Another ridiculous "contest"

Aside from his choice of winner ... a lot of over saturated HDR look images in that selection.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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! :rolleyes:
 
Keith said:
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! :rolleyes:
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That's a very good point Keith.
 
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.

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