1. The User can use the Portal and it’s free of charge. When the User have been registered the ‘Debutant’ status is being given and 2 photographs a week can be published in the Inferia.

2. Free registration is the only requirement to use the Portal. The registration is complete when all details have been given and accepted by the Portal’s Team. All necessary registration data are listed in the Registration Form.

3. All Portal’s Terms and Conditions must be accepted by the User.

1. The new User has to wait for acceptation of certain amount of photographs accepted in the Low Gallery (in this case: 5 photographs) or write analyses, which will be accepted as valuable by the User with higher status (5 recommended analyses). After the User is promoted to ‘Adept’ status and can rate the photos. When promoted to Amateur (20 photos in the Low Gallery) the amount of available slots can be increased by active voting in the Inferia (40 votes is equal to 1 slot, maximum 2 bonus slots a week).

2. If the User would like to increase the possibilities of the account by adding more files every week, there is an option to join Fotoferia Club as regular member what would unlock additional features and give more options than the standard account. Write to club@fotoferia to get more information.

The Inferia

This section functions as a waiting-room, the photographs are being added anonymously without an voting option. The Users (apart of ‘Debutants’) decide if the photographs can be published in the Low Gallery. 40 different Users decide of moving the photograph to the Low Gallery or Dark Room, and the power of their votes depends on the User’s status:

ART – 3 points

PRO – 2 points

Photographer – 1 point

Amateur – 0.5 point

‘Publish’ option adds positive points, ‘Not Publish’ adds negative points. When the votes are given by 40 Users the photograph goes to the Low Gallery (the sum above zero) or the Dark Room (the sum beyond zero). If the photo gets +50 points it goes to the Low Gallery, if it gets -50 points  goes to the Dark Room.  In case the photograph’s level isn’t high enough or the published photo breaches any point of the Portal’s Terms and Conditions, the Fotoferia Team can decide to move the photograph to the Dark Room without voting or even deleting the photo from the Gallery. If the voting is not completed within 3 days the Fotoferia Team has a right to move the photo to the Low Gallery/Darkroom regardless current score.

The Low Gallery (LG)

After the positive voting in the Inferia, the photo is being published in the Low Gallery and it stays anonymous for the next 24 hours. The first selection will be good enough from the photo’s artistic and technical point of view. The Team reserves the right to verify the User’s decision by moving the photograph to the Dark Room and also the Users can decide that the voting was mistaken by giving the black feria (star).

The High Gallery (HG)

The Portals Assisting Team work on the photographs selection to the High Gallery. Every proposition must be confirmed by 5 members of the Team.

The Dark Room

Here are photographs which have been rejected after voting. The photos are not good enough, sometimes they may need some corrections and they didn’t get much interests. The User can delete the photograph from the User’s Panel (Portfolio Settings). If there is an analysis under the photo, removing it from the Gallery is not possible. The way to delete the photograph is to contact the Portal’s Team by e-mail: admin@fotoferia.pl. All photos with the best and valuable analysises will be saved for the other Users seeking for knowledge in this subject. Photographs rated as valueless for the Portal, will be deleted by the Team if the User will not decide of it before that. The photo in the Dark Room can be set up as anonymous.

Contra

Contra – this is the Gallery where you can find photographs from the borderline of the Dark Room and the Low Gallery. Here are photographs which have caused contradictories in the User’s opinions, controversial photos, where the interesting, didactic conversation took place. What’s the mechanism of adding the photographs to the Contra? Every interested User, with the ‘Photographer’ status at least, may use the option “Add To Contra” (in the Dark Room or the Low Gallery). 3 votes will give a sign to the Moderating Team and they will decide if the notified photo will be moved to the Contra.

Anonymity in the Inferia

How to get promoted here?

Why can’t I vote?

How to rate?

Yes, it is. Constructive analyses will be promoted. The valuable ones will be displayed on this main page.

Carrying of the Portal’s high level any expression of User’s reciprocal adoration will be deeply observed and in case of unfair voting the photograph will be moved to the Dark Room. This thing also works the other way: the photograph can be moved from the Dark Room in the same case or other reasons, for example: there was many disputes and the amount of positive and negative votes was quite same. 

Why did I get a warning?

The Team has decided that the User’s activities are contrary with the Portal’s rules. The warning can be given for:

lack of personal standards

publish photographs beyond the limit of good taste

harmful activities to the Portal unobjective voting.

The photograps in the Low Gallery are sufficiently good as a result of objective voting. Every User with its vote decides of the Low Gallery level. The photograph with poor quality, family one, popular sunsets, photos of flowers, animals shouldn’t be voted to LG.

The photo can be added when the User is logged in. To do so you need to click on the “Publish a Photo” bookmark. The chosen file with the maximum dimensions of 1200x1200 pixels (the first dimension is width and the other one hight) and size of no more than 1000 kB. In case of panoramic photographs the dimensions are bigger: 1800x900 pixels, size up to 1000 kB. While publishing the photo the details such as: title and category are necessary! When the photo has been uploaded you need to go to your Portfolio, edt the photo  and publish the photo by pressing “Publish in the Inferia”. 

You can add photographs to the categories when any element wasn’t added, cloned, moved or deleted. They should express the real image seen by the photographer. In the “Nature” category we classify landscape, fauna, flora (as macro), excluding human’s activity and presence. In the “Landscape” category retouching is allowed and can consist deleting (stempled out) elements which don’t substantially change the photographed place, for example: deleting pylon. However adding elements from different sources is treated as photomontage.

Allowable action as follows:

- change of the exposition

- corrections of colour, contrast, saturation

- removing dirt from the matrix n

- noise reduction

- removing flare

- cropping

- alignment

- horizontal reflection

- change of size

- HDR

No, you can’t. The Fotoferia is photographic gallery, where the Team cares about high level of resented works. It’s not the place for hosting photos, so before you decide to upload your photo, think of its positive aspects. Photographs with trifling value, insufficient technical level will be removed from the gallery by the Team.

Until the photo hasn’t been published in the Inferia but it’s only visible in the author’s private portfolio (it’s ready to publish) or it was moved to the Dark Room without getting any analysis, the author can delete it. If photograph was published in the Inferia, Low Gallery or High Gallery, the author can’t delete it from its profile level. You can find more details on this in the Terms and Conditions.

It is possible to edit: title, description, background colour, information about equipment, but it’s impossible to edit the file itself..

In particular cases, on User’s request the administration can change the nickname.

No, it isn’t. The Fotoferia’s Administration has the User’s best interest in mind and high level content, tries to avoid promoting photos from additional accounts. If this happens, these accounts will be deleted and the User’s main account could be blocked for an indefinite period.