digital photography plus: dp+ Pick - top 9 ranking - photo challenge 6

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

dp+ Pick - top 9 ranking - photo challenge 6 - exceptional flower photos

10 entries made it to the dp+ Pick for photo challenge 6 with theme Exceptional Flower Photos. It means only 10 entries made it to the judges' top 3 choices. If all 5 judges would each have their own different set of top 3 picks, there would be 15 entries included here instead of 10. It means that one or more judges chose the same entries as their top 3 picks.

Instead of 10 rankings, however, there will only be Top 9 Ranks. 2 entries tied at Top 3 both scoring 170/500 each. They are Ric Tan and Derlin Zhang. Both of these entrants also got a 10 points deduction from the 2 judges who voted for their entries. 5 points deduction from each judge for having watermarks on their entries. Top 2 entry went to Lennox Tpc with a score of 184/500 and Top 1 went to Jane Woodhouse with a score of 279/500.

It should be noted that for this challenge, only Jane Woodhouse was picked by 3 judges. Top 2 and 3 were picked by 2 judges and the rest were picked by only one judge each.

There were 5 judges as before, 2 are part of the dp+ administration and 3 are select members of the group. Each judge picked their top 3 choices from all the entries and scored them based on 4 criteria which include Quality or the technical aspect of the photo (30%), Creativity and Originality (30%), Theme Adaptation (20%) and Overall Impact or Impression (20%). Each also gave their reasons for their picks. A total of 100% per judge is the perfect score in all categories per entry. Final perfect score is 500 points with 100 point percentage from each of the 5 judges. The one who gets the highest score wins.

So congratulations to the 9 entries who made it to the dp+ top 9 ranks and here are their rankings in reverse order from top 9 to top 1: