MCPF Judge's Seminar 2025

Event Details

Nov 29th 2025
MCPF Judges Seminar  - FULLY BOOKED

Resume your Passion, Get Motivated
Do You See Yourself Being a Judge

The MCPF council are seeking to encourage keen photographers
Who feel they would like to make a difference and take the next step to be a Photographic Judge
This Judges Seminar has at its core a workshop designed to help existing and encourage new judges alike to develop and understand how to be a better Judge.
The Seminar Workshop is designed to be interactive
Developing a partnership between the MCPF the Club and 
Judges to be Informative, Positive, Encouraging, Critical, and Consistent.
The seminar is free to MCPF club members -  FULLY BOOKED 

Seminar Workshop Agenda

Opening Comments
The Workshop will cover all aspects of judging which will include but not limited to

First Session 
•    Taking booking 
•    Agreeing expenses 
•    Meeting the clubs requirements related to their rules and scoring 
•     Identify the criteria by which you will be judging the images on
•    How to present yourself to your audience
•    The criterion to be Informative, Positive, Encouraging, Critical, Consist
•    Identifying with examples of both good and poor content and quality
•    Proposing how to meet and improve quality of prints and DPI’s
•    Marking and Scoring
•    The Do’s and Don’ts 
•    MCPF Judges Registration
•    PAGB Central Entries System (CES ) How to Do It
•    PAGB Competitions
  
Second  Session 
Interactive image judging where to start
•    Identifying the criterion of your critique
•    Making initial positive comments
•    Identifying the image strengths
•    Identifying where image could be improved
•    Identifying the paper choice

Teas and coffees available, bring own food.