Do you guys post on other photoboards/sites?

[Lachesis00]

I am just curious. I love to learn from other folks... this place is the best but you guys don't post much or enough to keep me busy.

I was wondering if you guys post photos in other places?

 

[DueyDooDah]

I sometimes post on www.phototakers.com but not often. It is a serious photog board and they are a bit clickish, but they have some great info and photos to learn from.

 

[handicap18]

I post over at nikonians.org, but there is far more traffic in general over here (at least compared to the topics I look at which are generally only the D50 forum, Nikkor forum and 3rd Party lens forum).

 

[Lachesis00]

I lurk on ILP.com but they too are a clickish group. Heaven forbid you are not perfect and all be dog gonned if you are not the Photoshop King/Queen ;( Makes me mad, I'd say 95-99% of the photos posted there are heavily photoshopped. And if your photos even remotely look like they are from a point and shoot-- forget it.

I asked the same questions there, as I did here and got not ONE reply I thought they were good questions (flash and lens).

I want a fun, friendly place that will teach me to be a better photographer.

 

[DueyDooDah]

I want a fun, friendly place that will teach me to be a better photographer.

If you find one, please let us all know.

 

[gruZ]

I have learned a lot from www.photography-on-the.net which is primarily a Canon forum, but all are welcome. Mid way down the page is a link to the actual forums. Very friendly with loads of very good advice.

 

[barrie]

I want a fun, friendly place that will teach me to be a better photographer.

Rachel - I check in at the Digital Photography School forums everyday. I've only posted a few times but folks there are very nice and I've learned tons from reading their posts.

 

[jann1033]

Rachel - I check in at the Digital Photography School forums everyday. I've only posted a few times but folks there are very nice and I've learned tons from reading their posts.

i made the mistake of posting a few times on there, mostly got totally ignored ( like on one thread every single other post one of the mods responded to but mine ) and got really blasted with not constructive criticism, just blatant meanness from a different moderator there when i asked for advice about a photo( that i might say when i asked the same ? here got lots of helpful advice) . it seems like a lot of them posted to some flickr site before and kind of had a "club" going...maybe not so much now that there are more posters there, this was one of the first weeks the forum was up and running...
so i figured they must not like my "kind" and due to my lack ofadoring verbal abuse i took all my posts off there .
i still occasionally read the newsletter wouldn't make the mistake of posting there unless i develop a rhino hide , i mean they honestly made me cry

 

[barrie]

i mean they honestly made me cry

That's awful!! I'm so sorry. I haven't had that experience there at all. The few posts I've made have gotten very nice responses and people have been pretty helpful. Although, I gotta say, no one is as nice as people on the Disney boards in my experience.

There are more than 1000 people over there now so maybe you're right in that the original group was cliquish and these newer follks are nicer. What a bummer though.

 

[jann1033]

That's awful!! I'm so sorry. I haven't had that experience there at all. The few posts I've made have gotten very nice responses and people have been pretty helpful. Although, I gotta say, no one is as nice as people on the Disney boards in my experience.

There are more than 1000 people over there now so maybe you're right in that the original group was cliquish and these newer follks are nicer. What a bummer though.

i saw that # in the newsletter but now i 'm chicken to attempt it

 

[zagafi]

I lurk on ILP.com but they too are a clickish group. Heaven forbid you are not perfect and all be dog gonned if you are not the Photoshop King/Queen ;( Makes me mad, I'd say 95-99% of the photos posted there are heavily photoshopped. And if your photos even remotely look like they are from a point and shoot-- forget it.

I asked the same questions there, as I did here and got not ONE reply I thought they were good questions (flash and lens).

I want a fun, friendly place that will teach me to be a better photographer.

Ugh, you mean "mommies with cameras"? That is the biggest bunch of lemmings I've ever encountered. I've gotten far better (and REASONED) responses here than I'd ever hope to get over there. If you post anything but a cookie cutter image, you'll either get ignored or blasted. Cutesy rules the day!

/rant

 

[zagafi]

betterphoto.com has been pretty helpful to me, but I only read and don't post. I've found lots of good info, though!

 

[YEKCIM]

I like www.dpreview.com. They have some excellent folks on their forums (as well as some jerks...) and I have benefitted greatly by the expertise of many of them. One very beneficial aspect of the forums, at least for me, is being able to see posted examples of pix taken with different cameras and lenses. This was very helpful in recent decision-making prior to major purchase.

~YEKCIM

 

[foto202]

I have learned a lot from www.photography-on-the.net which is primarily a Canon forum, but all are welcome. Mid way down the page is a link to the actual forums. Very friendly with loads of very good advice.

I post on this site. Very friendly and there are many good/great photogs there.

 

[Jeanne B]

These are my 3 but I don't always get to these boards every day like I do here on the DIS. Of the three, I find that steves-digicams has the friendliest folks (next to this board of course!! ).

www.dpreview.com
www.steves-digicams.com
www.pentaxforums.com

 

[jann1033]

Ugh, you mean "mommies with cameras"? That is the biggest bunch of lemmings I've ever encountered. I've gotten far better (and REASONED) responses here than I'd ever hope to get over there. If you post anything but a cookie cutter image, you'll either get ignored or blasted. Cutesy rules the day!

/rant

now i'm curious to see what lemming mommies with cameras look like

 

[zagafi]

now i'm curious to see what lemming mommies with cameras look like

Well, of course they all look alike!

 

[Gdad]

Besides dpreview which has already been discussed - I also post occasionally on Nikon Cafe, Digital Grin, Tampa Forums (Local forum w/ Art & Photo Section), and Skyscraper City (Work related- but has lots of Architectural Photography)

I truly do enjoy the DISboards as most of the others- particularly the 'serious photography' sites are way to stuffy and clickish for me.

 

[ukcatfan]

These are my 3 but I don't always get to these boards every day like I do here on the DIS. Of the three, I find that steves-digicams has the friendliest folks (next to this board of course!! ).

www.dpreview.com
www.steves-digicams.com
www.pentaxforums.com

You sound about like me. I read many of these, but almost never post. It is not that I do not think that I will be welcome; I just don't have the time to keep up with threads on too many places. I basically just read the ones with subjects that interest me. You cannot beat the group we have going here right now. Even though we do not always agree on things, it never seems to get hostile. We also do not seem to ignore people that browse over here from other boards. It does not hurt that many of us also lurk on other DIS boards. I usually avoid posting on the community board b/c it just moves sooooo fast. Posts move to the second page in a matter of minutes over there.

Kevin

 

[tinksdad]

I like Fred Miranda site. Lots of really great photos and work by some serious amateurs and pros as well. I lurk mostly, but have learned a bunch from the some of the posts.

I also check out the Strobist site and the Flicker accompanying site with several different groups.


Sorry to hear that you got a bad response Jann! Some of these guys/gals are pretty full of themselves.......