Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Those photos all look like inspirational posters that should have some quote on them to be hung on the walls of some corporate office. Thanks, Leo Wesson 817-733-9157 Leo at leowesson.com > On Feb 12, 2022, at 9:27 AM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > ?Frank was referring to an email from the Leica Users Group. Here is the > link for those interested in what started the whole discussion. > > https://petapixel.com/2022/02/02/the-winners-of-the-international-landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2021/ > > Aram > > >> On 2/9/2022 12:05 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: >> 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 >> >> > -- > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information