Hi! > Lon Williamson wrote: > > I refuse to be a member of PhotoNet because of how they denigrate, > in 35mm, anything "below" Nikon or Canon. Good Shots there, and > occasionally a good thread or two, but they are more anal than this > group. Here, there's steady reinforcement that grey matter rules. > In Photo Net, you get the feeling you have to spend $5000 to even start.
I have to say I agree with Lon. When I just started this spring, I thought of Photo.Net as of a great source. After all, as information source it is excellent. Then I thought that I'd post some of my photos so that people there critique me and this way I study. Usually they would come, see and just not react. Once they've started giving one of my photos some relatively high (to me) ratings, without saying a word. Just come, see, give a rating, done. So I switched to PhotoSig. There I was greeted with much more. Sometimes I couldn't get reasonably useful critique. But sometimes it was just excellent - they've pointed to my mistakes and I've learned. I still visit Photo.Net every now and then just to read news or look at some discussion/forum thread. Though perhaps with time I will abandon Photo.Net all together. All in all there is way too much snobbism there. At least these are my humble two cents. --- Boris Liberman www.geocities.com/dunno57 www.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=38625
