Please post more pictures!

Note: this post is definitely not written as a moderator. The moderator's job is to make sure that DPR's rules are followed. This post has nothing to do with that.

This forum is home to a lot of technical discussions. Noting wrong with that; it's a gear forum, after all. Many of you post images, either in the weekly show and tell thread, or in threads that you start yourselves. That's good, too.

However, not everybody participates. This is a post to encourage more of you to post your images, and to encourage those who post their images to post more (10 or fewer per post, please).

Why do that? Here are a few reasons:

• To show others what you're working on, what you like, and who you are.
• To build a stronger community of photographers.
• To serve as a basis for asking questions and soliciting input that might improve your photography.
• To let others know where you're coming from when you post technical questions or remarks.
• To make the forum more attractive to those -- I know you're out there -- who are put off by technical minutia.

If you don't want to post images, that is your right. But I wish more of you would.

Comments are more than welcome.

Jim

Thanks, Jim! I'll start it off with a sort of funky one I just took, from near your neck of the woods, Woodlawn Cemetery in Colma, CA.

Mamiya 7 80mm Rollei 400 IR (72 filter) in Pyrocat HD

Thanks, Jim, I agree and I will. I am 86 and a retired mechanical engineer, but I admit I am sometimes snowed with technical aspects posted here. Don’t stop (I sometimes get it).
Great place to visit, a great site.

Dave in NJ

Absolutely! More images is good.

I would personally be keen to see more participatory theme type threads, anything along the lines of Greg's recent Neighbourhood Walk thread - just a loose basket in which to house a set of images and somewhat connect each set within the thread. I tried one not too long ago with the Six within Ten idea.

Anything to get us talking about actual images and what makes a particular image work more, or less, well. Something where positive as well as 'constructive', or even negative, feedback is equally welcome.

Maybe we shy away from this kind of discussion because it is more challenging to approach (than technical concepts and comparisons)?

...post images online w/o them looking greatly degraded---the prolix 2 word term that replaces the more succinct 4 letter one. Here and on another forum the posted images have looked utterly different than what's on my monitor. Also, I maintain that you really can't see the "juice" of medium format unless it's under very controlled conditions, which are definitely not guaranteed here.

Also, my pro work I can't post by contract, and my personal work will have most people here go "Huh?", so not much point in showing them. And then there's the scary thing that happened to me when someone came millimeters away from stealing the concept behind a project I've been working on since about 2005, which I saw in a gallery booth at the AIPAD photo show in NYC some years ago. I had communicated with the person in question in a friendly way as we were on parallel tracks with subject matter, then saw work in the show that veered way into my lane. Thankfully not totally, but it was a scare. Since then I have been extremely reticent to post anything online.

But I get where you're coming from. And your images look great online, although I know they'd look far better in person at the correct sizes.

I am new to medium format (~3 mos.) & fairly new to photography overall (~5 years). I read this forum almost daily, for both the technical discussion & the photographs, and have benefited from it tremendously (e.g. I cued in on the GF35-70 as an outstanding value based on comments here).

One thing I've been wondering: some people respond to your weekly call for photos in that thread, whereas others post photos as independent, new threads. What do you prefer? Is there some guidance for doing one vs. the other?

Thanks very much to you & the other moderators for your contributions to this forum.

Fleegix said:

I am new to medium format (~3 mos.) & fairly new to photography overall (~5 years). I read this forum almost daily, for both the technical discussion & the photographs, and have benefited from it tremendously (e.g. I cued in on the GF35-70 as an outstanding value based on comments here).

One thing I've been wondering: some people respond to your weekly call for photos in that thread, whereas others post photos as independent, new threads. What do you prefer?

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As a moderator, I have no preference. As a forum member, I think recent single images find their natural home in the weekly show and tell thread. Many images with a theme or that are likely to provoke discussion could do well in their own thread.

Fleegix said:

Is there some guidance for doing one vs. the other?

Thanks very much to you & the other moderators for your contributions to this forum.

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It's a pleasure.

JimKasson said:

Fleegix said:

I am new to medium format (~3 mos.) & fairly new to photography overall (~5 years). I read this forum almost daily, for both the technical discussion & the photographs, and have benefited from it tremendously (e.g. I cued in on the GF35-70 as an outstanding value based on comments here).

One thing I've been wondering: some people respond to your weekly call for photos in that thread, whereas others post photos as independent, new threads. What do you prefer?

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As a moderator, I have no preference. As a forum member, I think recent single images find their natural home in the weekly show and tell thread. Many images with a theme or that are likely to provoke discussion could do well in their own thread.

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Is it "accepted" to post photos not taken recently (like on or two year) in the “weekly show” ? Because I usually don't have time to take photo in working period (meaning a big part of the year).

Z

zorgtool said:

JimKasson said:

Fleegix said:

I am new to medium format (~3 mos.) & fairly new to photography overall (~5 years). I read this forum almost daily, for both the technical discussion & the photographs, and have benefited from it tremendously (e.g. I cued in on the GF35-70 as an outstanding value based on comments here).

One thing I've been wondering: some people respond to your weekly call for photos in that thread, whereas others post photos as independent, new threads. What do you prefer?

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As a moderator, I have no preference. As a forum member, I think recent single images find their natural home in the weekly show and tell thread. Many images with a theme or that are likely to provoke discussion could do well in their own thread.

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Is it "accepted" to post photos not taken recently (like on or two year) in the “weekly show” ?

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Sure!

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Because I usually don't have time to take photo in working period (meaning a big part of the year).

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Hi,

Well, I have nothing to post. I haven't shot even one single frame in the last 12 months. Meaning, my P645D, the only MF camera I have.

My reason for even having it was the lighthouse series. And that was to produce those quilt blocks. That was back in the heart of Covid so I had something to do and keep that persnickety printer going while we had no retail customers.

I finished that series just in time for things to pick back up otherwise. And now other lighthouses are ever further away and no time to take the 2 or 3 trips to each one before I capture what I have in mind.

Maybe after I retire. I think this whole 6G cellular project I am doing might be my last big project. These New Generations have to be installed in the field in strategic places years before we will let y'all have any use of them.

So, there goes all my time and a very large bag of money. But it comes back and then I can resell the equipment as the next gen goes public. I'm always one gen ahead here. Hopefully, I won't have to get into 7G as I slide out of 6G.

My other shooting isn't MF. It's APS-C and H or even a cell phone cam. And the subject matter is totally boring.





Here is one using big fat components the cell cam can see and I didn't need to resort to the copy stand and macro lens. Or even smaller and I needed the microscope and it's cam...

Who wants to see crap like this? Only the folks who pay me to figure out why this happened.

So, maybe later for pics here.

I had dumped all my lighthouse shots from the gallery prior to the shutdown. I suppose I could put them back.....

But they certainly aren't recent.

Stan

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Amateur Photographer
Professional Electronics Development Engineer

Bags27 said:

Thanks, Jim! I'll start it off with a sort of funky one I just took, from near your neck of the woods, Woodlawn Cemetery in Colma, CA.

Mamiya 7 80mm Rollei 400 IR (72 filter) in Pyrocat HD

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That is a cool shot. I'm going to go dig out some cemetery shots I took in NY back when I first got the GFX system.

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Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas

Not medium format but graveyards and infra red seem to go together.

Bags27 said:

Thanks, Jim! I'll start it off with a sort of funky one I just took, from near your neck of the woods, Woodlawn Cemetery in Colma, CA.

Mamiya 7 80mm Rollei 400 IR (72 filter) in Pyrocat HD

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Taken back in 2019 with the 50r

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Garrison, NY - St Philip's Church & Cemetary (1770). 55mm w GF 32-64. ISO 100, F8

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Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas

Hi,

Hey! I know that place. I have relatives there. But, then, heck. I have relatives in just about every graveyard there is in the mid Hudson valley from Bear Mt to Kinderhook. And on both sides of the river.

Stan

Thanks for post Jim. Look forward to this generating some awe. Will make greater efforts to post more photographs and comment when people post photographs.

Is there any trick to posting full size files? Somethings when trying to post I get a a little blue (think blue) upload wheel that never stops.

Valued Customer said:

Thanks for post Jim. Look forward to this generating some awe. Will make greater efforts to post more photographs and comment when people post photographs.

Is there any trick to posting full size files? Somethings when trying to post I get a a little blue (think blue) upload wheel that never stops.

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Compress them to 30 MB or so and you should be OK unless your internet connection is slow.

Because I have a 4 month old baby and just moved to a new home and there's so much to do! Hopefully as things settle down I'll get back out shooting. It's great seeing everyone else's work in the meantime.

Baby pics!
Congratulations.

I like that. So here’s something I had on my iPad, straight from the Phocus app, hoping it holds up:



Not my baby, but shot with one of mine…

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