How did they ever pick a winner? Landscape winners ... every single one. https://www.boredpanda.com/international-landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2019/...

lesdmd Loc: Middleton Wi via N.Y.C. & Cleveland

Landscape winners ... every single one.

https://www.boredpanda.com/international-landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2019/

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

These are all beautiful photos--I’m envious!

That said, to me, having been there, the first photo is far too red to be an accurate image. It’s excellent, though.

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

lesdmd wrote:

Landscape winners ... every single one.

https://www.boredpanda.com/international-landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2019/

Lovely and unusual.

StevenG Loc: Long Island, NY

lesdmd wrote:

Landscape winners ... every single one.

https://www.boredpanda.com/international-landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2019/

All beautiful!

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

All were excellent, thanks for sharing.

GeorgeFenwick

These are all pleasing to view. In most cases, the true art seems to have come after the image was recorded in post-production. For my taste only, the point of post-production is to draw as close as possible to the emotion you feel from what you see in nature. So, while this is excellent art, it seems to me to be more art from the computer than from the camera. The images appear to me as though they could be used in fantasy stories as opposed to life as we normally perceive it. That’s fine, especially for those who enjoy this style, but it is a form in which the real world is secondary to computer art.

GeorgeFenwick

These are all pleasing to view. In most cases, the true art seems to have come after the image was recorded in post-production. For my taste only, the point of post-production is to draw as close as possible to the emotion you feel from what you see in nature. So, while this is excellent art, it seems to me to be more art from the computer than from the camera. The images appear to me as though they could be used in fantasy stories as opposed to life as we normally perceive it. That’s fine, especially for those who enjoy this style, but it is a form in which the real world is secondary to computer art.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

The Power of Photoshop!

MrMophoto Loc: Rhode Island "The biggest little"

Yes, there are some places on earth where it is hard NOT to take an amazing photo. ( I once spent a week with a fellow photographer traveling and photographing around the kenai peninsula in Alaska, by the end of the week it was "I don't really want to stop to shoot that, it's just another spectacular vista") With that in mind it also takes a thorough understanding of the equipment you are using as well as composition in the final image. I tell my photo students that a dramatic composition will set your photo a part from all the other spectacular images. Also nobody cares or judges what your image looks like sooc (straight out of camera), what people will care about is what you put out as the final image, post production is part of the process.

donrent Loc: Punta Gorda , Fl

Whomever the Judges were, they must have been in a dark,moody frame of mine. I did not like probably half of them because of that.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

lesdmd wrote:

Landscape winners ... every single one.

https://www.boredpanda.com/international-landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2019/

Very good question!

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

All are winners!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Amazing pictures. Picking a winner - or winners - is completely subjective, which is why many people don't like photo contests.

duffy021049 Loc: Colorado

Fotoartist wrote:

The Power of Photoshop!

MrMophoto Loc: Rhode Island "The biggest little"

jerryc41 wrote:

Amazing pictures. Picking a winner - or winners - is completely subjective, which is why many people don't like photo contests.

Like it or not, Art, or more accurately the quality of an piece of art, is and will always be subjective. That's one of the great things about it - there is no precise definition and what is considered great art is always changing. It is much like music, styles change, public tastes change and occasionally you get a great song that endures and becomes a classic, ex. "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lang. "Cypress at point Lobos" by Ansel Adams. Classic enduring images, IMHO Adams was an amazing technicion who had a good understanding of composition. He was given a opportunity to record some of the most amazing landscapes in this country, was he a amazing artist, No, he did more documenting than art. Edward Weston was a artist and his series of fruits and vegetables are also considered icon and classic photography and amazing art.