I’ve been reviewing some Wayspot submissions recently and came across several photos that seem heavily manipulated or filtered. I’m curious to hear the community’s opinion on this.
For example, look at this image: the trees are unnaturally pink, and there is significant color bleeding on the surrounding buildings and ground, which are clear signs of aggressive filtering or digital manipulation.
I believe that Wayfarer submissions should be realistic representations of the location. Does the community consider this “poor quality” or a “fake submission”? I’ve been reporting these as manipulated content, but I’d love to know how others handle these in their reviews. Is this something that should be strictly rejected?
Unless it was stolen from another website or AI fakes, I don"t consider photos like this as abuse. Just a regular rejection as over manipulated. Whenever I get one of these too perfect photos in review it does immediately have me checking Google image search for where they could have stolen it from.
Hard disagree. I don’t see anything wrong with this image. That tree probably was pink at the time of year this photo was taken. Has a filter been applied? Yes, probably. But the building is 100% identifiable. In my best judgment, obvious doctoring means changing the subject to manipulate the reviewer, like making a derelict building appear safe.
I don’t know if you saw the thread a couple of weeks ago that had wayspots photos from [Rio de Janeiro?] which were heavily doctored, making real places look like artificial landscapes but not changing the subject.
To clarify. The cherry tree covered image above is one I would accept as long as it wasn’t stolen or fake. Taking a photo at a moment when the world looks amazing is one of the joys of learning photography. There is a certain person on the discord that loves taking photos of places under the northern lights. These kinds of photos highlight the actual object not obscure it. I’d reject photos where they have been manipulated by AI and sections are fake. Also photos where the object is way off in the background and the photo is all about the beautiful moment. Keep the object front and center and use the moment to add to it.
That doesn’t look like a photo of cherry blossoms. That looks like leaves tinted pink. Even the nandina bushes in front have been tinted pink. They don’t turn pink. I would not accept this.
Frankly i may not realize its edited by AI if not because its stand out. I dont AI check every nomination unless i think its AI generated. For this case i think i would reject it
While mines arent like this, I edit my pictures, either zooming in or out, cropping to take out pointless noise, changing brightness so it can be seen when I take my 4am pictures where my flash and a streetlight a bit away are the only light sources lol
This one has clearly had some colour manipulation. At first glance it looks like cherry blossoms until you notice all the things Cyndie showed. I would reject this for the photo.
In my own nominations I crop my photo square but rarely do anything else
