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usonian

(14,660 posts)
Sat Nov 4, 2023, 07:15 PM Nov 2023

Picture That Won 'World's Largest Photo Competition' Was Staged (petapixel)

https://petapixel.com/2023/10/25/picture-that-won-worlds-largest-photo-competition-was-staged/

It was shot in a workshop, the set created to show off a new camera.



The theme of the competition was “Our world is beautiful” and Ariani’s winning photo purported to show the owner of a traditional Indonesian cafe, known as a Warung Kopi, enthusiastically playing cards

“The proprietress, the sole woman in the scene, welcomes the men from the village after a hard day’s work in the rice fields,” CEWE writes of the photo in a press release.


Hardly candid, as the photo seems to be.



There’s a related article at Petapixel.
https://petapixel.com/2023/10/28/the-baffling-allure-of-staged-photos-in-photography-competitions/
The Baffling Allure of Staged Photos in Photography Competitions

This article advises against staging your travel photos.

One comment I read was to the effect “At least, it’s not A.I. … just the A”.

NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
And “uplifting”.
15 Incredible Photos from 2023 Milky Way Photographer of the Year Competition.
https://petapixel.com/2023/05/30/15-incredible-photos-from-2023-milky-way-photographer-of-the-year/

None of which were staged (I think).
Anyway, they are pretty spectacular.

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Picture That Won 'World's Largest Photo Competition' Was Staged (petapixel) (Original Post) usonian Nov 2023 OP
The Ethics of Wildlife Photography (and some stunning violations) Goonch Nov 2023 #1
Not staged? --- shows what you know. 3Hotdogs Nov 2023 #2
I qualified the remark! Been so busy. usonian Nov 2023 #3
. 3Hotdogs Nov 2023 #4

Goonch

(3,830 posts)
1. The Ethics of Wildlife Photography (and some stunning violations)
Sat Nov 4, 2023, 07:47 PM
Nov 2023


Breaches of this sacred trust, between photographer and audiences, happen all the time though, even amongst professionals. Photographer Jose Luis Rodriguez was stripped of his Natural History Museum Photographer of the Year Award (£10,000) for passing off a likely tame wolf as a wild one.


He claimed to have spent months in the wild patiently tracking the very rare Iberian wolf before being able to capture an image of one leaping over a fence. The judges of the competition later said they were convinced that Rodriguez had hired a tame Iberian wolf called Ossian from the Madrid Wildlife Park, and then stripped him of his award.
https://backcountryjourneys.com/the-ethics-of-wildlife-photography-and-some-stunning-violations

3Hotdogs

(13,579 posts)
2. Not staged? --- shows what you know.
Sat Nov 4, 2023, 07:52 PM
Nov 2023

Try it. You move Proxima Centauri b, 2 miles to the right. Rigel b gets dropped down 80 miles south.

What'da got? Ya got a winning Milky Way photo to fool the experts who don't have the tine to find out that the photo was manipulated.

Try it for yourself. But don't use my astro-set. Make up your own.

usonian

(14,660 posts)
3. I qualified the remark! Been so busy.
Sat Nov 4, 2023, 08:45 PM
Nov 2023

Spare you the details.

I’ll have to let this guy take care of it for now.

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