Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank was referring to an email from the Leica Users Group.? Here is the link for those interested in what started the whole discussion. https://petapixel.com/2022/02/02/the-winners-of-the-international-landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2021/ Aram On 2/9/2022 12:05 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: > Ermm, Frank, all very fascinating I'm sure. I know I've been busy, and > may have overlooked the topic you are talking about, but I haven't > seen anything on this topic on the LUG. Have you been over processing > and included a process that should have been excluded - to whit the > LUG email address when the email should have only gone to LRflex? The > curious need to know. > :-) > Douglas > > > On 09/02/2022 19:24, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote: >> I take exception to the way this topic is going.... uppity. >> >> First, it is about Nature, and not Photo Journalism.?? Thus, >> manipulation of the image is up to the Artist.? There is no right or >> wrong.? Anything is fair, that passes the rules of the competition.? >> Since it did indeed win, it must have passed the rules. >> >> Second, the image was granted a People?s Choice Award.? Which, to my >> way of thinking, it is an award SELECTED by the general population, >> not a judge. The concept of Taste, artistry, technical achievement, >> etc has no standard.? It really also is not a concept that was the >> basis for giving it an award. >> >> Third, the general talk that I hear is that the population in general >> LIKES and favors "over saturated" images.? Same was true on >> Pictorialism in the early 1900's.? It is a FASHION or TREND, not a >> fact.? Certainly not a rule. >> >> Last:? it all about taste. Maybe not yours, maybe not mine, but, in >> truth, someone had to vote it "Best" of the applicants. Someone liked >> it, best. >> >> So let's not get too uppity.... it is one form of expression that >> someone else liked....?? That is all it is.... And judging it, >> outside the rules of the contest in which it was submitted, is unfair >> to the artist, and, in my estimation, pretty petty. >> >> Let's all be a bit more lenient and less judgemental. >> >> my $0.02 >> >> Frank Filippone >> BMWRed735i at gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Aram Langhans (Semi) Retired Science Teacher & Unemployed photographer ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson