Professional Photography Ethics Where Do You Draw the Line?

Hi everyone,

We had a pretty heated debate at our local camera club last night about how much post-processing is "too much" for a nature contest.

One member submitted a landscape where the colors were so vivid they looked radioactive, and many of us suspect he used generative fill to add a more dramatic mountain range.

It’s a tough situation because we want to encourage creativity but keep the competition fair for purists.

I’m looking for a technical solution that can provide an objective analysis through deep photoshop detection.

Thanks in advance.

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