Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information