Take a View-Landscape photos of the year -

keps

From the Telegraph


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/9640813/Landscape-Photographer-of-the-Year-Awards-2012.html?frame=2381849

sprinkles

Some great shots. Love the shepard!

DaireQuinlan

There's an interesting controversy about the winner.

http://www.alexnail.com/blog/news-updates/lpoty-2012/

He says, accompanying the picture on his site, that "We went to Holy Island for the night, to visit the famous boat houses and castle of Lindisfarne. I’ve been waiting for a year to do this after seeing Peter Clarke’s great version of it. I hope I’ve done it justice."

If you see Peter Clarke's 'version' of it (both are linked in the blog post above) it's pretty clear that david byrne's is, to be diplomatic, quite 'derivative' of Peter Clarke's. All well and good in and of itself, but I don't think the behaviour should be rewarded with 1st prize in a major competition ...

keps

More like a rip-off :eek:

EDIT- just noticed a this in the last line of the blog

EDIT: The Sunday Times did not publish the winning image in the awards section of the magazine. I do not know why.

hahahaah

amdgilmore

Not a big fan of landscapes, but it's interesting to see that many of the winners have pretty muted, low-key post-processing. That's not what springs to mind when I think of landscape photography (usually crazy over-saturation and impossible skies).

Only two, maybe three, HDRs in there that I can identify.

sprinkles

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

There's an interesting controversy about the winner.

http://www.alexnail.com/blog/news-updates/lpoty-2012/

He says, accompanying the picture on his site, that "We went to Holy Island for the night, to visit the famous boat houses and castle of Lindisfarne. I’ve been waiting for a year to do this after seeing Peter Clarke’s great version of it. I hope I’ve done it justice."

If you see Peter Clarke's 'version' of it (both are linked in the blog post above) it's pretty clear that david byrne's is, to be diplomatic, quite 'derivative' of Peter Clarke's. All well and good in and of itself, but I don't think the behaviour should be rewarded with 1st prize in a major competition ...

Wow, the world of Photography Competitions gets all CSI (see his blog about 2011). Interesting topic though. Should blatant copies be allowed enter competitions, especially ones as blatant as that?

magicbastarder

amdgilmore wrote: »

Not a big fan of landscapes, but it's interesting to see that many of the winners have pretty muted, low-key post-processing. That's not what springs to mind when I think of landscape photography (usually crazy over-saturation and impossible skies).

you're not looking at the right landscape photography.
i haven't read any photo magazines in years, but when i did read them, they were all about deepening your blues, bumping up contrast, etc.; which led to a very repetitive sort of landscape photography.
landscape photography does not have to be about god rays or azure blue skies.

magicbastarder

actually, that post reads a little patronising. was not intended as such.

IamBlip

I would never have called no. 2 a landscape either.

ronanc15

IamBlip wrote: »

I would never have called no. 2 a landscape either.

Definitely not.

DaireQuinlan

IamBlip wrote: »

I would never have called no. 2 a landscape either.

ronanc15 wrote: »

Definitely not.

there are different categories.

ronanc15

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

there are different categories.

Ah right, I just assumed it was one Landscape category

poundhound

Winner has since been disqualified for the amount of modifications used.

keps

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9652485/Photography-competition-winner-disqualified-for-too-much-Photoshopping.html

seems like they scrambled for any excuse

DaireQuinlan

keps wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9652485/Photography-competition-winner-disqualified-for-too-much-Photoshopping.html

seems like they scrambled for any excuse

I think they were right to disqualify him once this came to light. It's just a breach of the rules for the category. From reading the blog post about it he effectively shopped in a different sky, and cloned out bits of the background as well. The other 'shot' he had disqualified had several significant elements moved. Some of the categories allow significant alterations, some don't, he simply broke the rules.
Chances are of course this wouldn't have come to light if it weren't for the original controversy, I think people were gunning for him to some extent, but once the alterations came to light I think the decision to disqualify him was a justified one.

keps

detective work

http://www.timparkin.co.uk/2012/10/landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2/

Ghost Train

Bit of a mess, but good to see the right outcome, interesting reading the blogs and seeing how the story developed

sprinkles

A real mess! Listening to David argue that the image of Natures Struggle wasn't a compsite despite people posting pictures trying to copy it is v entertaining.