[Leica] Picture of the Year Controversy

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 5:07 PM -0400 4/20/09, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net wrote:
>Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
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>... the raw file is shown as a very low contrast over exposed by a full
>stop and a half image.
><<<
>
>The contrast and color saturation of his raw file makes it look like an
>over-exposed slide film made with an older consumer zoom lens with a cheap
>UV filter slapped on the front and no hood.  His photoshopped final reminds
>me of my very brief use of Velvia with Leica prime lenses.
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>

The pictures are like Velvia printed on reversal paper. This type of 
manipulation is unappealing to me, just like those Velvia prints 
would be, but disqualifying him on that basis seems foolish. If you 
don't like those pictures, don't vote for them. If the content is 
good enough to let him win, then as long as the 'content' hasn't been 
changed, let them stand. If poor technical quality disqualifies 
photos, Capa's D-day landing picture wouldn't have gotten very far.

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