[Leica] [LRflex] Re: Over-processed

[Douglas Barry]

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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