2009/3/11 Christian <[email protected]>: > > > Bob W wrote: >> >> Bullshit. > > I'm a nature photographer. I love beauty in nature. I go down to the local > dump and find a nasty garbage-infested, oil-stained, mercury-laden pond and > see.. I don't know, a Great Egret wading amongst some reeds with the sun > setting just-so, side-lighting the bird's resplendent white-plumage, > enhancing every feather detail in glorious mating display. I trip the > shutter, making sure to not include the cans floating in the oil-slick and > dead, rotting fish to the left of the bird. The picture wins a national > competition promoted by the Sierra Club dedicated to protecting our wild > lands. > > Is this an honest photograph worthy of winning such a competition? Have I > manipulated the viewer?
If the photograph is so well cooked that it fools the jury, then of course it is worthy. Not so with the photographer. It takes a human to produce a lie like that. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- 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.
