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No Naked People Allowed | [ via digital-photography-school.com, © James Brandon ] [ highlighted by maxwelld ]

This is a big one for me. One of the things I cannot stand about 500px is the amount of nudity splashed all over the place. Eventually I discovered you can turn a setting on which doesn’t allow nude content but that only filters out the images where the photographer actually takes the time and tags the image as a nude. So even with this setting turned on I still see nude inappropriate images when trying to browse through the otherwise brilliant selection of imagery. In my opinion (and I know there will be plenty who disagree) nude photography is not art, it’s borderline porn and having a girl take her top off seems like nothing more than a crutch for true creativity. You can have a mundane image of some girl but if you have her take something off then it shows up on the front page of 500px. Pretty shallow if you ask me. For this reason, my trips to 500px are very rare and usually only occur when following a link that somebody posts on twitter. My rule of thumb is that if I wouldn’t look at something with my wife sitting next to me, then there is no way to justify looking at it when she’s not. Sorry for the rant…

Anyways… Google+ doesn’t allow nude photos. It’s made very clear in their terms of service and violating Google’s TOS is not a good idea. With this rule and my point about hangouts: Google+ is a sanctuary for photographers with their clothes on. You can quote me on that.