On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:36:30PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
To someone, the londonpictures thing is a hand-chosen set of great
photographs [...]
I don't want to go on arguing about this, but really this is
different.
I'm not being an "art ponce" and having some fine art debate about the
londonpictures set. Even I can see that there are massive technical
problems with them.
This one has obvious aliasing problems, as if it was resized without
using a decent scaling algorithm:
http://annexia.org/tmp/londonpictures/londonpictures_01.jpg
This one is a picture of a dog litter bin, with a camera flash and the
photographer's shadow clearly visible:
http://annexia.org/tmp/londonpictures/londonpictures_18.jpg
No one (sane) would choose these as great photographs.
So any argument around this particular set of photographs is going to
be based on a poor example. I think it would be better to frame this
in terms of good photographs. What if someone submitted a similar
package, but with photos like these:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palace_of_Westminster.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Eye,_London.JPG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tube_station_2_cz.jpg
(Not just an RSS feed but a hand-picked selection of the best city
photos from Wikicommons).
Rich.
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