12-03-2020, 11:55 AM
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Re: Photo Competition?
Originally Posted by Barry
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I am struggling to explain this in any simpler terms...I am setting up a snapshot competition primarily aimed at people, like myself, who enjoy taking a photo but have neither the desire nor the wherewithal to post edit their snaps.
As I am setting up the competition then I have decided the format for the competition which is open to all members of the forum to enter, as long as they are content with the rules and parameters that are laid down for it.
However, if you neither like nor agree with those parameters then do not enter, and why not set up your own competition using your own preferred rules and parameters, rather than complain about this one?
This editing business is not some sort of dark art and hardly takes any more knowledge than getting a photo from the camera to a forum. Such a kerfuffle over a minor point.
12-03-2020, 12:17 PM
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Re: Photo Competition?
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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I don't think anyone is singling you out Mart. Personally, I think a little brightness adjustment is ok (I have to do that to all my pics tbh) and some cropping of course; I think it's when people start deleting objects adding colour filters and sharpening to oblivion that it becomes a bit fake (for this purpose). 
I agree with that Dongle.
Mart, don't stop posting your pictures, these rules are only to stop the extremes as is said above.
12-03-2020, 12:20 PM
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To my mind one should always try and present the best of a photo. This could mean editing. I doubt very much you ever see a photo that has not been edited in some way or other, it is part of photography, same as a camera and lens is.Maybe because members don't know how to edit is why they are against it?
12-03-2020, 12:43 PM
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Re: Photo Competition?
Originally Posted by realspeed
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To my mind one should always try and present the best of a photo. This could mean editing. I doubt very much you ever see a photo that has not been edited in some way or other, it is part of photography, same as a camera and lens is.Maybe because members don't know how to edit is why they are against it?
12-03-2020, 12:46 PM
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Of all the forums I've been a member of (or been a Moderator of) over 20 or more years, this is the only one where this editing subject and objections to it have come up. Photos are always just taken at face value, so I genuinely can't see a reason for the rule.I agree that a straight photo shouldn't be altered with bits taken out or put in but that's not the entirety of editing. Editing is cropping, resizing, reducing the file size, sharpening, brightening, darkening and possibly straightening uprights when they are bent over by lens distortion.
Maybe realspeed is right in saying that those objecting don't know how to do these things and are unwilling to learn a few simple steps in a photo editor, many of which are free and good.
12-03-2020, 01:38 PM
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At this rate nothing will get done!I could argue unfairness as someone may have an all singing and dancing camera that edits light, horizon, camera shake etc without touching a button. Mine points and shoots, if it does anything else I don't know how to fiddle with it.
I think Barry's good to offer to do it, I wouldn't be able to do all the fiddling with numbers and polls etc.
Even if he did leave my last photo out!
I'm going to get me hair cut.
12-03-2020, 04:17 PM
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Re: Photo Competition?
Originally Posted by mart
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I can't understand why editing is an issue for you and some others either, so it's an impasse.
The solution would be for those more wise than the majority of us here, to start a another competition for those more experienced photographers just to see how it goes.
I'm sure those of us 'point & shooters' would still love to see all your photos in that competition too.
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