Here’s a recent burden that I’ve been feeling in the past few months that I recently posted in some photography forums that I am a member of.
How far will you go just to get ahead?
Are you willing to bend the rules just to win?
How about a scenario…
A contest with a specific theme whose main rule is for the photograph to be taken a certain date. you check your archives and it gave you an idea that would be perfect for the contest theme. Knowing that the shooting date could be an issue, you proceed with your idea and shoot it anyway. And just to play safe, you change your exif. A few weeks later, you find out you win.
How proud would you feel of your accomplishment?
Or… when they say in the rules that post processing is not allowed, but you just felt a little bit of post processing would make the photo great, will you do it?
“If you can get away with it, why not” comes to mind. But last week, I heard this saying that goes, “Image is what you do in public. Character is what you do in private”
I’m very, very interested to hear other people’s thoughts on this.
Something to think about, right?
//aF
