Hi Beth,
Your understanding of the rules is correct - it's not OK to apply images to a photo (major post production work with imaging software) although postproduction changes to the whole image (levels, saturation, etc. are allowed). I believe multiple exposures are OK, though.
But the tricky thing is that a lot of talented people on this site can use very careful planning to produce effects right out of the camera that look like there must have been some manipulation involved, or can come up with clever ways of using changes to the whole image to produce very striking postproduction effects.
The way that the rules are enforced is that if anyone sees a photo that they think has (or may have) broken the rules then they can click on the "Recommend disqualification for this photo" button. The selfless peopl who run this site then contact the photographer and ask for the original unedited straight-out-of-camera file (with all the EXIF information intact) and a detailed breakdown of exactly what was done wih the image. If they can't reproduce the effect within the rules then the photo is disqualified; if they CAN then they post a note on the photo to tell everyone it's been checked out.
One of the benefits of dpchallenge not allowing spot editing of photos is that people come up with tremendously creative ways of creating images without using post processing - check out the How'd they do that? section for details of some of these images. So it may well be that the photos you're thinking of were obtained this way.
* This message has been edited by the author on 10/31/2002 3:33:59 AM. |
