[Leica] [LRflex] Re: Over-processed with a link

[Aram Langhans]

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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