Best of Show in Nogal, New Mexico

Panorama Point Rainbow

Panorama Point Rainbow

I am happy to say this photo just won Best of Show at the Dry Gulch Gallery photo contest in Nogal, NM.  I won $1,000 for this first place prize. Yipeee!  This photo was not totally just luck.  The off and on rains of the day made this a high probability spot.  I also hiked up a bit specifically to include the curvy dirt road in the photo.

Harold Hall, Grand Prize Winner New Mexico Magazine

Red-NM-Mag--2013-01-19-at-6.21I am very happy to announce that I won the 2013 New Mexico Magazine annual Photography Contest. This is something I have worked to win for the past several years. Here is a link to the article which appeared in the February issue. I sent the magazine two photos of me for this layout, one with a hat and one without. I guess they thought the hat was more western and a better fit.

http://www.nmmagazine.com/article/?aid=79167#.UTtRPxntA8g

Photo Manipulation – Photojournalism vs. Fine Art Landscape Photography

Altered Kent State Photo

Altered Kent State Photo

Original Kent State Photo

Original Kent State Photo

(Second in a series of six articles on photo manipulation)

When looking at beautiful photographic prints created today, the question of manipulation often comes up.  Many consumers have a preconceived notion that manipulating a photo is unacceptable and have the mistaken belief that the best photographers do not manipulate their photos.  That hard and fast rule of never manipulating a photo applies only to documentary photography.  The reputation of magazines, newspapers and the photojournalist can be forever tarnished when they manipulate their photos.  An example of this was the 1970 Pulitzer Prize winning photo by John Filo which shows a student, Mary Ann Vecchio, kneeling over the body of a fellow student Jeffrey Miller shot in the Kent State University riot. Study the photos, can you see what was altered or manipulated?

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