----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > I call your attention to the "Digital Manipulation" categories. Taken >> > literally, it seems impossible to shoot digital without ending up in >> > the "Digital Manipulation" categories, especially if you shoot raw. >> > For example: >> > >> > "26. Single or Multiple Images - The creation of an improved image >> > through the use of computer tools" >> > >> > Well, debayering a raw file certainly improves it. So does using >> > "computer tools" to choose a suitable 8x10 cropping, as required by >> > the rules. I've even been known to improve an image by picking black >> > and white points with my "computer tools". But even worse: >> > >> > "28. Tonal/Colorization - Black & White, Sepia, or Color saturation >> > of a digital photograph to increase visual dynamics to the viewer." >> > >> > I take this to mean that any digital B&W conversion lands you in the >> > "Digital Manipulation" ghetto, instead of, say, "B&W Portrait". I believe you're taking it wrongly. It looks like there are ADDITIONAL categories for obviously manipulated digital images. You can enter your mundane prints in any of the categories either B&W or Color (or all of them if you have enough prints and money) ... and you still have 5 categories for your exotic PhotoShop work. If anyone has a complaint, it's film photographers, whose work is excluded from those categories because they create manipulated images the way they've been done since the days of Wm. H. Fox Talbot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
