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
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From: Ed Hand <edwardxx(a)gmail.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)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(a)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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