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Old 22-07-2015, 02:30 PM
jase (Jason)
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward View Post
I've talked with David many times over the years and am continually amazed by his quantitative knowledge of a multitude of celestial objects and their intrinsic structure & colours....e.g. getting a little colour bias here or there is not fatal to an entry, but processing an object to look blue, when it is really red, or making it look dark when it's bright or bright neon when it should be a pastel will see an entry culled fairly quickly.

I suspect mother nature's vistas, when skillfully captured, are both beautiful and surprising enough without any need to tart-up an image like the covergirl of some glossy magazine.

Some don't like this pragmatic approach.
Rather insightful (and subjective) Peter. Are you on the judging panel? A post back in 2011, you mention that in future David will be calling for input from others. You would make a prime candidate.
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