2010 National Geographic Photography Contest
A message about digital manipulation from the Director of Photography of National Geographic:
I strongly urge you to submit photographs that are un-manipulated and real. The world is already full of visual artifice, and we don’t want the National Geographic Photo Contest to add to it. We want to see the world through your eyes, not the tools of Photoshop.
Please do not digitally enhance or alter your photographs (beyond the basics needed to achieve realistic color balance and sharpness). If you have digitally added or removed anything, please don't submit the shot. We look at every photo to see if it's authentic, and if we find that yours is in any way deceptive, we'll disqualify it.
DODGING AND BURNING: Dodging (to brighten shadows) or burning (to darken highlights) is fine, but please don’t overdo it. Your goal in using digital darkroom techniques should be to adjust the dynamic tonal range of an image so that it more closely resembles what you saw.
COLOR SATURATION: Just as with dodging and burning, your goal should be to make it real. Please avoid significant over- or undersaturation.
SOLARIZATION, MEZZOTINT, DUOTONE, ETC.: Discouraged as being too gimmicky. There are a myriad of alteration "filters" available in digital photo software; try not to be swayed to use them. They may be cool and fun, but they won’t help you in this contest.
BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES: OK.
HAND-TINTED IMAGES: OK, but only if you're experienced in this art.
CROPPING: OK, if you feel it makes the photo better.
STITCHED PANORAMAS: OK, but only if the segments were all made within the same time frame. We don't want panoramas with sections made at significantly different times. Do not change focal length when you create a stitched image. Do not stretch the meaning of panorama to include elements that weren't in the scene as you saw it. If your entry is a stitched image, please indicate this in the caption. (A stitched panorama is created from multiple images, each taken at a different angle from the same position, then combined using digital techniques. It results in a wider view than can be achieved with most wide-angle lenses.)
FISH-EYE LENSES: OK, but enter at your own risk—editors tend to dislike such optical gimmicks.
HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR) IMAGES: OK, but like panoramas, only if the combined parts are made at about the same time. We don't want final images where the foreground was shot at noon and the sky at sunset. If your entry is an HDR image, please indicate this in the caption. (An HDR image is created from multiple images of exactly the same scene, made rapidly but at different exposures, then combined using digital darkroom techniques. The final image, when done successfully, allows one exposure for shadows to be combined with another for highlights to produce a final image that has a greater dynamic range than is possible with a single exposure.)
後製與否其實不是問題的關鍵。數碼暗房和膠片暗房一樣都屬於攝影技巧，但從來沒有一個比賽是比攝影技巧的，都是比主題和內容呈現。這要求裁判能夠判斷一張照片裡什麼是技巧什麼是藝術主題，可惜很少有這樣同時具備攝影技術和藝術修養的裁判。
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