Comments on: Why Do Photo Contest Winners Look Like Movie Posters?

By: Martin Vargas

Martin Vargas — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:00 +0000

The An Najaf, Iraq image (the last one) is so powerful and yet so simple.
It brought tears to my eyes and made me imagine what would happen to the child? To its father? Why is the child there? To have him so close yet to be unable to kiss him is just too much. Powerful and simple.
The first one, although striking and powerful, seems like a film frame from a movie. So one tends to brush it off – I certainly did.

By: Eric Seaholm

Eric Seaholm — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:42:10 +0000

Feeling vindicated about now, eh;)

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 14 May 2013 06:33:05 +0000

IMHO the Hansen photo from Gaza clearly oversteps the mark for the simple reason that the photoshopper has INVENTED light that was not there. The light source (the sun) was clearly high right and behind the subjects as we view them…. yet dodging and burning has created an artificial sense of light onto the shadow side of the faces such that this becomes the dominant source and completely changes the complexion and feel of the image. Just look how the shadows on the wall are on the same side as the brightest sides of each face!!

Had he just lightened the subjects and done the usual dodging and burning there would have been none of the painfully evident sense of artificiality. Its a great image (though heavily staged) but the photoshopping kills it. Our brains sense it before our eyes do.

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By: Franco

Franco — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:58:57 +0000

Seriously people? None of these images are edited to the point of being ridiculous! Granted there are some out there which are, and that crosses the line into the realm of digital illustration (extreme HDR etc). These however, are not. Do you think for one second that the music you listen to is not tweaked, refined, and mastered? Do you think the movies you watch are not color balanced, graded and sharpened? “I’m in the business of making photographs”, Nicolle Clemetson? Please. Do you think when you shoot wide open at 1.2 that you’re not “altering reality”? No one views the world the a 1.2 lens, so guess what, you lose. Or when you use all of your off camera flashes that you seem to love, it’s no different when someone brushes in light in lightroom or PS. Technology and the world of photography are changing. Try to keep up now…

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Photography rant… and photos from Fair Island « BOJAN'S BLOG — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:26:31 +0000

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By: Gordon

Gordon — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:19:58 +0000

This is EXACTLY why I shoot film. It makes me think, it challenges me, my photograps are captured light.