Re: Computers in competition

[P3D Marvin Jones <72657.3276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Quick question: do these competitions have different categories for photos
> >employing any of the following:
> > - color filters > - polarizing filters > - special effects filters
> > - special processing > - multiple exposures > - tilt/shift lenses  
> > - artificial lighting > - ?  > John R
> 
> Good point!  My first response was to say that it is not the same, but
> after second thought I realize that it is very much the same.  I have been
> using slide copying to alter the color balance, crop, enlarge or even copy
> slides to a different base.  Very similar to using the computer for that. 

I don't know that it is the same. The main point of the SCSC board meeting
discussion was whether one started with a "real world" image or a totally
computer-manufactured image, the idea being that when a Tony Alderson or a Dan
Gilvezan or a Lincoln Kamm enters a computer-generated image its startling
"foreign-ness" gives it an unfair advantage over a more "everyday" subject. A
new category might help level the field, so a spectacular and ethereal image
like one Alderson recently entered of dolphins leaping through galactic waves in
outer space, produced with tens of thousands of dollars worth of computing power
(which swept the competition under the rug in our last meeting) won't have to be
compared with charming little shots of children in a fountain taken with a $150
dollar Realist. For the record, SCSC's competitions are categorized primarily by
format (Realist, non-standard "Realist" format, and 2x2) with sub-categories for
newcomers and veterans, all designed to help in comparing apples with apples and
oranges with oranges.


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