Another ridiculous "contest"

[Speedfreak]

http://www.adorama.com/ALC/BlogArti...3686&alias=Ken-Rockwell-Photo-Contest-Winners

"This image is all about a strong yellow band flowing from left to right. I don't know or care what are the details or how it was made; it's the only image of the top 25 that had a strong design element: the yellow band."

Right on Mr. Rockwell.

 

[Keith]

Aside from his choice of winner ... a lot of over saturated HDR look images in that selection.

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

amusing! but boy am I growing tired of this... I don't even know how to call this. thanks for the link. 😀

 

[charjohncarter]

The portrait of the girl on the porch was my winner, but I guess it didn't have an over saturated yellow band.

 

[boomguy57]

Not to be mean, but...I wonder sometimes how people get to the point where they think they should enter a particular shot in a contest. AND I wonder how these finalists were selected from "over 10,000 images".

I no longer wonder, however, about Mr. Rockwell. BUT, I wonder how he got famous. Ever read some of his more recent stuff. Oof.

 

[victoriapio]

agree with the comments in that why would you hold a contest that "exposes" your weakness as a judge of photographs? I know the only criteria was to "catch his eye" but that makes the contest harder to judge, I thnk.

 

[JayM]

Contests and juried exhibitions taught me that I'm a bad photographer.

Either I'd get in and be surrounded by bad photographs, leaving me to assume that my photograph was also bad or I wouldn't get in and really run of the mill stuff would, leaving me with the same assumption.

 

[Keith]

I'm fascinated by his philosphy of an image needing to work as a thumbnail before it warrants any real attention or scrutiny. What a negative approach to art in any form!

Let's shrink the Mona Lisa down to a postage stamp size, whack it on a computer monitor and see how good it looks ... sorry Leonardo, it doesn't make the grade! 🙄

 

[kdemas]

I'm fascinated by his philosphy of an image needing to work as a thumbnail before it warrants any real attention or scrutiny. What a negative approach to art in any form!

Let's shrink the Mona Lisa down to a postage stamp size, whack it on a computer monitor and see how good it looks ... sorry Leonardo, it doesn't make the grade! 🙄

That's a very good point Keith.

 

[merciless49]

I saw the pictures and chuckled to myself. I really take his opinion with a huge bag of salt. That said, I wanted an iPad and didn't want to pay for it, so I submitted this image below. Not technically perfect but I liked it, figured it might be something good to hear what people say about it. Not expecting to win because I don't have that yellow band there and the picture didn't really work as a thumbnail.

 

[btgc]

KR is making his living from merchandising, and this contest is one way to attract customers to Adorama. What did you want, really?

 

[merciless49]

KR is making his living from merchandising, and this contest is one way to attract customers to Adorama. What did you want, really?

good point, i started thinking in that direction after reading this thread...

 

[eyesglassy]

Those picture's remind me of old photography magazines. Pretty cool.

 

[shadowfox]

I'm fascinated by his philosphy of an image needing to work as a thumbnail before it warrants any real attention or scrutiny. What a negative approach to art in any form!

Let's shrink the Mona Lisa down to a postage stamp size, whack it on a computer monitor and see how good it looks ... sorry Leonardo, it doesn't make the grade! 🙄

That's the philosophy of judges who have to go through 10,000 images.

I don't necessarily disagree.
Small sizes hides a lot of technical imperfections and allows you to focus quickly at the colors or composition.

 

[lucasjld]

That "Wild Fawn" picture... Jeez. How can that be in a contest?

 

[Guaranteed]

I've always thought of him as a tool. He trashes the R-D1 for what it is and then can't stop praising the M9.

I guess if there's no chance of getting anything out of Epson he has nothing to gain. Act like a shill for Leica and maybe he can get his mitts on an M10 to review and bring in more traffic to his site.

 

[jbot]

I don't understand how a photograph of someone else's work (taking a picture of a painting) can be considered a winning shot. The yellow band is strong, in the original painting, but the photographer hasn't created this composition.

I should his next contest with a photograph of Bresson's work.

 

[baisao]

"It's hard to go wrong with a Corgi wrapped in a towel." Bwahahaha!!!!