Re: Best photography websites
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
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Boris, I feel the same about PhotoSig. What I like the best is the way the sort the data. I can compare images shot taken with a specific camera or film. Jeff. - Original Message - From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 7:33 AM Subject: Re: Best photography websites 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
RE: Best photography websites
I strictly use Photo.net to hunt for bargoons in their classifieds and for off the cuff info that I can't locate anywhere else - when that fails I turn to the newsgroups. My current favorite photography website is Usefilm (http://www.usefilm.com). It offers just what I need/want out of a site. Cheers, Dave 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.
Re: Best photography websites
On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 08:16 AM, Jeff wrote: Boris, I feel the same about PhotoSig. What I like the best is the way the sort the data. I can compare images shot taken with a specific camera or film. Jeff. But not, for some perverse reason, the lens! Otherwise a very nice site. Dan Scott
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http://www.photocritique.net/ http://www.photosig.com/ The two above are worth visiting. Dan Scott
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www.naturephotographers.net and www.photocritique.net are both excellent sites! DG At 10:30 AM 12/11/02 -0800, you wrote: When you say photography websites are you thinking just in terms of sites that discuss technique, or sites that include member galleries, or sites that go into great detail on equipment? I think there are almost too many to catalog. Photo.net is one of my favorites, mostly because technical information is included in the galleries. There are a lot of on-line galleries that don't include that. Photo.net's discussion groups can get a little aloof, especially when equipment is involved. Pentax is generally not well regarded there with respect to manufacturers. I ran across http://www.fredmiranda.com/ which has galleries aligned to monthly assignments, similar to PUG except there isn't the limitation on equipment and there's a bit more structure to the assignment. Take it for what you will. I'm sure there are other sites out there with similar purpose. Another favorite is http://www.abandoned-places.com/, but I haven't visited in awhile. Definitely for those interested in industrial grunge photography. I'll have to check out naturepix when I get a chance... t On 12/10/02 8:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops forgot to start it off. I like to go to http://www.naturepix.com/ just to check out the galleries once in a while Vic
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Though might not be the best site for most people, but I quite like the way this photographer captured people, as well as his Photoshop technique. http://www.pbase.com/circle/ regards, Alan Chan _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
Best photography websites
There are so many great photography Web sites around that are not strictly Pentax related. I'm wondering if we should put together a list of the users' favourite (non-pentax photography web sites Could be a good resource and we could certainly kill some serious time checking them out. Vic
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Oops forgot to start it off. I like to go to http://www.naturepix.com/ just to check out the galleries once in a while Vic
