Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/24

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Subject: [Leica] Photo contest rules/policy question
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Thu Aug 24 18:27:23 2006
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Maybe, but aren't you assuming that a small group of appointed
judges would necessarily be the "best" photo critics on this list?

I don't see this as a valid assumption.

Just as likely, availability of the proposed judge's time would
be a big factor in selecting judges.  And the current more
commercially active photographer might well have the least
amount of time and patience to judge a contest like this.

And while a the sample of photogs on the LUG probably doesn't
equally represent all styles of photography, the populist approach
gives someone's superbly executed "scantily clad model, sprayed
olive oil sweat, gold filters on the big softboxes, airbrushed ersatz
Maxim cover photo" shot a flying chance of winning :-)

Scott

Eric wrote:

>I'm not really sure how a populist approach is going to help any of us learn
>or grow.  Numbers by themselves are meaningless.
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