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The Rubric Bank — with all five levels

234 written Arabic criteria, each with five anchors describing exactly what separates one level from the next. These are the same criteria your work is measured against — open to read before you pay anything.

Having your own work read against one criterion (optional):

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Art
Skill
Level

30 criteria

PHO-I-03 Taste Intermediate
Negative Space and Deliberate Framing

Deliberately leaving detail-free space around the subject, giving it visual breathing room and emphasizing its isolation or scale within the context.

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PHO-I-04 Observation Intermediate
Intentional Light Direction and Quality

Reading the light's direction and its hardness or softness and using it deliberately — such as Rembrandt lighting or golden-hour light — rather than accepting whatever light happens to be available.

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PHO-I-05 Expression Intermediate
Color Temperature Grading in Service of Mood

Adjusting color temperature and tone in post-processing consistently across the whole frame to support one deliberate, specific mood.

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PHO-I-06 Construction Intermediate
Layered Composition: Foreground, Midground, Background

Building the frame from multiple cooperating layers — a foreground element, a midground subject, and a background — to create depth and layered narrative rather than a single flat plane.

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PHO-I-07 Observation Intermediate
Decisive-Moment Timing

Capturing the fraction of a second where the subject's movement and the scene's composition intersect at their most meaningful point, through anticipation rather than chance.

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PHO-I-08 Taste Intermediate
Post-Processing Restraint

Post-capture edits serve a vision already present in the shot, rather than attempting to rescue a weak capture with excessive effects.

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