[Leica] Re:born at risk -- over-enlargement

[Summicron1 at aol.com (Summicron1@aol.com)]

i saw an excellent example of this problem at a photo art show i entered a 
couple of years ago. I had two images accepted in the juried show, one shot 
with 
leica, one with minox, the smaller being a 5 by 7 image.

among those rejected that i saw were two massive images -- about 6 by 6 feet 
-- and the artist asked if it was their size that was the problem. the 
official -- not the judge -- said no, it was the judge's choice, and I 
didn't have 
the heart to point out to the shooter that, while his images were large, 
they 
were also not good images at any size that i could see, and i wondered if he 
was 
using size as part of his artistic expression that, taken as a whole with 
his 
image, was supposed to express his meaning.

but, in the end, they were lousy images, made worse by enlargement.

c trentelman
In a message dated 8/2/04 7:46:02 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:


> B. D.:? You've just articulted an unsung General Principle of Photography
> that the pixel peepers have never grokked.? Stated simply, "Sufficiently
> enlarged, all photos looks like crap. And so what?"
> 
>