Thoughts on this photo?

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Excuse the quality, its only a phone pic off screen. It's not really relevant.
Many will recoginse it. It's a splash screen from Win10.

Do you think the rucksack in the foreground ads or detracts? Do you think it was deliberate or just overlooked.
I wonder every time I see it.
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Detracts and I do not think it is meant to be there, little bit of cropping in order I think, if I was a Windows person. Something annoying left of centre!:exit:;)
 
I thought overlooked. How could Microsoft miss it?
 
Baloo said:
Detracts and I do not think it is meant to be there, little bit of cropping in order I think, if I was a Windows person. Something annoying left of centre!:exit:;)
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I see what you did there. :D
 
IIRC there used to be someone in a red jacket in lots of NG photos.

As for the shot in question, I would guess it wasn't overlooked - hard to not see it! Doesn't add much IMO but I don't spend much time looking at sign in screens!
 
I suspect it was left deliberately to bring a human touch and presence to an otherwise 'coldly perfect ' landscape.
 
Nod said:
IIRC there used to be someone in a red jacket in lots of NG photos.

As for the shot in question, I would guess it wasn't overlooked - hard to not see it! Doesn't add much IMO but I don't spend much time looking at sign in screens!
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You do when you fix peoples PC's . :D
 
I wouldn't have noticed it, but now I've seen it I can't unsee it. Careless editing in my opinion, they probably spent ages adjusting the photo in Lightroom or the likes, only to forget to edit out the bag
 
What do I think?

That we should be following the forum traditional policy of not critiquing someone's work if they aren't present to defend themsleves.

ie: don't post other people's work for crit.
 
DemiLion said:
What do I think?

That we should be following the forum traditional policy of not critiquing someone's work if they aren't present to defend themsleves.

ie: don't post other people's work for crit.
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Jesus wept.
 
DemiLion said:
Why? It's been forum policy for well over twelve years.
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The discussion was not so much about the merits of the photo. More whether Microsoft missed the rucksack or found some artistic merit for leaving it in.

@Cobra , if you see this as an issue please delete the thread.
 
Cockney said:
The discussion was not so much about the merits of the photo. More whether Microsoft missed the rucksack or found some artistic merit for leaving it in.

@Cobra , if you see this as an issue please delete the thread.
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Yup, I got that. :)
 
Cockney said:
@Cobra , if you see this as an issue please delete the thread.
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The photographer is not named, and it's viewable by millions.
We have no idea who took it.
Possibly someone working for MS, I'm sure they are crying all the way to the bank.

Steelo said:
I use my own photos :ROFLMAO:
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Same here.
 
Steelo said:
Tbf I'm waiting on someone to prove me wrong...but I know I don't as I use my own photos :ROFLMAO:
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You've not got a red rucksack by any chance? :ROFLMAO:
 
What parameters are we using to judge the photo? Perhaps whoever from Microsoft selected it liked the rucksack for whatever reason, maybe it tells a story. I suspect the photographer just uploaded it to a stock site or sent directly to MS, I bet they were happy their photo was selected.. and hopefully richer if sold via stock, but I doubt it
 
Cockney said:
But you thought you'd moan anyway.
I will let the mods decide.
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I wasn't moaning. I was pointing out a long term forum unofficial policy.

It looks as though that has now changed.
 
DemiLion said:
I wasn't moaning. I was pointing out a long term forum unofficial policy.

It looks as though that has now changed.
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No probs. Sorry, didn’t mean to come across arsey.
 
DemiLion said:
I wasn't moaning. I was pointing out a long term forum unofficial policy.

It looks as though that has now changed.
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it's not changed, it's an anonymous image.
Had it been attributed personally, to someone not on here, it would have been removed
 
Cobra said:
it's not changed, it's an anonymous image.
Had it been attributed personally, to someone not on here, it would have been removed
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It isn't anonymous though. Hover (or press) the details button on the top right of the screen and the description and copyright details will appear.
 
I think it should be there. It shows a sense of scale of how large the waterbody is.
 
DemiLion said:
It isn't anonymous though. Hover (or press) the details button on the top right of the screen and the description and copyright details will appear.
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It's not a image that is private or restricted to a private group of individuals though. It's publicly viewable by a huge number of people and discussing it is a bit like discussing something that has been on TV or in the newpapers.
 
Dryce said:
It's not a image that is private or restricted to a private group of individuals though. It's publicly viewable by a huge number of people and discussing it is a bit like discussing something that has been on TV or in the newpapers.
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You mean just like official portraits of the monarch? Discussions about those have been banned in the past.

As I suggested, you either have rules or you don't. You can't pick and choose as to when they apply
 
DemiLion said:
You mean just like official portraits of the monarch? Discussions about those have been banned in the past.
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I have no idea on those, would you like to point out the reference?
 
Several threads have been shut down over the years. One about Testino comes to mind but I think that the threads were deleted.
 
DemiLion said:
Several threads have been shut down over the years. One about Testino comes to mind but I think that the threads were deleted.
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As I thought.
No evidence, no reference.
However, a quick search, There are a few threads / posts referencing Testino going back 15 years, none have been deleted, or locked.
It should have occurred to you by now, that da management have discussed this thread.

DemiLion said:
You can't pick and choose as to when they apply
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Actually, yes we can.
Each compliant is taken / discussed individually.
Now do everyone a favour and drop it.
Thanks
 
Cobra said:
As I thought.
No evidence, no reference.
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That's a little brutal Chris.
I was just pointing out what I'd always understood the forum rules/convention to be.

As for dropping it - I had done, until someone quoted me again.
 
Writing in a non-Admin capacity, my view is that it's in the public domain and therefore open to people taking a view on it.
As an Admin, as it's in the public domain, and the OP took an obvious screenshot and didn't copy the image, he's using it to gain a view about composition, not imho overtly inviting critique of the image itself. As to Mark's point, rules are open to interpretation and thus evolve over time as cases crop up. All reports are discussed by Mods and sometimes Admins too.
So let's get back to the original point of the thread please.
 
lindsay said:
So let's get back to the original point of the thread please.
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Happily.
As an aside, copyright wouldn't come in to play because this thread would clearly fall under the exemption for critique, as it's the image itself that is being commented on (rather than the subject).
Having done a quick couple of searches, there are some clear posts that were allowed to continue discussing other photographers' work in the past, so I'm obviously wrong
although I still have lurking memories of it being discouraged.
 
DemiLion said:
That's a little brutal Chris.
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I just get fed up with people telling us what the rules are, how to run the forum to their liking, what should be included or removed.
You are not alone in this, and they get the same type of response.
DemiLion said:
Having done a quick couple of searches, there are some clear posts that were allowed to continue discussing other photographers' work in the past, so I'm obviously wrong
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Absolutely

DemiLion said:
although I still have lurking memories of it being discouraged.
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If the photographer is "known" they are and have been contacted, with "a right to reply" message.
Anyway, so now you know, It's discussed by all staff case by case.
 
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