Picture approval process
So, you’ve uploaded your first picture, then tagged it in your dashboard? Congratulations! But… what now?
The picture approval process
Once your picture has been tagged, it is actually waiting for a moderator to review it. The moderator can either accept it, so it goes immediately live on the site, or reject it, which means permanently erasing the picture.
Whatever the choice of the moderator is, we’re not judging your quality as an artist. Yet, we are no photo sharing website, like Flickr, which job is precisely to store any picture any user would want to upload. FatCap is an online magazine about street-art and graffiti, and as such, we have editorial guidelines that we try to follow.
Our editorial choice is simple: quality over quantity. We think that you readers (artists, photographs, or graffiti fans) love to browse lots of fresh pictures. And when you do, you usually don’t like switching from a top level piece to a very low level one. That’s why we try to stay as homogenous possible in our choices.
Besides, here is a list of things we usually don’t like in pictures:
- blur
- poor resolution (like bad phone cameras)
- sun reflects
- sub-exposition, or over-exposition
- bah photowork, with pictures pasted within each other in a dirty way
We also have guidelines for videos: they MUST be street-art or graffiti videos, depite how exciting it could be, we doubt your holidays videos be interesting to anyone. ;)
That said, we also wanted to underline that we have no blacklist, so even if we’ve refused 10 of your pictures, it doesn’t mean we won’t accept the next 10 if the quality of the shot, as well as the quality of the painting, is consistent with the level you usually find on FatCap.
If you really want to be explained why your picture has been refused, send us an email (canwehelp _-AT-_ fatcap _-DOT-_ com), enclosing the very picture, and we will do our best to give you some hints, and tell you how you should proceed to get more pictures accepted.
Image credits: OrangeMouse
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