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1 Apr 2009 - 2:43 PM

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csurry

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1 Apr 2009 - 2:45 PM

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What's the difference between quitting and just archiving or deleting some images?

So does the above also go for people that have a clear out without storming off in a huff?

uggyy

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1 Apr 2009 - 3:19 PM

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But they make the site more interesting and the threads on the boards come to life when the toys get thrown out the pram

StrayCat (e2 Member)

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1 Apr 2009 - 3:55 PM

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I have never complained about no comments, I never asked for any comments, and I believe you will find I checked the box years ago for no critique. I have said dozens of times on here that I would rather have a clean gallery; posting a couple images infrequently, so that's my philosophy on it. I'm not hiding anything, you know what I do, at least till my E2 runs out.


Quote: It's such a shame that those sort of threads, or click, or religion/war/politics create such enthusiasm when we could be having rich lively debate about photography.

Where?

uggyy

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1 Apr 2009 - 4:05 PM

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Quote: It's such a shame that those sort of threads, or click, or religion/war/politics create such enthusiasm when we could be having rich lively debate about photography.

Agree and I was being sarcastic only problem is when they become lively then peeps loose the plot and toys go flying again lol..

There is a lot info on the forums but not as often as I would like to see to be honest...

ade_mcfade

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1 Apr 2009 - 4:15 PM

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Quote: surely a rich lively debate about photography is a total contradiction of terms?

We've had a few good ones - stuff like overcooking post processing and HDR have had some milage, subject abuse is another one that's popular (do a search for lindesfarne - that usually get mentioned) and there's a couple on vision and originality that are ticking over at the moment.

I'd agree that kit discussions are pretty turgid, I usually hide those topics as fast as possible - I really don't care how the 5D fronts up to the D300, I'm more interested in what you put in front of them and how you go about making the photo!

I've been putting together a few Blogs on 4togsblog about photographters getting bogged down in subjects/kit and may start a thread on one of those subjects.

I've got a personal project called "Cliche Avoidance" going on at the moment which probably wouldn't get discussed at length in the forums, so I've not bothered with that yet... one day soon, maybe...

StrayCat (e2 Member)

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1 Apr 2009 - 4:33 PM

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"Cliche Avoidance" wouldn't last the day, it'd be locked. Someone could start another word association thread, or song association, or sit at the PC with water dripping on their forehead.

StrayCat (e2 Member)

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1 Apr 2009 - 4:52 PM

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I don't consider myself a serial quitter as such, but I do clean out my PF on a regular basis. The only time I wasn't on here every day was a couple times I had to send the PC out for service. I do refrain from posting at times, because it gets too personal, and I don't want to increase my medication just for that. I see Pete's point, but a perusal of the forum threads of the past week will give you some idea why we don't have rich photography discussions on here. To do that, we'd all have to leave, and you'd have to bring in all new members, because for us, photography leads to clicks and votes and critique, no critique, comments, no comments, awards, no awards......how many times can one get excited about that.

We can't even get excited about quantum physics, to some people's chagrin.