I was thinking something along those lines myself, Igor.
If we are joshing about over saturation - it is a fine example.
Obviously it is not a documentary photo. But I don't think we should
hold ourselves to journalistic standards. Landscape photographers are
not street photographers.
The more I look at it I think it is a successful picture of what the
taker wanted to see. It is also something I might want on my wall. So
yes as Frank said it may be art even fine art.
Message: 11
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 00:38:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Roshchin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Time for eye protection
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I am sure many PDMLers would disagree with me. I might disagree myself.
But I would like to suggest that one should look at this image differently:
It is not a documentary/landscape photo. It is a different genre.
It is probably not even just a photo (as a genre).
Quite often you can see some paintings in a similar "HDR"-like style.
A good examples is the paintings of La Boca, the neighborhood of
Buenos Aires where Tango started.
People create images (based on photos) of that area in a similar style,
see, e.g. here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buenos_Aires_-_La_Boca_-_Caminito_-_200807i.jpg
and here:
http://goo.gl/ZhZVe
The interesting thing to me is that almost nobody who responded on this
thread has actually said what was wrong with the image in question.
I guess the assumption is just because it is not natural. It is a
philosophical question is whether the art has to be realistic.
It reminds me how people had criticized the new, non-orthodox styles
in fine arts (e.g. impressionists, abstractionists, etc.).
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