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Subject: [Leica] [LRflex] Re: Over-processed with a link
From: leowesson at gmail.com (Leo Wesson)
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:42:49 -0600
References: <DM6PR04MB540305D256D18E02E18FBBFDB8319@DM6PR04MB5403.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>

Those photos all look like inspirational posters that should have some quote 
on them to be hung on the walls of some corporate office. 

Thanks,

Leo Wesson
817-733-9157
Leo at leowesson.com

> On Feb 12, 2022, at 9:27 AM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> ?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
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
> -- 
> Aram Langhans
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> & Unemployed photographer
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> would ever have dared dream.?   James D. Watson
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