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Subject: [Leica] URL: National Geographic Traveller Photography competition
From: ken at iisaka.com (Ken Iisaka)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:34:59 -0800
References: <LO2P265MB12470876DF6D10EEF825A4C5F97E0@LO2P265MB1247.GBRP265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> <80AC4013-1AB2-4D7B-9FC3-E34D63769243@bex.net>

Some of the Marrakesh photos hurt my eyes.

They are equivalent to auto-tuned, highly compressed, studio-produced
soundtracks. There is hardly any resemblance of reality.

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 07:53, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> Eyebrows raised by the degree of post-processing in many of the images? I
> agree, but as Tina pointed out, that kind of image seems to be what
> ?sells?. I?d have hoped the editors of NatGeo would have had different
> standards?
>
> ?howard
>
> > On Feb 21, 2019, at 8:51 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/national-geographic-travel-photography-nature-cities-people-a8789841.html
> >
> > Quite surprised that the 'Marrakesh' portfolio was chosen....
> >
> > john
> >
> >
> >
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Ken Iisaka
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In reply to: Message from john at mcmaster.co.uk (John McMaster) ([Leica] URL: National Geographic Traveller Photography competition)
Message from hlritter at bex.net (Howard L Ritter Jr) ([Leica] URL: National Geographic Traveller Photography competition)