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Unfortunately, this happens and has happened for
years. I used to shoot photographs to illustrate stories in outdoor
magazines here in the US and I remember seeing a photo published in one
of the major mags about pheasant hunting. Someone forgot to crop a
lead photo and you can clearly see in the lower left corner the figure
of someone who has just released a pheasant so it could fly across in
front of the hunters for the picture. I was incensed as were others
because we worked hard to get these photos naturally. I do think the rules may be a little ambiguous in this case. One could interpret "models" in different ways. Perhaps if they had barred staged photos it might have been more clear. Don On 1/21/10 12:25 PM, Alberto Tirado wrote: Forum too quiet. I hope *not* to open a can of worms, but I found this news interesting: Photographer José Luis Rodríguez won the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, but then the jury, after some investigations, ruled that the animal depicted was tamed/trained and thus the photo ineligible for the competition http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/21/wildlife.photographer.disqualified/index.html The disqualification also means a permanent ban for the photographer. Some are (I am!) very passionate about the subject of ""reality" in photography, but lets just keep this about the rules of the contest. ********************** www.alberto-tirado.com |
