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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ohkphoto" data-source="post: 164958" data-attributes="member: 1573">Maybe a better way to look at the rating (1-5) is that when you post a photo to critique, you start out at a "0", so points are then added.  Getting a rating of 4 is still excellent.  In my mind, if I rate "lighting" as a 4, but impact as a 5, then what it means is that the lighting could have been better, maybe, but it didn't take anything away from the photo and the other elements carried the merit of the photo.It's not a competition to see how many perfect scores you can get.  The rating system is more for the people doing the critique, to help them go through the merit elements.</blockquote>