The Photography Forum - Your feedback wanted

I think creating a thread on what ever the user wants would be best. So if Raymond wanted to start his own thread including just his photos he can do that. Or if he wanted to make a new thread for each photography work he has done then let it be.

I don't think there needs to be a rule there, we just want people to share their work on our forums, and show it off for everyone to see without being strict. :)
 
Rojin said:
If the mods could crack down on threads that drift off topic and those of us who can start to generate more threads... who knows?
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We will certainly try but this your forums too so everyone can play their part in keeping the threads on topic.


We need a consensus on the competition as there is only one, but we can all try to do something with regards to thread creation and discussions? That's why I created the themed threads a while back, all we were doing was discussing what we could do but doing nothing! :)
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The competition is being discussed in another thread. My feeling is to start small and work the way up. If the first competition generates enough interest then you can thank about being a little more adventurous but making a star is better than none at all. :)

Burnsy2023 said:
Perhaps we should let the members decide what they might like to do and not be too prescriptive? Reading the thread it seems that having too many rules seems to be a root of the issue.
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Agreed.


5UB said:
I think creating a thread on what ever the user wants would be best. So if Raymond wanted to start his own thread including just his photos he can do that. Or if he wanted to make a new thread for each photography work he has done then let it be.

I don't think there needs to be a rule there, we just want people to share their work on our forums, and show it off for everyone to see without being strict. :)
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Agreed also.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
I agree also Raymond.

When you say let members create their own threads and own photos, do you mean like "Raymond Lin's Photo Thread" or purely on an ad-hoc basis?

I quite like the idea off seeing an individuals work in one thread.
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Well you could but that also doesn't mean you can't start a new thread on say a shoot you just done that you want its own thread.

There really shouldn't be any rules on how a thread starts.

I think that :-

Gear thread - Say Canon 50mm/1.4, and keep all the discussion of that lens in there, whether it is the tech talk or sample images. This functions as a resource, and resources is best when clearly labelled. Or Nikon D7000, or D800. Then the owners of those cameras can post their feedback on it, potential purchaser then have a knowledge data base for that camera. But it doesn't mean you can't start a thread say asking on the opinion of X product.

Art - let it be.

By all means if someone just started and say they want to start learning and want to use the forum to keep a record of their progress (to whatever time frame they want), they could start a thread call - X's journey into photography - any advice welcome. etc.

Or if someone who doesn't know certain terminology, start a new thread. I would probably click each new thread once, but not necessarily click on an existing thread with new post in so pigeon hole photo thread means new photos often won't get seen.
 
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Admiral Huddy said:
The competition is being discussed in another thread. My feeling is to start small and work the way up. If the first competition generates enough interest then you can thank about being a little more adventurous but making a star is better than none at all. :)
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Give the photograhy competition a monthly announcement when it begins in GD. :)
 
I certainly think that's the way forward [both you comments]. I've been lurking too long purely on the basis that everything has been "pigeon holed".

I think the photo comp is announcement in GD is an excellent idea providing it's ok with the other Dons/Admin team.
 
Absolutely fine, I could even go a step further and promote it on our Twitter/Facebook page, if it were needed.
 
That's a cool idea regarding the Facebook and Twitter accounts. In theory that would pull in a lot of activity.
 
King4aDay said:
The Post your picture here and assorted [PIC THREAD] threads need to go. And a streamlined, friendly-to-all, low barrier of entry photo comp would be good, but I said all this in the comp thread.
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This.

Threads for seperate photos (or sets of photos) so people can share and get critique makes a huge difference.

Hyburnate said:
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Why separate sub forums? All that does is stop people wandering into the thread and posting a comment. There just aren't enough photo threads to warrant a seperate forum.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
I agree also Raymond.

When you say let members create their own threads and own photos, do you mean like "Raymond Lin's Photo Thread" or purely on an ad-hoc basis?

I quite like the idea off seeing an individuals work in one thread.
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I think a mix may be the best bet. An individual thread for the user and then specific threads for whole sets (with links from the individuals thread). Stops lots of individual photo threads but keeps big sets of images visible to everyone as well. Personally I'd be more inclined to view specific threads rather than a person's individual thread, the same reason I rarely go into the PYPT. I don't know if others are like that though. People can make their own minds up what they want to do.
 
Just as an aside I posted a picture in a fresh thread today and to me the conversation that has taken place in it is exactly what we are needing more of good multi way constructive exchanges between posters.

Now we just need more people to join in and hopefully it will snowball.
 
GTRacer said:
I've posted a fresh thread full of photos and not a single reply (aside from the Fuji thread), so swings and roundabouts really. :p
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The reason I skipped your post the first time was the title didn't seem like it was something interested me. Just checked the post and yeah, I don't know anything about this type of photography, it doesn't do anything for me and I just don't think I could provide fair and constructive critique. I could try with some general technical stuff but really, you need input from someone who is passionate about the same genre.

Moreover, there are a lot of photos so it is very hard to provide critique, it takes a lot of time to analyze a single photo and report useful comments. I can't do that for a whole set. Putting 1-4 photos in a thread and asking I the title for C&C would help bolster replies I would think.

Alex posted a single photo which makes things easy. And I think many people like landscape and nature photos on this forum so more people provided feedback. I spend a lot of time self-critiquing my own landscape work so it is much easier for me to do the same analysis on another landscape photo.
 
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GTRacer said:
I've posted a fresh thread full of photos and not a single reply (aside from the Fuji thread), so swings and roundabouts really. :p
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Completely missed your thread as to be honest the title made no sense to me and now only just about does. I agree with what DP said it's not an area I'm confident in but I've tried to say what I think anyway and I always prefer a thread with a couple of pictures to get stuck into rather than a series.
 
GTRacer said:
I've posted a fresh thread full of photos and not a single reply (aside from the Fuji thread), so swings and roundabouts really. :p
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I can't really add anything to your shots I'm afraid GT, the subject matter (fashion) is something that just doesn't interest me hence why I've not commented.
 
D.P. said:
asking I the title for C&C would help bolster replies I would think.
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This ^^

Unless someone says they want Comments and / or Critique then i skip over the post without comment. Personally think it's bad etiquette to C&C unless it is asked for.
 
Some great replies, I'll address them here and then move on to my own thread in a bit.

D.P, Alex, and Columbo: I think that skipping over something because it doesn't interest you a valid reason, but not having enough knowledge or experience should never prevent someone from expressing their opinion on something. Having someone approach a set of photos that is very different from their own discipline is actually quite an eye opening experience since different genres will have their own aesthetic trends that can inform and shape other genres. Even having a complete novice critique a photo is a valid exercise in itself, as again, it's a fresh set of eyes looking at a photo and it's always interesting to see what people feel/think about a photo or set of photos.

With regards to the number of photos I posted, yeah I agree there were a bit much. Not much else to say really. My bad on the title too.

Sh4rkie: I think it's implicit that when someone starts a thread they're expecting some critique. I'm with Alex on that regard. I actually started the PYPH thread as a quick and easy way of posting an image or two without having the added stress of seeing the viewcount of the thread go up with no one seemingly replying.
 
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