I originally wrote this article in 2010 for the L&CPU and it has been published by the L&CPU, the PAGB and various other UK Federations under my name. I realised I had never published it on my own Blog, so here it is for completeness. This was prompted because I was contacted by a Canadian club, asking if they could circulate it over there, which I was happy to agree. An interpretation by Christine Widdall What follows is not a legal document but an essay on the subject of visual plagiarism. I don’t claim that it is complete, only that it is my interpretation of a difficult subject and, as…

The debate about how far you can go in changing a photograph in post processing, how much of a finished image must be photographic in content and what plug-ins and filters can be used legitimately in photographic competitions/exhibitions, has been simmering or sometimes raging for almost two decades, ever since some of us had begun to get into digital imaging. Today the debate seems to be getting more acrimonious than ever before in some photo clubs. I remember saying, after perhaps a bit more wine than I should have consumed, at the opening of a club exhibition a few years back that, in my view, photography cannot easily be separated…