Quote Originally Posted by penagate View Post
Martin, I don't believe there is much merit to a category of "unedited" photos. As abhijit said, all photos have to be edited in some fashion, so it becomes a case of drawing an arbitrary line somewhere which could just lead to disagreement. For example, I fiddle with levels and curves on all of my shots and crop 99% of them as well, but I wouldn't call any of that editing. Someone else might.
I don't totally agree because certainly a picture uploaded directly from a point-and-shoot camera would not be edited but I recognize your point. Hopefully we could agree on a definition for editing such as anything done outside the camera (with perhaps the exception of cropping). That would make the processing of RAW images editing as well.

My main purpose in bringing up the issue of "heavily edited" photos was that I felt that they had an advantage over photos taken by people who might not have access to PhotoShop, etcetera, but considering that none of my entries have been edited and that I've done fairly well may mean that it's not an issue. In any case if we can't agree on some reasonable definition then the worst thing that could happen is that I won't even ask and all images will be lumped into the same group which is the way it has been.