frank theriault wrote: >On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I recall reading a lot of discussion about it a few months ago. >> perhaps not on PDML, but somewhere. >> >> It really just goes to show how difficult real photojournalism is. >> These students who faked their entry were able to set up scenes, pose >> the subjects, choose time of day, weather, etc. for all their photos. >> Honest entrants had to deal with the messy, uncooperative nature of >> the real world. With such advantages, it isn't surprising that the >> students who were willing to cheat won the contest. > >There were some good photos in there, staged or not. Obviously the >fact that they were staged makes them "art photos" and not PJ or >reportage.
Well, the fact that they were staged and good is the point: They couldn't create photos that good if they didn't stage them. As for previous winners being "uninspiring", you have to take into account that the judges can only pick winners from among those who've entered - and sometimes the entries just aren't that good. Many times Doug and I have been judging the GFM photo contest and found nothing particularly worthy in one category. But we still have to pick a winner! I think the "protest" claim is BS: If they'd really wanted to protest they'd have entered honestly and out-done the other entrants. By resorting to cheating they demonstrated the opposite of what they claimed. They demonstrated that the other entrants were too good to beat *without* cheating! -- 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.
