jpeg.net revisited

We had this discussion a week or two ago, but I don't think it went

anywhere. I've loadd the photo.net home page twice today. Both

times the "photo" up for critique has had no photographic content

whatsoever. <a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?

photo_id=837871">This</a> was the latest one. Unless they've

started installing fractal generation software in the Coolpix 950,

this didn't come out of a camera.

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Digital manipulation of a photograph is one thing. Total digital

fabrication is something else altogether, and I am sick to death of

seeing it all over the site.

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I think it's up to the user community to police itself; obviously

it's not practical for anyone at photo.net to look at every upload.

However, in order to do that we need a clear statement of

photo.net's policy we can point to. If people want to upload this

stuff in their own personal folders it's probably not the end of the

world. At minimum, though, they shouldn't be allowed to submit

something for critique that has no photographic content of any kind.

I'm pretty open-minded about (digital or non-) image manipulation, but I agree with what Mark has said here. It nees to at least start out as a "photographic" image.