Possible Rules Updates?

[Elsinore]

It’s been awhile since we updated the rules. Is it time to tweak them? The full rules are here:

https://www.fark.com/farq/farktography/

[Lovesandwich]

I think that the biggest changes should be related to phone cameras. Since phone cameras do a lot of behind the scenes adjustments, even when filters aren’t being used, that might be something to look at. For example, we have always allowed in camera photos however you can do a lot of “in camera” stuff with a phone such as panoramas, which technically violate the rules.

There is also the issue of HDR which a lot of phones and some cameras, automatically use. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of us have been using it without even knowing it. The thing with HDR is it isn’t like the old days where you get heavily blown out lighting and saturation from software trying to do the adjustments (an example https://flic.kr/p/8Aqdwv). Most HDR these days is rather subtle, and barely noticed however it helps balance out lighting and saturation. It might be worth it to adjust the rules on that as well.

Those are just a couple that popped into my head.

[Elsinore]

Oh man, I kind of forgot how bad the halo-ing was on the early HDR stuff. Ugh, so bad. But you’re right…modern HDR, especially in-camera, is far more subtle. I sometimes shoot stage performances where lighting is always less than ideal, and the in-camera HDR looks amazingly similar to how the stage looks to the eye in the real world.

[Lovesandwich]

That’s kind of the thing. Even the newest version of Lightroom seems to get the lighting better looking than before. I am not sure what they have changed, but I have been getting better looking photos from meh shots. Modern software seems to get things right more often than not. Even phone camera’s do better with lighting than my old Nikon D300.

[Lovesandwich]

As someone today entered a photo using the app Hypocam, which has a number of filters and other settings to create a B&W photo as well as other settings to tweak the different looks of the photo, I figured that I would add this to the list.

This could be considered in phone editing, although filters are frowned upon. Something else to discuss.

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