Let's see.... as I was the one who wrote the guidelines... maybe I should say a word or two? They weren't written to be a source of contention nor are they hard and strict rules. A lot of thought did go into trying to make them as fair and as reasonable as possible..... maybe some don't see it that way shrug.... can't please everyone.

Point 1.

Photo manipulations and photos that have been heavily changed are not a big deal.... never have been (at least not for me)... as long as it's all your own photography, why should anyone really care? Really... there are much more important things in life to get pissed off about... I think the intention of those lines have been misinterpreted. It has nothing to do with your usual, typical postwork that we all do to our images.

Explanation: When I first started on as Moderator I used to get numerous complaints insert sarcastic tone (oh the joys of being a mod!) from people because of the amount of heavily manipulated images that were in the photo gallery, and by heavy manipulations I mean the bad photo with 10 PS filters slapped on it... You know the kind (it doesn't look like a photo anymore) but it still doesn't look good either... The gallery was a lot smaller then. The quality of work being uploaded now is way beyond what it was then too. Much has changed in two years. So basically this was written in for people to think about which gallery you want to put it in.... USE YOUR JUDGEMENT.... It does say that... not sure why people worry so much about this one....?

Sometimes there are images uploaded to the photo gallery that I thought would have a wider audience in 2D or Mixed Medium...that no longer resembled photos.... but hey it's up to the member... whatever!

Point 2.

Images containing 2D elements.....

Explanation: The thought process here was more along the lines of photographic clip art that one can get on those cd's or PSP tubes for example. If your adding in stuff that isn't yours to a photograph, than it really ought to go into 2D.... sorry but this sort of falls into the same category as stock in my book.....

Point 3.

Stock photography, a big fat no way... pretty straight forward and the one thing everyone seems to agree on.

Point 4.

3D elements.....

Explanation.... we have numerous 3d galleries on Renderosity.... 3D mixed with photography is Mixed Media there's a gallery for it.... If I want to see 3D I have plenty of places to look, I have no desire to see it in the photo gallery.

If the photo gallery were to become a free-for-all, upload whatever the hell you want gallery, then why bother to have a Photography Gallery.....? I come here to see photographs, and photographic art. I generally don't spend any time in 2D or Mixed Medium, Fractal, etc, I'm sure I'm missing some great stuff, but it's not what I'm interested in.... and it is not what I'm here for....

Generally I think what we have in place now is good, the content of the gallery is outstanding, and it's fair.... were things to change drastically I would have to honestly say that I would not have an interest in being here.

Message edited on: 10/27/2004 15:08

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