Just how is talk photography so successful??

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OK, I have been a member here since April 09 when I bought my first DSLR and was recommended to here by one of the mods whom I knew from a golfing forum... (Hacker.......)

Yep, I love the place, but being broad and open minded I thought I would check out a few other similar fora? (forums?) some of which may or may not be affiliated to certain photographic magazines you can pick up at your local Tesco's every month for round about £4.

Similar categories of sections - i.e. Landscape / Portraits etc (one did have a clever idea of having manufacturer specific threads - guess it removes the Canon v Nikon debate to an extant) however......

"there is one other user online"

and most recent post in a section from about 3 months ago......... unlucky on here if it's 3 hours ago.....

So at the risk of a severe modslap can anyone recommend other good togger forums* for those of us who like to broaden our horizons a bit more?

Just intrigued as to those who have so much free marketing available to them, cannot get people online???????




* I promise to stay loyal and faithful to here......... and this will always be #no 1.....
 
OK so that wasn't the most helpful post I've ever made, but truthfully I haven't found another site yet.
 
Only one really .....


If you find any Ill share with ya......


MD
 
Agree with all the posts above. Heard good things about POTN, but never ventured to look further.

This is the one and only i'm affraid you'll have to get used to us all :p
 
Am I allowed to say?....

I look at photo.net but don't post. There are some amazingly talented photographers over there.
 
maddog.mark said:
OK so that wasn't the most helpful post I've ever made, but truthfully I haven't found another site yet.
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Better than mine... LOL



I have searched a few times and found nowt worth joining IMHO



MD



I like it here but sometimes which I could get some different views on my work...
 
there are no other forums. well..there are, but most of your photographic needs can be serviced here...and we have the best mods..and admin..and by far the best members.
 
matty said:
there are no other forums. well..there are, but most of your photographic needs can be serviced here...and we have the best mods..and admin..and by far the best members.
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Consider yourself told:rules:
 
Mark - no neither have I - whilst TP is pretty much fantastic, I thought there must be some other good ones there, and if I can learn from somewhere else as well , pick up additional thoughts from other people, or maybe even offer advice, then so much the better, but so fat nothing really..........

Just amazes me, that mags obviously have a good £ of cash, free advertising etc etc, but end up with a crap online forum...........
 
redmonkee said:
I'll be honest I find Fredmiranda.com to be excellent. Though it is mainly US photographers on there so getting C&C on cricket images is difficult :thinking:

The review section on there is my first place of call when buying a new lens.
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Been there but could not get on with it ....

Might try it again...!!!!!



MD
 
OK - I'll go hide under the garden shed then Matty...............:lol:

As i said though yeah the mods here are :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs: (well most of 'em) :lol::lol::lol:

TP just seems to have taken the photographers forum thread by storm hich in itself is a huge :thumbs:, just wondering why the so called mags and their forums are a pile of poo.......
 
Lynton said:
OK - I'll go hide under the garden shed then Matty...............:lol:

As i said though yeah the mods here are :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs: (well most of 'em) :lol::lol::lol:

TP just seems to have taken the photographers forum thread by storm hich in itself is a huge :thumbs:, just wondering why the so called mags and their forums are a pile of poo.......
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As said MEMBERS.........

We have a fantastic core though out.. IMHO


MD
 
I use several other forums and gallery sites but they are more specific, ie camera or subject/type of photography specific.

The reason's I come here so much are:

A - Less brand snobbery than elsewhere
B - people actually talk and respond to threads within an hour usually, not a week or more as it is with some other forums.
C - Huge variety of topic's/galleries/subjects
D - Forum format, I like easy to use linear formats, some other good forums are spoilt by the actual forum format and layout (DP review for instance)
 
redmonkee said:
I'll be honest I find Fredmiranda.com to be excellent. Though it is mainly US photographers on there so getting C&C on cricket images is difficult :thinking:

The review section on there is my first place of call when buying a new lens.
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Completely agree, I started on FM and found the level of photography to be amazing but I moved away for the reasons Red said too many yanks and to much baseball etc.
Worth a look but you will come back..

Pete
 
18-270 said:
I heard they kill and eat Nikon users!
I have that on good authority from "almost died one legged Dave" a mate of mine who tried!
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They tried to, once ;)
 
Just received an order from TP's mods for a concrete overcoat for Lynton daring to suggest Members also looked at other sites!
 
My worry is the huge revelations that a)Hacker is on another forum and b)plays golf. I mean - it's a perfectly good walk in the countryside ruined.

It is ok though - I am sure he is only in it to play with his balls :naughty:

On a serious note - i think matty hits the preverbal nail on the head - it is the superb people that make this forum simply great - the combined knowledge, skill and personalities make it a great place to be :love: :thumbs:
 
This is the first one i log onto, some magazine forums are much slower to load, are not popular for some reason and their php forum software or whatever is cheap !!
I like Photography Monthly magazine it's very good, i put foward an idea for an article that was researched and published about higher altitude photography but their forum is at a trickle, shame really because the gallery must have 100 or so submissions everyday for various competitions.
 
I'm a member of POTN but rarely venture there after I joined here.

I find Wild About Britain useful for wildlife stuff and there is a photography section on there but here is better for the photography side of things.
 
the only other forum i really use is naturephotographers.net, some outstanding photographers on there.

I used POTN for a long time but got fed up with it as it became very americanised and got minimal response to threads and questions (apart from a few good eggs)

Then Tony (KIPAX) Pointed me over here :D
 
I've never been anywhere else....

I started an A-level in photography last September, and I always went to my tutor for critque and advice... He said try going on a forum for a wider variety of opinions.
So I got home from college, typed in 'photography forum' into google... And up popped talkphotography... I spent 10 minutes browsing then signed up! I've never looked anywhere else!

It's a great forum though... The mods are great, plenty of members for quick information, theres always good banter going on too!
 
I'm on Nikonites, but under a different username, still post in here more though :thumbs:
 
I found out about TP because every time I searched for something photography-related, the best results were always TP! After about the twentieth time that happened, I decided to sign up and lurk for a year or so.. I've only recently started posting :-)

I guess the format is good, the traffic is great and there's a great balance of members. Plus the right amount of "heated discussions" - not so many so it's boring, but enough to stop things from getting stale. Never underestimate the ability of "heated discussions" to keep people around!

I do frequent another photographer forum, but it's a closed women-only forum made up of mostly US child photographers who all met originally via a completely unrelated site and we became good friends. Not exactly competition for TP!
 
I like it here because so so many of us including me can't take a picture for toffee but we enjoy trying. Every day in every way we are getting better.;) it also allows us legitimately to empty our pay pal and banks accounts on something black / or creamy with black bits:lol:

Merc the pennyless
 
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As I mostly use rangefinder cameras I have found Rangefinderforum quite useful in the past, especially recently as I am upgrading my kit. As rangefinders come from many brands in all price brackets there doesn't seem to be any snobbery; probably the reverse when someone discovers how well a cheap Russian lens can perform on an M8 or something!

Cheers
ped
 
Call me a tart :razz:, but I've tried a few other photo forums both before and since joining here, and apart from chassimages.com (a french forum) and photo.net, I remain faithful to Talk Photography.
On the french forum they are total gear heads and the crit is ruthless, and I find the forums on photo.net are too large and the layout confusing, but I do go and drool over images I suspect I'm not even good enough to look at, let alone ever be able to take!!!! :shake:
For all people moan about how big TP has got and how many members there are, there is a core of regular members of a manageble size, so you can get to know who's who and what's what. Even the mods all have personalities (even though some of them are certainly defective) and are not just faceless beasts who decend from on high to deliver bans at the slightest provocation :D

I love it here and find the mix of Pro and Am (and just plain trying) just right :thumbs:

Tara

OOh, when did I get my feet under the table? Normally they are on top ;)
 
TP is an example of what a forum should be about, a good mix of everything :)

not so bland that users don't bother with it, likewise not so heated that users get turned away

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