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Originally Posted by LotusLocost

I feel that a competition with high amounts of editing allowed, would fit better on a photography forum than a car forum where the majority of semi good hobby-photographers with small editing skills.

But of course, someone will always seek the arena where they find themselves on the top.

You're argument is that editing penalizes "amateurs". My argument would be that not allowing editing penalizes those that are able to do it. Who SHOULD be entering these contests? People who just bought their first camera and just took their first pic? I enter the contests here as I do ~95% automotive photography. I've entered the general photography comp once and the automotive one 7 time (IIRC). I don't know of many photography sites that have regular automotive photography competitions and I find them fun.

EDIT: The thing I don't understand is that some people seem to think those who edit and win would never have a chance of winning without editing and that editing is in some way "cheating".

There are people entering photos that have nicer cameras/lenses/etc than me, but I'm not going to complain about it.