Perhaps in future years we could request that participants upload the original (give or take a little cropping/rotation/other things that wouldn't be seen as affecting the 'authenticity' of the photo) as well as the HDR'd version? Harry Mitchellhttp://enwp.org/User:HJ Phone: +44 (0) 7507 536971 Skype: harry_j_mitchell From: Ed Hand edwardxx@gmail.com To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 16:21 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WLM awards ceremony and community Xmas party 2014
Dear Gordo and list Thanks - I didn't know about HDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_imaging
This phenomenon was troubling me too, and now I have a name for it.
Personally, all I do before uploading images to Commons is the occassional rotation, crop or slight sharpen. However, I've been uploading too many images to have time for much else.
As for WLM, I don't recall any mention in the judging criteria of the desirability (or otherwise) of various post-processing techniques. If I was looking to select an image for a Wikipedia article, I would be reluctant to choose a heavily-stylized image. Of course, WLM and Commons are not looking to merely provide an image bank for Wikipedia.
Perhaps the judges could consider providing some guidance about HDR and other post-processing techniques for next year's WLM ?
best wishes Edward Hands (Edwardx)
On 12 December 2014 at 12:57, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
during the creation of a calendar of the most impressive photos from Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2014 (and several other countries) I learned about re-use:
- "Wiki Loves Monuments" is not a registered trademark - the publisher
was very afraid of violating a trademark
- photos without description nearly useless ("Church" is not an adequate
description)
- low resolution is a common problem
- in the publishing industry nobody knows about Creative Commons
licenses ("Is CC-BY-SA-3.0 the artist's name?")
- landscape mode beats upright mode
Can I say how much I dislike the very obvious of HDR in many images? My personal choice is always for minimal or zero post processing.
Gordo
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