You mean those aren't simply red handsets connected to gray phone units?
Help me on this, folks. It seems that most of you expect at least some processing in Photoshop and there is no inherent bias against this...is that correct? If this is true, is it equally true for digital photos or those shot on film then scanned from negatives or prints? Is there a Photoshop ethos that someone can share with me? I hope to become expert in Photoshop, but I use it mainly as a digital darkroom, as I used to use chemicals, light and various manipulations to get the image I want on film or print.

thanks for your comments!
in deed this are only red handsets connected to grey phones. this shot was taken in budapest... even there german t-com is present with their specific kind of red... i did the ck to underline this fact, which is a bit confusing to me.

Amreicans don't know this, but Deutsche Telekom phones are grey with bright pink handsets. It's their corporate colors.

King, I don't believe there's an expectation of processing, but certainly an acceptance. The source and/or method of image acquisition is sort of irrelevant, because you MUST digitize the image to participate in Weekly Shot. May as well correct or enhance the parts you're not satisfied with.

King, I think the question of how far to take the post-processing is one every photographer must answer for themselves. Personally, I don't like isolated color, lomo-ize filters, fake tilt and shift, fake film border effects, HDR, etc. but I acknowledge that this is my own prejudice.

@king
here are more t-com phones ;)
http://www.weeklyshot.org/theme/phone/response/38/

cool composition - and great use of color.

Flatline, thanks for your helpful remarks.
Martin, thanks to you, too. "Tilt" and "shift" are view camera terms. Are you familiar with the view camera?
King

I understand these phones are naturally red and grey, but are you telling me that no selective desaturation was applied to this photo? Hard to believe, but if so, deserves even higher marks... Surly the walls and grafitti had some color, no?

@tommy
as i wrote above: this is of course a colourkey (which is selective desaturation), i used it to underline the fact, that german telekom with the specific red colour is everywhere on the world, which is screwing me up a bit.
so don't worry ;)

simple and effective, really like it, well done !!