Yes, indeed :) But still, it is clearly an "edited" picture, whether there is one single original or not. Similarly there are sometimes beautiful panorama's composed from several originals. I think the general idea should be that all should be allowed to participate, but if it is overedited, the jury should of course not call them a winner :) It doesn't disqualify them from the contest though. 

Lodewijk


2011/7/22 Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek@gmail.com>
2011/7/22 Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>:
> Hi Susana,
> we indeed discussed this in Berlin as well. In the Netherlands we had some
> images overly edited ( for
> example http://www.flickr.com/photos/drutenonline/5040086616/in/pool-1516413@N22/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumperjack/3107302684/in/pool-1516413@N22/ .
> We decided in Berlin that we would leave it up to the jury, assuming that
> this specific issue would be covered sufficiently by the "useful on
> Wikipedia" jury instruction. It might be indeed a good idea to suggest to
> always also submit the original.
> Of course editing and then submitting is only allowed if the photo is own
> work, and editing other people's work would not result in a valid new
> submission.

This picture is typical example of HDR - in case of HDR - there is no
single original... HDR-s are made as a mix of set of  shots of one
picture. HDR is quite often a very usefull as a documentary -
especially for night shots and poor light conditions. I think for such
a cases the jury might decide if the the picture is OK  - or it is
over-edited... Just general requirement for good-quality pictures in
Commons could be used:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images


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