Have You Ever Clicked "Gallery" ?

The gallery is a public space and some restriction for the number of photos that can be posted daily seems quite reasonable to me and make the place appealing and comfortable for everybody. I do prefer to see 100 photos each one from a different member than 100 from the same ... but that's just my personal taste. I do post 1 photo, at least, each day and I find it an helpful exercise when it comes to choosing and selecting photos but, then again, it's just my taste!
About the Weekly picks I don't think it's - as it is now - any sort of competition but it's a different way to approach the gallery (read photos posted that week), and it's by the point of view of other members (sometimes I realized that I was going to miss or undervalue some great shot).
Just my 2 cents,
ciao
 
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RayPA said:
But Ruben has uploaded photos to the Gallery. 😕
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that is what confused me also - i know i watched rubens photos before in his gallery.

also i noticed that in last few months photos have less views than they had when i became member. maybe the reason for that was the zeiss ikon competition that was going on that year so everybody was more into galleries.
 
I ever knew there is a RFF Gallery, and accessed it.

But the link "Gallery" at the front page I happened to ignore, I don't know why or how. I think I was too used to access others pics through the Random Gallery at the front page, and afterwards when it dissapeared I was in a kind of limbo, accessing particular photographer through the "My Gallery" at the end of the posts.

The important think for me is that this front page is very well designed and I am extremely happy to have found it.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
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This is a great thread, and I commend Ruben for starting it. Perhaps his inner prosecutor will recommend a light sentence! 😉

Although I've been visiting the Gallery off of the main page, not to mention uploading to it fairly often, I had not paid attention the filters until Jon mentioned them in response to Ruben's post.

I am in the process of reorganizing my gallery photos into albums, and also re-thinking how I've been uploading photos. While I think the daily limits on uploads are reasonable, I am coming over to the thinking of Nico and others that one should limit oneself to one upload at a time, or per day. I've learned the hard way that, when I upload 3-4 photos at a time, only the last upload of the group is displayed on the page w/ "recent photos." Like a lot of other posters, I really appreciate comments (and not just positive) on individual photos, so by uploading more than one at a time I may have actually discouraged folks from viewing, let along commenting, on my shots (of course, they may have seen them and ran screaming from the room).

So I think there's some good advice being offered in the posts above, as well as encouragement to make better use of the Gallery resource we already have at this site. And, again, hats off to Jon and the others who make the Weekly Pics such a worthwhile thread!
 
back alley said:
for all concerned with the lack of photos, when was the last time you clicked on my flickr link, or anyone elses for that matter?
when was the last time you left a comment on someone's photos?

some claim that a forum is nothing without it's members and that the members do most of the contributing and make a forum what it is.
what have you contributed lately? i mean besides complaints?
joe
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Joe I'm not sure that anyone in this thread has really made a complaint have they? From what I can gather, and certainly the intended vibe of my post in this thread, is that this is a thread thats commending and giving praise to the gallery, its users and the people that make it available to us. There is a general discussion within this about whether the users, rather than mods or head honcho, should think about restricting their daily uploads but I think most agree its not the be all and end all, simply an idea for the gallery users to think about.

I have a Flickr link in my sig and have no idea how many people click on it to have a look, probably not many. I tend to click on peoples RFF links simply because I'm using this site at the time. If they don't have an RFF link I will probably follow whatever link they do have, incl personal websites. In all honesty though I tend to do this when I've seen an image in the gallery that I like and I wish to see more of their photographs. Sometimes they'll refer to an image of theirs in a thread and suggest I take a look and I will.

I don't wish to troll, flame or any other internet phrase that I don't quite understand - I just wondered why you felt this was relatively negative when I thought it was a very positive thread.

If I've missed a negative post or misunderstood your post ( very possible after a long day at work!) I apologise.

Cheers
 
OurManInTangier said:
Joe I'm not sure that anyone in this thread has really made a complaint have they? From what I can gather, and certainly the intended vibe of my post in this thread, is that this is a thread thats commending and giving praise to the gallery, its users and the people that make it available to us. There is a general discussion within this about whether the users, rather than mods or head honcho, should think about restricting their daily uploads but I think most agree its not the be all and end all, simply an idea for the gallery users to think about.

I have a Flickr link in my sig and have no idea how many people click on it to have a look, probably not many. I tend to click on peoples RFF links simply because I'm using this site at the time. If they don't have an RFF link I will probably follow whatever link they do have, incl personal websites. In all honesty though I tend to do this when I've seen an image in the gallery that I like and I wish to see more of their photographs. Sometimes they'll refer to an image of theirs in a thread and suggest I take a look and I will.

I don't wish to troll, flame or any other internet phrase that I don't quite understand - I just wondered why you felt this was relatively negative when I thought it was a very positive thread.

If I've missed a negative post or misunderstood your post ( very possible after a long day at work!) I apologise.

Cheers
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perhaps i need to re-read the entire thread again.
i saw a couple of what looked like smart ass remarks, those under the wire kind of low key comments that really piss me off and that might have been the trigger.

i also thought that people make so many complaints about this site and make so many suggestions about how to 'improve' things here and i wonder how much attention to detail they pay before making recommendations.

i admit to being short tempered around here lately.
that whole exodus thing was a turn off, being bad mouthed by people who then return here after exodus closes down and either pretend nothing nasty was said or happened & continue to complain after proving they know nothing about moderating a forum.

i have been doing this for many years now and some of the people here are getting harder and harder to take.

i appreciate the tone of your post, it's refreshing to deal with an honest and direct person as opposed to those who offer only cheap shots.
joe
 
I hear the clashing of knitting needles

I hear the clashing of knitting needles

I only load images in the gallery for the sake of lens/film comparisons all made at the same shoot, so others might see the 'look' of particular lens or film. I save my 'art' for my own web page.

If I am testing 3 lens I try to limit the space to five images per lens, the maximum upload. A couple of days ago I started my upload of new landscape shots done with a 28 Biogon @$700, a 3.5 Summaron @$200, and a 24 Zuiko @$80, but so far they aren't listed in any daily sequence in the gallery. I think I'm wasting my time. I plan to revamp my web page and move the whole performance over there.

Limiting me to 1 picture a day shoots the whole idea down. RFF is becoming more a club of old ladies and hobbyists than something useful to dedicated photographers.

Clearly my interests don't match those of others here. It's time to move on.
 
Dektol Dan said:
RFF is becoming more a club of old ladies and hobbyists than something useful to dedicated photographers.
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What the sense of this statement? what the contribution to the discussion?
may you explain better please?
cheers,
M.me Nico
 
back alley said:
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i also thought that people make so many complaints about this site and make so many suggestions about how to 'improve' things here and i wonder how much attention to detail they pay before making recommendations...........

joe
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Not only I happened to ignore the "Gallery" link, but also some posts in which Stephen said the Random Gallery will not come back.

Clicking on the Gallery link and viewing the first page provoked in me a great pleasure, which I state here for the fourth time (twice before on this thread, once on the Kettle thread, and now). It is very well organized and designed. So I guess this is a great score for the management.

On the other hand the people around the weekly picks, are maintaining the dish hot, and are an example of good initiave by the workers.

Management and workers hammering each one towards the same target - this is the wining formula. Stephen has been very wise in sounding public opinion regarding imagery and how to improve it, and even more wise in skipping some erroneous posts.

RFF has turned very wide, varyied, crowded for good with many new features. People get confused, and will continue. We all will learn from our mistakes and push this great website forwards.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
Dektol Dan said:
but so far they aren't listed in any daily sequence in the gallery. I think I'm wasting my time.
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Have you looked into creating Albums within your personal Gallery space?

I have many Albums including 'After Dark', 'Dire Straits', and 'With People'. We all organize our photos differently: so you may have '28mm lenses', '35mm lenses' and so on.

Try clicking on 'RFF Gallery' in my signature below and see how it works, then perhaps you can make the Gallery work for you in the way that you want it to.
 
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ruben, i do appreciate your positive contributions to rff, honestly.

it's hard, in one post or even a thread, to single out the complainers from the positive contributors.

even harder for me sometimes is controlling myself when i feel like screaming around here.
i have become way too sensitive to the negativity and maybe too callous to the good stuff.

time to clear my palate...

joe
 
On the frontpage of RFF we currently have the following threads:

On streets of Tel Aviv...
New Summarit Lenses
Why Rangefinder
M8 should only be shot in raw mode?
Epson Japan support?
M8 on cover of "Outside" Magazine's gift guide
Summicron 90/2 vs 90/2 APO ASPH.
what 35 mm
how should the focusing feel???
Gotta Love G2 Glass for Resolution
Bessa R 2 S lens mounting problem
Troubleshooting, con't; Scans
"Just snappin' some pics?": What street photography is for me

Have You Ever Clicked "Gallery" ?
Opening the kettle (long post) (open discussion)

This is very typical: except for the last two threads, only two
photography-related threads with very minimal participation.

Just a thought: maybe it's time to embrace what RFF is and make it
fun instead of keep beating a dead horse .... Or start and participate
in photography threads instead of re-hashing how we could change things ?

Roland.
 
when I not travelling i join the forum everyday and each time I visit the gallery. Try always to leave a comment on the photo I find interesting. In the last weeks I had not so much time and found the weekly pics very usefull to see, at least a few interesting pictures.
rob
 
ferider said:
On the frontpage of RFF we currently have the following threads:

On streets of Tel Aviv...
New Summarit Lenses
Why Rangefinder
M8 should only be shot in raw mode?
Epson Japan support?
M8 on cover of "Outside" Magazine's gift guide
Summicron 90/2 vs 90/2 APO ASPH.
what 35 mm
how should the focusing feel???
Gotta Love G2 Glass for Resolution
Bessa R 2 S lens mounting problem
Troubleshooting, con't; Scans
"Just snappin' some pics?": What street photography is for me

Have You Ever Clicked "Gallery" ?
Opening the kettle (long post) (open discussion)

This is very typical: except for the last two threads, only two
photography-related threads with very minimal participation.

Just a thought: maybe it's time to embrace what RFF is and make it
fun instead of keep beating a dead horse .... Or start and participate
in photography threads instead of re-hashing how we could change things ?

Roland.
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Just a thought: maybe it's time to embrace what RFF is and make it
fun instead of keep beating a dead horse .... Or start and participate
in photography threads instead of re-hashing how we could change things ?


well, there is always that...

joe
 
back alley said:
Just a thought: maybe it's time to embrace what RFF is and make it
fun instead of keep beating a dead horse .... Or start and participate
in photography threads instead of re-hashing how we could change things ?


well, there is always that...

joe
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dang, joe. your really being a party-pooper here. 🙂 I didn't see this as a rehash thread at all. If anything it seems more like another Gallery advertisement thread, generated in the spirit of getting folks more involved in the Gallery. It's obviously a tongue-in-cheek ploy (of course we've all seen the 'Gallery' link on the front page😉 --some members just don't click it!:bang: ).

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