more interested in knowing if the letters really do work as a  
> marketing tool.
> Mark