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Originally Posted by rat156
...I have always wondered why my images don't get a look in at the Malin's. So much so that I've given up entering.
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Please don't give up on entering Stuart. Diversity of processing techniques really enhances the competition. You don't have to lose all the faint data into the blackness of the background. Areas that are really well illuminated are in fact that way but all areas beyond that gradually lose illumination. That means you can still have faint detail showing.
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Originally Posted by rat156
.......none of us can actually "see" the image we create).
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Generally true, but a very large scope shows colour and bright detail. Though I take your meaning well. Who actually knows what these things really look like. A bit of artistic license is what is involved here and I don't think David will reject that.
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Originally Posted by rat156
This is not "sour grapes" as Paul suggested, I congratulate everyone who seems to be able to please David and win a prize.
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That never crossed my mind Stuart. You have a legitimate comment. I was in the same boat as I could not work out what he was thinking or what made his criteria. After some consideration my rational was to tell David I wanted to win the competition and then ask him how I go about doing that. His answers completely changed my outlook on my approach to processing. Whilst I still don't agree entirely with some of his choices, I now understand his reasoning. I have adopted some of his thinking and it has worked for my images in my opinion. I generally like the images I produce now and my talk with David only enhanced my being able to produce these images.
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Originally Posted by rat156
My metrics for satisfaction are different to those that strive for recognition, I do it for the intrinsic enjoyment and underlying science behind each image. To ridicule anyone for striving for conformity, if that's what they want/like is equally ridiculous as ridiculing someone for processing their image the way they like it (which the above statements and even the underlying tone of "respecting the light" do).
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Agree about whatever drives you produce images. Your reason is your reason. I think if you put an image up on this site though, you are agreeing to the idea for people to give you an opinion about your image in your thread (not in someone else's). If they agree or disagree with the image itself, that is fair and reasonable. I don't personally see comments about respecting the light as being ridicule.