[Leica] [LRflex] Re: Over-processed

[Frank Filippone]

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
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