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<blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 2441" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>Browncoat, I appreciate your opinion. We need more responses from community members as to how they think these photo contests should be set up. Obviously, you and I are at opposite ends but that's OK. If that's what the community wants, then it won't be the first time I find myself in the minority. As for Ansel Adams, I learned photography using a B&W 120 roll film, Kodak box camera when he was still working in Yosemite National Park. I had five of his books explaining his process from composition to the final print. I considered them to be the bible of photography. And yet for all of his dodge and burn techniques he never produced anything that was not obviously a photograph taken with a camera. And that is the issue I have with extensive PhotoShopping of a photograph. I'm not diminishing the value of that kind work at all. Some of the work done by people that really know how to use PhotoShop is fantastic. However, IMHO, that kind of work can be more graphic art than photograph and belongs in a different class. </p><p></p><p>My thoughts on the different categories. There is really no way to judge what contest submission is photograph and what should be graphic art. There can be a very fine line between the two. That judgement would be nearly impossible. And who would make that judgement anyway. What I would suggest is an "Open" category. That would include any photo taken with any Nikon camera with or without processing or PhotoShopping. The other two categories I would suggest is for Point-and-Shoot and DSLR with limited post processing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joseph Bautsch, post: 2441, member: 654"] Browncoat, I appreciate your opinion. We need more responses from community members as to how they think these photo contests should be set up. Obviously, you and I are at opposite ends but that's OK. If that's what the community wants, then it won't be the first time I find myself in the minority. As for Ansel Adams, I learned photography using a B&W 120 roll film, Kodak box camera when he was still working in Yosemite National Park. I had five of his books explaining his process from composition to the final print. I considered them to be the bible of photography. And yet for all of his dodge and burn techniques he never produced anything that was not obviously a photograph taken with a camera. And that is the issue I have with extensive PhotoShopping of a photograph. I'm not diminishing the value of that kind work at all. Some of the work done by people that really know how to use PhotoShop is fantastic. However, IMHO, that kind of work can be more graphic art than photograph and belongs in a different class. My thoughts on the different categories. There is really no way to judge what contest submission is photograph and what should be graphic art. There can be a very fine line between the two. That judgement would be nearly impossible. And who would make that judgement anyway. What I would suggest is an "Open" category. That would include any photo taken with any Nikon camera with or without processing or PhotoShopping. The other two categories I would suggest is for Point-and-Shoot and DSLR with limited post processing. [/QUOTE]
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