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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by flee307 What's the point, it's geared to the professional photographer or computer graphics illastrator due to the magazine's judges constantly picking photo composition over model quality as winners? When they allowed and encouraged digital images that were manipulated that was the final nail. How can we be sure that the model portrayed in the pictures is a model, or even really exists in this universe? So I no longer waste my time, money, and postage to enter. I can't compete with professionals doing their craft. I don't begrude the professionals their skill, but let's not pretend that it's an open contest. The name should be "MR's Professional Photo and Computer Generated Image Contest". How about contests geared to modelers, like no backgrounds allowed? Model only? That's what the name of the magazine implies, it's MODEL Railroader, not Model Photography Gazette. Maybe it's time for a name change. FRED [/quote] I’m curious as to how you know winners in the contest are professional photographers? I don’t think I’ve ever read info on winners that indicated this information. I’ve had the good fortune in past MR contests to have won each level from First down to Honorable Mention, and I'm not a professional. I am an amateur photographer with many years of experience in many phases of photography, but I did not make my living from photography. I recently retired after 35 years as a federal civil servant here in Canada. With my experience in photography, good quality photo equipment, and my modeling abilities, I was able to translate my ideas into photos that I submitted in past contests. My hobby pursuits in the past while have resulted in fewer modeling projects, which led to fewer photos, and a lack of suitable entries for MR’s contests. But I’m still thinking about it! As to the name, it is a contest of model railroad subjects, not a model contest. High quality modeling and scene setting is a major requirement to win in the contest. A very nice model posed on a workbench or a table wouldn’t make much of a contest. How would such a photo be judged anyway? Bob Boudreau Canada
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