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Savageduck says...
The answer to that is not simple. There is no indication of how the images
were processed other than their appearance, and your unconfirmed assumptions.
As to why each won a particular category was up to the judges, each with
their particular tastes, and biases. In any photography contest there is no
way to guarantee that the taste, and biases of the judges will match yours.
Actually I'm just wondering, if the photographer submits the out of
camera JPEG instead of that heavily processed RAW, does he still win the
contest?
Of course there is no way to know what processing was applied, but out
of the winning images only a few look like they came straight out of a
camera.
Some have been "artificially aged", such as for instance the photo of
the boy with the gun.
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Alfred Molon
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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site