I'm absolutely loving the photos so far!

I demand( well not really lol ) MOAR ABSTRACT!!@!!@ :D

There's something about architecture that's really appealing, and pleasing to me. I guess it's the lines, cures and many different shapes lighting can make.

^_^

I absolutely love fractals. This section, much like the photography one, are not as active as the others.

I applied a bit ago for coord.

Thank you very much!

MrsLubner, I absolutely love the painted buildings! Where is this at?

Quote - Superb capture and upload kokabeel.

God Bless.

Quote - A fantastic POV, kokabeel.

Thank you very much! The colour version is not too bad. I prefer BW though ;)

Awesome! Congratulations on GoTM!

I have exactly 23008 photos alone in my 'photos' folder(where I import), I just checked lol. This is not even comparable to what I HAD before formatting and backing up clients sessions on DVDs! I'm happy EOS utility takes care of the sorting mostly for my RAW files, otherwise I'd be swamped!

I have a folder for exporting after minor editing(main after RAW), then subs for Renderosity ,500px/ DeviantArt,ModelMayhem and Facebook for my personal photos. Then I have sub folders in another folder for clients per name/date and their various sizes for websites, e-mail and Hi-res.

I need a new harddrive or two ;/

Welcome!

Congratulations to those that've been choosen! Great work all around.

Awesome! Gives me a chance to break out my new equipment.

Quote - Before i forget what i was about to say...EXIF data can quite easily be removed before uploading whereby it cannot be recovered by anyone...

Thus why I said "IF PRESERVED" the EXIF can show the full extent to what has been done to a specific photo.  

Quote - It's also worthy to note that if an image is moved to ANY gallery and the artist feels strongly enough in opposition, we will listen carefully to their objection and if we are shown to be wrong, we will galdly correct our error. :-)

This is why I brought up EXIF. I understand fully mistakes can be made. However, there are many different mediums in photography than just pressing down the shutter(pinhole,various sfx lenses etc...). It can make a photo appear painted, distored etc... I'm just hoping everyone who is juding the potentially misplaced photos knows this.Some may, or may not be familiar with it(general), and not sure how something was done.

Again, since people seem to think I'm agaisnt this(judging by the tone of some people).I'm for re-estabilishing the rules of Renderosity, and this(which I ALREADY said in my first post!). It's that there's a lot to think about, and look at when judging the work of someone else.

Quote - Thank you kojabeek, but as I mentioned, it is not how it started out or necessarily how it is changed with postwork, it is the appearance of the finished product. A photo of an oil painting on canvass without including any of the frame or background on which the painting is placed would also be 2D here at Renderosity.  :-)

virginiese, When combining Poser and a stock image, you have the option of Poser or Mixed Medium for galleries.  Poser does not restrict the completed composition to only Poser elements but the majority of it should be Poser to upload to that gallery.  You can always chose the Mixed Medium Gallery instead because that gallery accepts any two or more mediums. That way, if anyone is in doubt about which software gallery to pick, they know they are always safe in the Mixed Medium Gallery.

I think you misunderstand why I bring up EXIF data. It's not just going to show the make, and model of a camera and the settings. If preserved it can show the extent of what has been done to an image. I say this because of the potential mix up that an image that looks painted may in fact be a legitimate image.

Work from, let's say, Sally Mann, is not postworked. You may consider her work to be mixed media when it's 100% photography. Or even Annie Leibovitz, her workd is 'painted' photography.

There are lenses like Lensbaby, using toy cameras, heck even pinholes and pantyhose that can make the world look painted.

I don't do mixed media that often, and never had my work moved. I can understand why you want to fix this issue, and I'm not agaisnt it.

Extended EXIF data shows every action, every save, every filter etc... that is used on a single file. If you look through this information (as an admin/mod/cord) I think that may be easier to determine the extent of postwork. I'm not sure if Renderosity completely wipes this information when uploading, I know it preserves some EXIF data(like camera model, aperture etc...).

Quote - Can photos be used as evidence? I guess that's a legal question that I'm not qualified to answer, but I suspect that photographic evidence must now be subject to a much greater degree of challenge to verify it's authenticity than in the past. I'm not sure how sophisticated the tools that law enforcement agencies (particularly the FBI & CIA) use are, but I would guess that they can spot amateur modifications easily & that it would take extremely careful & precise work to fool their experts, if it's possible at all... 

I have to agree with this, and also state this:

Photographs have been maniuplated in the past though they've been film. Now more than ever it's easier to manipulate a photograph.