Hi All, my first post here although I have been referring to the wealth of information stored & created here for eons!
I'm seeking opinion on the use of camera club members that attend photographic workshops/ tutorials and then submit some of those images into club/ external competitions. At our club we see a lot of this. A member will pay considerable money to attend a workshop and the standard of these images can be very good so they score well in competitions. Conversely the "normal" standard of their work can be quite at odds with these images, shall we say quite poor.
A club member that seeks out locations/ ideas etc and creates their own composition, edits their own pictures and then submits them can feel quite cheated when their images don't quite have the "Wow" factor and score less.
So is the use of "assisted" images fair in these circumstances? What do other clubs do or say about such matters?
Thoughts?
I'm seeking opinion on the use of camera club members that attend photographic workshops/ tutorials and then submit some of those images into club/ external competitions. At our club we see a lot of this. A member will pay considerable money to attend a workshop and the standard of these images can be very good so they score well in competitions. Conversely the "normal" standard of their work can be quite at odds with these images, shall we say quite poor.
A club member that seeks out locations/ ideas etc and creates their own composition, edits their own pictures and then submits them can feel quite cheated when their images don't quite have the "Wow" factor and score less.
So is the use of "assisted" images fair in these circumstances? What do other clubs do or say about such matters?
Thoughts?
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