How can the judging panel make sure that the photo isnt edited to enhance the image?With the advent of AI won’t it be really difficult to filter out the unedited ones from the edited?
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It depends what you mean by ‘edited’. Look at some iconic analogue (monochrome) photos taken by Ansel Adams, he would spend hours in the darkroom dodging and burning a print and produce amazing images.
Almost all images you see have been edited, either by cropping the image or by dodging (darkening part of the image) or burning (lightning part of the image). Photographers get into trouble when they move from enhancing the image (crop, dodge or burn) to image manipulation by adding/removing elements or moving parts of the image around.
Photo competitions rely on honesty and other photographers examining the images, there have been a number of quite famous photographers who have been caught manipulating images in photo competitions and disqualified.
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