This is almost certain to ruffle a few feathers but it is not intended to be so.
Last night the club to which I belong held its first competition of the season. The slide section went as it normaly does - without any controversy. However the prints, most of which were inkjet whilst bright, breezy and 'proper', but were in the main overcooked, and the judge said so, (but in the nicest possible way). It seems because it is infinitely possible to alter the colours in whatever computer programme one happens to use, it is done, and almost always goes over the top. It not as if the subjects were 'off beat' or 'unconventional', they were given the wrong unsuitable treatment. As it happens the one that won was also a inkjet, but was a monochrome high key portrait which had been handled in a very sympathetic way and would rival any 'conventional' print. The inkjet users commumnity would get a far more sympathetic hearing from the conventional photographers if they held in check the impulse to go after lurid yellows, blues, greens and reds, and be a little more, shall we say discrete. Some it seemed a little like Velvia that had been force fed steroids!
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