photo[Slap]

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About photo[Slap]

Hi,

welcome to our group for our take on the best quality stuff on flickr. We wanted there to be a place where we could see photos we think are exceptional in some way in a number of different genres from a wide variety of contributors. All this without having to trawl through many pages of a pool or a bunch of different groups. And then there was photo[Slap], or 'the Slap' as it is affectionately known. Anyone can join and post, and we make an effort to invite a broad range of high quality images. We actively curate the pool to ensure that standards stay high and that there is a nice mix of different styles and contributors. Don't be surprised or disheartened if your posts get deleted, then. Try with something else. Just only post your best stuff that you think will fit in the pool, try not to post two photos next to each other and try not to repost stuff that has been deleted before, it will just get deleted again (you know who you are).

Have a look through the pool to get an idea of what gets in (the first half page is often awaiting curation). Otherwise have a look through the random, ambiguous and possibly misleading likes and dislikes below.

Main criteria we made up

- technical prowess isn't necessarily a virtue here - we want to see images that make us react, not just perfectly executed yet dull stuff
- something photographically novel or unusual (but still of a quality that fits the group)

Other stuff we like
- moody monochrome
- informal, candid or unusual people pictures
- dark colours
- creative portraiture
- street photography
- quality LOMO
- fluffy bokeh
- subtext
- analogue photography, though we welcome suitable digital stuff too
- negative space
- photojournalism
- photos that aren't in a hundred other groups

What we don't like
- HDR
- cheesy frames
- stuff that's been done a million times before on flickr
- flower macros and nothing shots of your children and pets
- gimmicky digital effects
- large and obtrusive copyright notices
- anything that looks like a holiday snapshot

If you have a lovely picture of a boat or a sunset which would look fabulous in a calender it will most likely not fit in here(and would possibly make our stuff look amateurish by comparison)

Cheers

the Slapprs