[Leica] Picture of the Year Controversy

[nod at bouncing.org (Philip Clarke)]

He almost certainly "shoots to the right" (I believe this is the 
expression used to indicate over-exposing and using the RAW headroom), 
the point being that in a raw alone competition he would certainly have 
lost. I think that the portfolio images are better representative of the 
grime and dirt under blue skies although the over-saturation of the 
other colours in the pictures are too much IMO as it gives an impression 
of people trying to add a splash of colour (be it on a wall or a chair 
or item of clothing) to improve their lot (and that I have seen). If 
there is to be grime, it should be well represented and realistic, but 
without the attractive aspects.

Philip.

Mark Rabiner wrote:
> The Raws were poor?
> The Raws here were being illustrated as being flat and over exposed.
> Had the Raws been illustrated correctly or differently no one would be
> calling them "poor". Perhaps they'd be called slightly below average?
> Or slightly above.
> And the contrast between the Raw and the psd or jpg would be nowhere near 
> as
> great. He burned down the sky and ground and optimised those selected 
> areas.
> Big deal.
> We don't know what the circumstances of who got that raw image rendered 
> what
> his so called "default settings" were on his raw plug in or whatever it 
> was.
> No one understands this stuff.
> Its supposed to be like a negative;
> Or in this case perhaps a positive, an over exposed slide.
> We don't really know it was over exposed; or flat.
> It could have been the opposite.
> But its more complicated than that as it has to be opened with so called
> "default" settings which means what? No one knows. Someone said it depends
> on which software you used, which plug it; but its the settings.
>
> Let's face it. It was you, Charley.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>   
>> From: Philip Clarke <nod at bouncing.org>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:48:26 +0100
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Picture of the Year Controversy
>>
>> George Lottermoser wrote:
>>     
>>> As always - the questions at hand,
>>> "where do we draw the line between:
>>> journalism
>>> art
>>> self expression
>>> visual truth?"
>>>       
>> I reckon the line just got drawn by the competition judges. Then if
>> Steve McCurry had been banned from using Kodachrome, the Afghan girl
>> picture wouldn't have been as good:
>>
>> http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/afghan-gir
>> l-cover.html
>>
>> (looks better at an exhibition). I think the competition judges have a
>> point though, the RAW's were poor, and any other photographer in that
>> competition that had shot straight would have been registering
>> objections faster than a burst of flash if the guy had won a prize. I
>> say great artistry, poor RAWS, thumbs down for photojournalism.
>>
>> Philip.
>>     
>
>
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