I'm tempted to restart the competitions, discuss
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It is certainly less active than when the themes were at their most popular.
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I know this maybe going off topic,my apologies but do you think there was/is any reason for this? I'm asking in case there is anything we can do to attract more of an audience and attract more interest to the forum/competitions.
I'm fully aware of the fundamentals thank you.
Photography is about how you use the available light and how you apply your tools against it. I've just never let the sun dictate whether I can do photography or not, maybe you are different?
This was discussed before and I agree, get rid of the generic threads to force rope to post specific threads where they can receive direct feedback.
Fully agree. It needs to be gone asap.
You can get A photo by exploiting the available light but that is not how you take great photos!
Like every professional nature photographer the sun normally does indeed dictate whether any productive photo sessions are possible for a particular scene. To think otherwise is extremely naive.
To reiterate, yes if conditions for some things are poor you can always look for other possibilities and a good photographer can maximize the outcome for the given situation- but that doesn't make great works of art remembered for generations to come. Lighting is at the core of photography, and you can't control that outside, you can only plan and persevere.
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Who mentioned nature photography, I certainly didn't and are you trying to say you can't take 'great photos' at night?
Please get a room guys so we can keep this on topic
Columbo, DP
While I am one for discussion more than anyone I would like to keep this thread on topic.
Edit: BAH Beaten like a ginger stepchild.
Bah we finally get a discussion going on actual photography and you guys wade in a spoil it....
DP, Room booked see ya there!
We are having a comp once a month, once a quarter and bi-annually. We scoring via points and a poll vote.
Anyone can come and vote but we limiting it to certain people and there are themes for each comp but you can enter any shot you like.
I think that about covers it?
To name a few
Phate
Raymond Lin
MRK
42XX
King4aDay
The competition is too good..
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In 3 months it'll be a TPForum clone
We are having a comp once a month, once a quarter and bi-annually. We scoring via points and a poll vote.
Anyone can come and vote but we limiting it to certain people and there are themes for each comp but you can enter any shot you like.
I think that about covers it?
Correct.
Also the photo forum will have two sub forums; one where every image must have it's own thread and one where there is only one thread containing all images.
I think instead of having specific themes like circles, it'd be much better to have themes like, buildings, people, nature, water.
It would be something generic that most people have access to, then the discussion thread would be helpful to people to learn about techniques for capturing each subject rather then how artistic you are at perceiving a circle.
Would also be good to have an annual, best of year, competition that people vote on through December.
It would be something generic that most people have access to, then the discussion thread would be helpful to people to learn about techniques for capturing each subject rather then how artistic you are at perceiving a circle.
Would also be good to have an annual, best of year, competition that people vote on through December.