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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Leiden, the Netherlands
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My point is that even extensive use of photoshop can still lead to a much better "naturalistic" result. So there is no way to tell if a good picture, which doesn't look processed or surreal, has been extensively retouched or processed.
For this fact I interpreted the 'rules' as a means to make sure people only enter with completely unprocessed pictures. Which is something I don't agree with for reasons I stated earlier.
In my book a better way would to just have themes, like 'portraits', 'architecture', 'the number three', etc... Some of these themes would lend themselves better to a naturalistic approach, and some to more artistic freedom. In the end we get to decide what's the nicest picture.
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