Have You Ever Clicked "Gallery" ?

This WAS an interesting thread...

This WAS an interesting thread...

but since hot shot artists & PJ's are spouting off, I'll skip the BS & head to the gallery. The talent is in the pics there, not in their own mind and caustic tongues.

Joe, I dunno how you do it! :bang:

Jo
 
sitemistic said:
So the idea of changes to the site, which we all spent lots of time discussing, is now a "dead horse?"

O.K. Now I'm really confused.
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no dead horse...stephen is committed to making some changes and is working with memphis on them - soon to be revealed, i believe.

i think roland's point was that maybe we are working on changes that people really don't want.
my take on lots of this stuff is that the site was started by jorge but formed by the wants and actions of the membership and 'we' all had a hand in creating what it is today.
if we really wanted more of this or that then why did we not influence it so that it would happen. we talk much about images but many do not post any or make comments...why is that? no owner ever banned that.
there is much chatter about the classifieds being on the front page but even the exodus crowd came back to sell their wares here. we mostly all of us look there for bargoons and deals and pristine gear. how many of us have asked to buy a print from someone?
we are what we are, no judgements made.
 
Ya know, this thread started w/ a confession by Ruben involving the use of the Gallery, to which Jon responded w/ some info that some of us found really useful for our visits to the Gallery in the future. But it seems to have morphed into another RFF gripe session. That's too bad (IMVHO). Must be the weather....😕

Is it Miller Time, gents? 🙂
 
Most mornings (using the 1 Day filter) there are three pages of uploads.

Today there are seven pages.

Thank you for starting this thread Ruben. In itself it seems to have excited interest in the Gallery.
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
Most mornings (using the 1 Day filter) there are three pages of uploads.

Today there are seven pages.

Thank you for starting this thread Ruben. In itself it seems to have excited interest in the Gallery.
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Well done Jon, lets steer this veering ship back to the safe shores of The Gallery where we started!

I think the gallery is very well set-up to accomplish most things. I, like Jon, have a number of albums plus a more random section of images in my member gallery ( no jokes please.) I find the flexibility excellent and extremely useful when I do get the chance to take a look at somebody else's gallery. The use of albums, for instance, allows me to place images on a similar topic or that fit well together in the one place. This not only allows someone browsing my gallery to decide whether they wish to view that particular album or not but also stops the main page becoming off putting with 80 pages of images. With albums you can allow viewers to dip in and out.


Dektol - I'm surprised you don't tend to use Flickr for the kind of testing you talk about, I say this simply as Flickr seems to have a group for everything and would seem to me a good place to interact with others you wish to view the information you provide. The 'Recent Images' gallery may not be the best place for them to be displayed generally as there is a lot of traffic. If as Jon suggests you try an album and then place a link to them in your sig you may find you get alot of interest. I've just bought a Carl Zeiss Planar 50 ZM f2 and would have loved to see some lens comparison tests of it here before I purchased ( obviously you may not have done such a test or be interested in such but the idea is still a worthy one.) I hope you find a way to make RFF work for you.


Ruben - I think you've done a very positive thing in starting this thread, it seems about time that we start looking at what we have got and making the most of it, that's not to say needlessly slapping ourselves on the back - simply using what we have to its maximum potential.


Damn it! I dropped a stitch!!Knit one, pearl one, knit one, pearl one
 
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Another few ways to get the best out of the Gallery:

There is a choice at 'Want to be notified by email when users post replies?' set to No every time you upload. Change it to Yes and you'll receive emails with nice comments.

Similarly if you comment on somebody else's photo it's possible to receive emails of other people's comments after yours. Look under any photo and see the 'Receive Email updates' link.

(Could that default No behavior in the upload page be changed to default Yes behavior? It might promote imagery if some people don't know it's there and aren't using it.)
 
Gabriel M.A. said:
2) Hardly ever anybody cared to look at my gallery. So no big loss.
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I think this is a problem with our gallery, though it may be more of a problem with those of us that use it. All too often my visit to the gallery stops at that, I pop in and out of the site, take a quick view of recently posted images (while trying to cover the period of time since I last looked) and hopefully find a few images that I'd like to comment on and then I'm off again.

I should, and I know I should, view peoples galleries far more often as I would get to see far more of their view of the world...and probably get some great ideas as a result.

I imagine that the majority of us do just that, we may also be guilty of using the gallery for others to view our work far more than as an opportunity to few a body of work by others.

I'll make myself a little promise that I'll try to keep; simply to view one persons full gallery everyday that I visit RFF...and starting with those members work that I'm not familiar with.

Its a shame that you've deleted your images Gabriel, I'll have to check your sig for a personal website or Flickr type thing so I can see some more of your excellent colour work that caught my eye recently.
 
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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Joe, if it's any consolation, I have been trying to do that. Please join me and others to celebrate film photography with... pictures 🙂

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50008
 
RayPA said:
I did that once. It took the better part of an afternoon to do it, which points to your #1. Oops now I'm pooping too.

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Ray, the trick to make this faster is to put them in an album, you can
delete entire albums with one click. After I found out I started posting
pics again.

I hope we are not loosing Gabriel, one of my favorite photographers at RFF.

Roland.
 
How did we get from there to here?

We started talking about the positive side of the Gallery, and now we're giving advice on how to mass-delete photos from the Gallery!
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
How did we get from there to here?

We started talking about the positive side of the Gallery, and now we're giving advice on how to mass-delete photos from the Gallery!
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OK, enjoy yourself. My last post in this thread.
 
Bingley said:
I was wondering the same thing. I see that he deleted all the photos from his Gallery.
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I haven't deleted any posts of mine. Only the photos. So, if you see any other weird behaviour on posts being deleted, it's not me.

Moderators: feel free to move my comment elsewhere and edit my comment saying so, rather than just nuking it. Fans "flames" further due to others' confusion.
 
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