Updates, innovations, equipment: moderated!

How about you talk about you...

Entry to a digital world can be eased. Try us!

Photography as a visual artform open to any serious picture, where photography is the mode of our expression.

Post the best of your favorites in our "Themes". Brief Comments only!

Let's chat!

Still/Video Camera & Slide Show movies also Sound for such Production!

Comments & suggestions to the site.

This is a brand independent discussion of theory, process or device. Ignore this forum unless this matters to you!

All DSLRs excluding Canon and Nikon mounts ie Sigma, Pentax, Olympus, Sony, Leica R Back DSLRs and 4/3 System

Digital and Film.

RAW, DNG , TIFF and JPG. From Capture to Ready for Publish/Display. All software and techniques used within an image workflow, (except extensive retouching and repair or DAM).

All aspects of the digital printing process. All printer types and brands, as well as press and other methods. Also framing, and display.

Profiles, color spaces, perception, science.

Discussion of commerce models and processes by which Photography reaches clients and the public.

Expression of esthetic and emotional qualities in the human body as fine art gallery, curated.

Explore new areas. Critique will be tough love!

Some pictures have far more to see than what is immediately obvious. It's also a window and a library of whatever went before. Tell us this and so we'll be taken beyond the picture deep into the nature and feelings that will buttress the pictures and pull us to come back.

Continuous and Strobe Lighting. (The Sun is considered continuous!) Great ideas are really ten a penny! Technique in setting up the subject is, of course, essential. However, the ability to bring out form, texture, tonality and color is where the skill in lighting provides all the keys to engraving one's ideas on the delivered picture.

Traditional Sports, as well as Dance, and other organized activites which involve human bodies in motion.

Any creature of the wild: in the air, sea, on safari or your backyard!.

Macro and Micro Plants, insects, ice and other micro or macro artistic work

Work the photographer believes might command artistic value beyond their own circle. As usual in OPF, these submissions merit critique based on intent, context and purpose. This might cover technique, composition and the like. To go out in the world, however, far more might be expected, even for things of beauty or great craft. Art criticism is harder. It requires knowledge of the arts, literature, history and esthetics. Criticism comes from study of the photograph and related works. It's an assessment of how this work might stand our culture. As Dante warned: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here!

All devices that are used to store image data.

Win OS running on a non-Mac Platform

All Power PC and Intel platforms.

ITEMS FROM NON-CONTRIBUTORS ARE DELETED.

Photography & Printing: Articles, Books, Training, Seminars & Travel. Approx 12 lines per post. Combine your items in one thread per member.

This forum is a free service for selected OPF members. Approx 12 lines per post. Combine items in one thread per member.