The New PhotographyMob Forums: What's a happening.

[Jason Manley]

We are in the middle of uploading the featured photgraphers galleries for the site here and thought we could at least open up the boards a bit.

The old photography forums on ca had a ton of great talent and good things happening. So much so that we have built a new forums and home for the photographers in the creative community.

The old forums are now archived here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=58

We will be organizing the old threads into this new forums as time goes on.

Please feel free to share your work and ideas and continue to do what you all do. This place would not be here, if not for you.


Jason

[John.D]

First, may I have the sad honour of having the legendary second post. Thank you, thank you, i'll take autographs later.

Now, as for the site, hooray! It's about time we had our own dedicated photography forum, bravo to the mods for creating one

[Morbid]

With the different sections there will be a lot more room for the photo forum to grow. The grey background is prefect for viewing photos, I'm going to explore the rest of the forum now, it's looking great! Thank you conceptart!

Edit: Would it be possible to have a personal photo threads section? Sort of like the sketchbooks section.

[davi]

Welcome everybody!

[John.D]

Thanks so much Davi. You continue to impress with your never-ending hard work and dedication. What would we do without you

[Jason Manley]

Originally Posted by Morbid

With the different sections there will be a lot more room for the photo forum to grow. The grey background is prefect for viewing photos, I'm going to explore the rest of the forum now, it's looking great! Thank you conceptart!

Edit: Would it be possible to have a personal photo threads section? Sort of like the sketchbooks section.

All set...one step ahead of ya. Is called:


THE DAILY PHOTO
Take at least one good photo every day. Join us and make progress with your work.

[Morbid]

Originally Posted by Jason Manley

All set...one step ahead of ya. Is called:


THE DAILY PHOTO
Take at least one good photo every day. Join us and make progress with your work.

I see, looks like you've thought of everything!
We'll se how many can keep up with posting a photo a day though!

Originally Posted by davi

Welcome everybody!

Thanks!!

[John.D]

Good thinking Jason. I think what Morbid was referring to though is more like the Sketchbook section over at CA, where we can have our own personal threads. The current sections are good, but obviously many photographers work changes as they progress and therefore would change category, if that makes sense.

[Jason Manley]

we can name it whatever....how would you propose the solution be handled?

[samsite999]

wow. I new things were happening for a wile now. But this color sceem is great, its going to work really well with the photos

thanks for every one's hard work on the new layout of the forum

just a few quick questions. Will are profials be ported over from the old forum? or are we going to be starting afresh?
i worked hard to get well over 1000 posts on the forum!

once again
Great work

[Morbid]

Now that I think about it maybe it's better without one. Because that would make it a lot like in the old forum where you have your own thread with all your work, instead of putting it in the different categories.
The old threads would get very heavy to load with maybe 50 photos on one page. And people don't comment much when there's so much work in one place. Better with just one or a few photos to discuss in a thread perhaps?

[DavePalumbo]

Awesome, great to see CA expanding! Just got some new photo gear, this gives me good motvation to start putting it to more consistent use

[davi]

everyones account SHOULD be ported over, but since this is a separate forum we are not transferring post counts.

[John.D]

Originally Posted by Morbid

Now that I think about it maybe it's better without one. Because that would make it a lot like in the old forum where you have your own thread with all your work, instead of putting it in the different categories.
The old threads would get very heavy to load with maybe 50 photos on one page. And people don't comment much when there's so much work in one place. Better with just one or a few photos to discuss in a thread perhaps?

Good thinking

As for the post count transferral, I personally would like a fresh start. A new forum, a new start. But I can definately understand how annoyed dedicated posters would be when they loose their count...

[samsite999]

ok then, last question of the night. I know you chaps are still working on the forum and there is a lot of tweaking to do yet......

What about the admin status of me, legab, umm there were some others as well

cheers
Sam

[John.D]

If we are going the route of no personal threads, and more category based threads, what about the people who have threads over at CA? I'm guessing the admins split up the thread into the correct categories, but I can imagine that being very awkward.

[klips]

I think the whole 'sketchbook' idea is cool, but it will also be nice to have a section for the really polished stuff . Here's my question: can we change the photos in our submission for the featured artists but? It's been a while since I entered it and I've got a fair few shots that are better than what I entered there.

EDIT: oh yeah, and how am I going to live without my post count? Noooooo!!!!!!!
*ahem*

[Asadex]

Surprise

[samsite999]

this lookes even better on my main Pc (not laptop)
I think its the nudge i been after to get me out of my lul. Time to post some new work

[purplerose]

*stunned face*

Cool!

[purplerose]

By the way, I think our old threads should stay in an archived section. It'll show a link to the past, but it would also force us to do new work and get away from that star rating system based on old work.

[Le Gab]

Originally Posted by klips

I think the whole 'sketchbook' idea is cool, but it will also be nice to have a section for the really polished stuff . Here's my question: can we change the photos in our submission for the featured artists but? It's been a while since I entered it and I've got a fair few shots that are better than what I entered there.

EDIT: oh yeah, and how am I going to live without my post count? Noooooo!!!!!!!
*ahem*

hehehe

[GriNGo]

2 things I like:

- I didn't have to re-register to get in these forums.
- I like the photography being separate from the concept art. Much more respect for each form of art. & the whole real deal of photography can be seen in the sections. It's not just point & click people (well maybe sometimes it is )

I'll be posting when I get the chance!

greetings,
GRiNGoLoCo

[ukanfoff]

rock on.

[Jessica Hook]

Originally Posted by Jason Manley

we can name it whatever....how would you propose the solution be handled?

How about making a new forum called "Scrapbooks" (like sketchbooks) for people's personal journies?

[ivy'sgrandkid]

urgh so confusing! lol I love the new look and feel but jesus kind of miss the freedom of having all photos in one place and then the sketchbook idea sheesh too much lol too much!

[ukanfoff]

hahahhaha

[purplerose]

lol, I thought the same at first, but the more I thought about it the clearer it got. I think the different categories can concentrate the comments/critiques better. It's a bit hard to critique a subject matter that you do not like. Often come across this a lot when getting critiques on macros and still life photos.

[Rhynome]

Wow, I'm in awe! I think I just had a happy tear of joy stream down my face.

I do like the different sections [which have long been a dream], especially the ones for scrapbooks and challenges, they're really the two main entities of the old forum, but now with these new categories maybe, just maybe, people will feel more inclined to post in them... maybe.

Ivy [Uh, William, right?] I'm sure you'll get used to it. After all, most of the old forum was just scrapbooks, then the occasional challenge that got lost in the flood of personal posts and everynow and then someone celebrating something, "ooh, I'm going to do professional photography, ladida, look at me!" and I'm sure I threw in some insults in the original quote. So now it's just a case of Scrapbooks for all of us, each an individual one that we can call our baby and cherish like it's our baby, and if you hurt my baby I'll cut you, photo Challenges that if you have the time to enter you must enter or the rest of us will lynch you, a lounge for threads like this and for the above quoted example, and lots of other shiny stuff for us to get sucked into.

I've been putting off taking photos recently, 'cos it's so damn dreary and I've had some other stuff to do, but now I don't think I have any excuse.
Thank you Jason, Davi and anyone and everyone else!

Group hug?


Oh, further more, of course it's entirely up to each person how they handle their threads, but maybe they could put at least some of their portraits and other 'specialist' photos also in their scrapbook? This way if we want to look at portraits and learn from portraits and appreciate portraits then we can go to the portrait section and have a concentrated dose of portraits, but if we want to look at, say, Asadex's photos, including [at least some of] the portraits then we can go to the scrapbook of Asadex, just a little suggestion for any of you guys who may not have been considering it.

As for the archived forums, what about the Rose's suggestion that we start anew? Or do the almighty powers that be want them transferred over for a specific reason?


It's my first post on this forum, and true to tradition it's about three pages long and overly rambling... I'm home!

[Morbid]

Some thoughts on the education/learning part of the forum...
I think the "Foundations in Film Photography" and "Foundations in Digital Photography" overlap too much. Film and digital are not that different. IMO the Film and Digital Foundations should be replaced by one general photography foundations category. Right now I don't know where to put threads that are not specific to the medium. The Darkroom section could be renamed Film photography and be about both darkroom tecniques and other film specific threads.