Why was my photo deleted?
Posted by Christi Ginger on 12 December 2007.
Hey everybody! Recently we've had some questions about the JPG photo guidelines, so I thought I'd do a little explainin'. JPG is growing so fast into such an awesome community that we've had to do a lot of talking here at the JPG offices about how to stay focused on the kind of great photography you've been seeing in every issue of JPG Magazine!
So, for clarification, here are the three types of photos that can't be on the JPG site:
1. Photos we absolutely can't put in the magazine: JPG is a great photo sharing community, but we're also making a great magazine here! Photos that have been overtly edited, with weird Photoshop layers, or with added text, can't make it into the magazine so we need to have them off the site. We're looking for mostly unmodified photography, so if it couldn't have possibly been done with just a camera and a darkroom, it might be a good sign that it's a bit too modified. Adjustments to sharpness and color are fine (we use Photoshop ourselves!), but we just don't publish photos that look digitally altered.
2. Photos that have borders and text on them: We're still a small lil' office here at JPG and we just don't have the resources to edit out digital borders, or hunt down a copy of the photo without the time stamp or copyright statement, before sending these photos to the printer. We're trying to run a mean and lean operation and keep a high quality magazine coming to ya cheap. We'd really appreciate it if you would remove and re-upload your photos that have borders and text on them.
3. Things that aren't photos: Illustrations, collages, and artwork are all awesome, but aren't quite right for JPG.
On a side note, there have also been a few incidents lately of really, um, icky photos being uploaded to JPG. We're sorry if anybody saw something they'd rather forget. Every single day, JPG users upload thousands of photos and we can't look at each one before it's on the site. We do look at every single photo you flag as inappropriate (thanks for your help guys!) So for clarification, JPG's nudity policy goes like this-- we accept artful nudes, but we absolutely can't have full frontal nudity on the site or overtly pornographic pics. I'd really appreciate it if you stop uploading them, because there's still a few weeks before New Years and I've already reached my quota of annual-lady-part-views.
I also just wanted to say that we've been so proud this week of the community and how supportive you all are of each other's work. It's so inspiring to see what a talented, brilliant, and hilarious community of photographers can create. Okay, I'm getting teary now, so let me know if you have any questions or comments!
