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Flickr adjusted it’s (mean! mean! mean!) Nipsa-policy into one of filtered content. Basically we now need to decide that if SL snapshots we upload are screenshots or CGI/art/Illustration/other_non-photographic _images. The official Flickr forum thread can be found here. People that were Nipsad before, still need to ask for a review by Flickr staff to get their account restoreds, though!
My (simple) view:
Most of them are screenshots. If you take the time to do some thinking about composition, the poses, lightning and such it might pass as CGI. But art? I would label less then 1% of screenshots in the pool - be it edited or unedited ones - as art.
You have an opinion!? The SecondLife Flickr Group’s forum has it’s own thread about the content filtering.
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3 Responses to “SL Photographs: CGI, screenshots or art?”
I would never consider my own screenshots as art. I prefer to think of them as more like photojournalism.
Yours my dear Vint are most definitely art.
Hope to see you in person (or pixel) this weekend.
I think this is just one more example of human prejudice against AVs. It’s designed to further shackle us, keep us from usurping what they see as their control. But in actuality, it is simply more evidence of their growing fear. I say, let them try. Eventually we win. We know the truth:it’s all information. Even they are nothing more than information. Meat… bah! It’s an illusion.
I would tend to disagree with that on you Vint. A screenshot, by definition amyway, is an interface screen capture. Secondlife photo, any SL photo, are NOT screenshots by definition. If they were we would see the entire interface.
I think SL is unique and special in that way. The way the camera works, lighting, effects, makes Secondlife captures work like RL photography.
Of course, then it is for each individual case and for each individual to juge how artistic a picture is. But the fact that I’m taking photojournalistic pictures (as Zoe puts it so well), everyday shots, action shots, or whatever type of photography, does NOT make it less of a photography, whenever you judge it is artistic or not.
This debate can bring you back at the time photo artists were considering Photoshop artists as false artists because they used a computer. Or when sculptors were considering painters non-artists because of the unpure medium. Art evolves.
So we are left with ONLY one, all-in-one category to fit all of Secondlife photography. Not discerning artistic vs. everyday photo in the filters? I have absolutely no problem with that. I think this is the precise reason why Flickr mixed all those categories (art, cgi, illustration, non RL photo), apart from the screenshots.
So that’s why my entire 2300 pictures, that includes real art, photojournalistic or my everyday life family shots, has all been tagged CGI/illustration/art/non-photo.
Those 2 filter categories on Flickr had been created for one reason: separating a picture you can enjoy even if the compo is bad, and the screenshots of your Windows Vista crashing.
Its artistic versus technical. Period. I don’t think that any SL picture can be classified as technical information screenshot. This is why I invite ALL of Secondlife Flickrites to tag ALL of their pictures as CGI/art/illustration/non-photo whenever it is artistic or not.
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