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unedited, If you can take a picture without editing it you are a truley great photographer. If you can see a great picture and take in the perfect way then thats the best you can be. A photograph that is heavily edited is no longer a photograph it is infact just an image, Its more graphic work than photograph, that is why ephotozine annoys me. The best pictures are always heavily edited, I think this site would be greatly improved by banning edited pictures. Have another site for edited pictures fine but if you've added some guy pointing a flash light where the sun should be, that is simply graphics work, which is great, we all know it is, but its not a photograph.
Oh well that's that then - all of you out!
Leaves just me and him 
Think of the book we could produce
Dave
Where do you draw the line though? If for example you shoot in RAW format then some form of editing is needed just to get the the image looking true to life. If you hand in your roll of Kodak 200 to the nice girl at the photobooth at Tesco, her machine edits the prints for you... If you develope your own negatives, you can change the look of the images depending on chemicals/timing etc...
LOL @ Boyd!!!
Would Pete then become an "un-editor"? We could have UC's!
Quote: The best pictures are always heavily edited
The best pictures according to who?
Quote: I think this site would be greatly improved by banning edited pictures
There are categories for digital manipulation, traditional darkroom techniques etc. I see no reason why one skill should be banned in favour of another.
Quote: Have another site for edited pictures fine but If you've added some guy pointing a flash light where the sun should be, that is simply graphics work, which is great, we all know it is, but its not a photograph
In fact it is two photographs put together in a clever way.
Excuse the pun but photography as a whole is not as black and white as you make it out to be. 
Quote: But who would edit it?
well......................... US
changing a picture to balck and white can be done on the camera, i think anything that can be done on the camera is not editing. If your camera doesn't do black and white, it is fine to edit because your camera is not as good as you would like, but adding things that where never their is far over the top. don't get me wrong i am not totally against editing, i just think editing software should only be used to make the picture more like it looked when it was taken e.g. if the picture is darker than the enviromant was when you where their it would be fine to brighten it
and its a fact editing is different because graphics and photography are two completly seperate subjects, I have never seen them studied at the same time or even in a similar way, so when you start to edit it is then graphics work and no longer a photograph but an "image"
put its called "ephotozine" so if i don't think its a photograph then i will have somthing to say won't I? and
Quote: The best pictures according to who?
Well theres a great big dirty picture of a man holding a torch over his picture on the front page, did you miss that? tht says picture of the week over it! oh ye i remember now
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