Right, I'm now in a simmer down, and will try not to get over excited.
I'm not chuffed at being singled out as trying to force my opinion across, because that's what most people are doing. But the fact is that when you look through your viewfinder, you aren't taking the picture 'you see' because cameras are a way off the performance of our eyes. Imagine if every overcast day you went out, everything you looked at was surrounded by a searing white over-exposed sky? Now that would be a headache. I am trying to use techniques to make the finished image closer to what my eye saw. If you look back to the earlier unprocessed version of my Class 20 shot, my eye saw it as nothing like that at all, the finished image is closer to it.
I agree that object removal should not be allowed in the competition, but it's not fair to blame other people taking their time over a shot for your own unprocessed image not doing well. If that was the case we'd have to run a seperate competition for compact and SLR shots surely. It isn't really fair to try to exclude people just because of the effort or seriousness they put in to the photography.
Like Swiss Toni, I too have found myself trying to defend a winning image, in which I was criticised for following the basic principles behind framing and aesthetics of a railway photo. Basically, it was almost like 'Look, someone who's took an accepted style of photo has won again'. What else should I do? Creativity is the key to our hobby and art form, but without people trying different things and embracing new methods, it would stagnate in to a battle of the most expensive and best cameras. I like the fact that with the current format anyone can win POTW and long may it continue.
I'm disappointed Techniquest with your blanket exclusion of all steam that is non-GWR. It's like voting for purely DB Schenker or Virgin West Coast images only, it appears to be only because of who built it and ran it, a bit narrow minded. It seems you also intimate that people who have made a success out of photography should not be permitted to enter as they normally win. Imagine that, Gary Kasparov excluded from chess competitions after getting good. David Beckham no longer allowed at the World Cup because of his talents (that are on the wane).
I shall finish as I feel, best of luck to everyone with the competitions as always, but I shall add that I will not dumb down my interpretation of the final image because of others opinions of it. As has been stated previously, if you don't like it don't vote for it.
I hope noone feels I have been directly aiming for them with this, except where stated but I'm defending my choices as we all do in daily life over all sorts of matters. I feel like I'm being called a cheat (tell me if I'm wrong)
I'm not chuffed at being singled out as trying to force my opinion across, because that's what most people are doing. But the fact is that when you look through your viewfinder, you aren't taking the picture 'you see' because cameras are a way off the performance of our eyes. Imagine if every overcast day you went out, everything you looked at was surrounded by a searing white over-exposed sky? Now that would be a headache. I am trying to use techniques to make the finished image closer to what my eye saw. If you look back to the earlier unprocessed version of my Class 20 shot, my eye saw it as nothing like that at all, the finished image is closer to it.
I agree that object removal should not be allowed in the competition, but it's not fair to blame other people taking their time over a shot for your own unprocessed image not doing well. If that was the case we'd have to run a seperate competition for compact and SLR shots surely. It isn't really fair to try to exclude people just because of the effort or seriousness they put in to the photography.
Like Swiss Toni, I too have found myself trying to defend a winning image, in which I was criticised for following the basic principles behind framing and aesthetics of a railway photo. Basically, it was almost like 'Look, someone who's took an accepted style of photo has won again'. What else should I do? Creativity is the key to our hobby and art form, but without people trying different things and embracing new methods, it would stagnate in to a battle of the most expensive and best cameras. I like the fact that with the current format anyone can win POTW and long may it continue.
I'm disappointed Techniquest with your blanket exclusion of all steam that is non-GWR. It's like voting for purely DB Schenker or Virgin West Coast images only, it appears to be only because of who built it and ran it, a bit narrow minded. It seems you also intimate that people who have made a success out of photography should not be permitted to enter as they normally win. Imagine that, Gary Kasparov excluded from chess competitions after getting good. David Beckham no longer allowed at the World Cup because of his talents (that are on the wane).
I shall finish as I feel, best of luck to everyone with the competitions as always, but I shall add that I will not dumb down my interpretation of the final image because of others opinions of it. As has been stated previously, if you don't like it don't vote for it.
I hope noone feels I have been directly aiming for them with this, except where stated but I'm defending my choices as we all do in daily life over all sorts of matters. I feel like I'm being called a cheat (tell me if I'm wrong)