Nepal crematorium scene - warning mature content

Rags · Dec 1, 2013

Derrel said:
I have to disagree with cropping out the sky and the crowd of funeral guests. Cropping out the sky eliminates a crowd of twenty-five people, all silhouetted against the sky, and looking downward, where the funeral cremation is taking place. Eliminating the sky changes the emphasis of the photo into what looks like a man setting afire a pile of rubbish down in some type of open sewer canals. Cropping off the sky and the funeral crowd totally ruins the shot.With the funeral viewers eliminated, the guy might as well be torching a pile of garbage. Removing a critical aspect of the shot, the crowd of twenty-five people who are gathered and who are WATCHING a body being burned, in an unthinking manner really makes no sense. The viewers are THERE, WATCHING the body being cremated...THAT is the shot!

Yup... that was my read Derral.. but the criticisms are valid for the amount of blown sky (I just wanted to keep that turret...

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These people were honoring the cremated (there were two - simultaneously); the immediate family on the right (probably paid for it) friends and some tourists on the bridge - just a judgement call for the cropping.

Mod:

1) Title changed and warning added... Fair enough.. no problem with the change

2) Please lets keep clam and respectful to all people, not need to fight.... That said - we can disagree

3) The forums operate to a family friendly general policy (with the exception of the adult/nsfw subsection). Please note that content which is found to cross the line is either removed from view (if the user who started the thread isn't a subscribed members) or is moved to the nsfw subsection (if the user is a subscribed member and thus can continue to read the replies). I have a family and if children are in the room when adult topics are discussed, I send them out of the room. I honestly didn't think it was offensive.

But the title of the forum is PJ & sports. You might like to consider separating them, because some PJ as the title now suggests is for mature adults.

I'm new here and came because I like The_Travelers stuff. His street can be compelling and edgy and I think it should be.

If you as moderator think my stuff don't fit here I'll leave; no problem and I won't take offense

Rags

vintagesnaps · Dec 1, 2013

I'm glad the title was changed because I saw it last night; I think the problem was that it gave the impression it was going to be something lighthearted, I expected to see a photo of someone's Thanksgiving dinner, not something of this nature.

I can see for anyone who may have been thru combat or war that this would be a thread topic they might not want to look at; at least now people are prepared for what they might see. Also there are under 18 yr. old students who post on this site so maybe it would have been better posted in the NSFW section (although I don't think the photo itself is problematic as much as the title was misleading). Thanks for changing it.

mmaria · Dec 1, 2013

I liked your photo and I was glad seeing that kind of strong and meaningful story here. Ok? But....

Your previous title ruined the photo for me, I took it like mockery. That title had no respect for what you captured and yet in your post you acted differently.

As for the photo itself, I agree with Derrel.

Hope to see more from you!

Overread · Dec 1, 2013

Rags said:
2) Please lets keep clam and respectful to all people, not need to fight.... That said - we can disagree

3) The forums operate to a family friendly general policy (with the exception of the adult/nsfw subsection). Please note that content which is found to cross the line is either removed from view (if the user who started the thread isn't a subscribed members) or is moved to the nsfw subsection (if the user is a subscribed member and thus can continue to read the replies). I have a family and if children are in the room when adult topics are discussed, I send them out of the room. I honestly didn't think it was offensive.

But the title of the forum is PJ & sports. You might like to consider separating them, because some PJ as the title now suggests is for mature adults.

I'm new here and came because I like The_Travelers stuff. His street can be compelling and edgy and I think it should be.

If you as moderator think my stuff don't fit here I'll leave; no problem and I won't take offense

Rags

Disagreements are fine; by all means we don't expect everyone to agree on all topics; we just don't want fights to break out when there are disagreements.

As for the content suitability my point there was more to ensure that by changing the title I wasn't automatically attaching full mod approval for the content. What crosses the adult line on the site is decided by group agreement with the other mods and also by the admin. As such should it prove to be a problem (at present nothing's being said or reported at all) or a concern I didn't want to create a confused situation where it appeared that I'd already ok'ed it.

As for the subsections we try to limit how many we have as much as we can so that we can maximise the use of the sections whilst also keeping down the number so we don't get too many. If you feel we have enough content and that there is worth in splitting the sections start a thread in the "feedback" section down the bottom to raise the point (admin look at those threads more regularly).