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Breaking News (3 Viewing)
Updates, innovations, equipment and opportunities for photographers and photographic art. We welcome your contributions. New threads are moderated to exclude rumors or urban legend!
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OPF Welcome Hall
Enjoy OPF right away! Say Hello to us, beginners ask questions, "Riskit!" for your project, "Themes" calls for pictures on one idea. For more challenge: "Panos" for wow factor, "Still Photo" for any serious image you can't find a home for and also discussion of what makes a photo work. We move subjects to the right forum!
Introduce Yourself (1 Viewing)
How about you talk about you...
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Entry to a digital world can be eased. Try us!
Just sharing: W4 On Fire...
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Still Photo is non-structured space devoted to the tools and practice of photography as a visual art. Any kind of picture, any kind of camera and any kind of lens might be the subject of discussion. This is an alternative entry port to OPF and an incubator for photography ideas. Topics started here may end up in the related OPF forum.
Critique Desired: First Impression revisited...
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Exploring extra wide or tall scenes, using any medium from a super-wide shot or simple stitching to special projections. Rendered for Scope, Atmosphere, Size, Lighting, Dimensionality and/ Detail. Discuss methods and share impressive finished panos.
June 29th, 2009 09:07 AM Go to last post
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Post the best of your favorites in our "Themes". Comments limited to 10 words or less. A few picks a month may be copied for discussion or critique or comment elsewhere in OPF!
June 9th, 2009 11:59 PM Go to last post
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Layback Cafe (2 Viewing)
Let's chat!
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Comments & suggestions to the site.
June 9th, 2009 01:14 PM Go to last post
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Digital Camera Discussion
This is a brand independent discussion of theory, process or device. Ignore this forum unless this matters to you!
June 26th, 2009 12:32 PM Go to last post
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1D, 1DMkII, 1DMkIIN, 1DIII, 1Ds, 1DsMkII, 1DsIII, 5D, digital Rebel Series.
June 28th, 2009 05:40 AM Go to last post
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D3, D2x, D2h, D2hs, D100, D200, D300, D50, D70, D70s
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All DSLRs excluding Canon and Nikon mounts ie Sigma, Pentax, Olympus, Sony, Leica R Back DSLRs and 4/3 System
June 18th, 2009 02:10 PM Go to last post
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Digital and Film.
June 26th, 2009 12:25 PM Go to last post
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RD1, RD1s, M8 as well as all digicams. Today digicams have become so sophisticated, some boasting excellent glass. They share with the rangefinder a more subtle approach to photography. There is often far less intervention and perturbation by the camera and process of making images.
May 5th, 2009 09:32 AM Go to last post
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Digital Darkroom
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).
Helpful Hints/D.I.Y.: New Archiving System - Full...
June 12th, 2009 10:51 AM Go to last post
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Enhancing or correcting Images. Getting perfect eyes or wonderful skies. Changing the meaning of a picture. Addressing problems such as composition, distractions, blemishes, texture, incompleteness and ighting in photographs.
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Printing (2 Viewing)
All aspects of the digital printing process. All printer types and brands, as well as press and other methods. Also framing, and display.
June 30th, 2009 12:33 AM Go to last post
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All things related to the access, storage and preservation of image related data.
June 22nd, 2009 04:24 PM Go to last post
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Color Management Discussion
Theory, Tools and techniques for a color-managed workflow.
Profiles, color spaces, perception, science.
June 28th, 2009 10:19 AM Go to last post
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Photography Discussions
Discussion of commerce models and processes by which Photography reaches clients and the public.
Just sharing: featured photo @...
June 29th, 2009 11:36 AM Go to last post
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Expression of esthetic and emotional qualities in the human body. This forum, like any fine art gallery, will be curated to develop and encourage a high artistic standard. Photographs that are posted are "submitted" work. From these, some will be selected for this forum to view and be discussed. Non-selection of an image should never be taken as a rejection, rather that the work does not fit with our current goals. We encourage the broadest submissions and we predict that our opinions might often match yours. Pictures that are inappropriate include (but are not limited to) snapshots, photojournalism or "cheesecake" glamor shots. Decision will not be perfect, right, or the best possible, but will be final and not negotiable. However, the likelehood is that most phortgraphers know what fine art might include and would therefore have no issues with this policy. This requires that you login and that you are at least 18 years old.
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At any stage of experience we must still explore new areas where we are perhaps not yet fully expert or else have new ideas to kick around. Pictures might not meet exhibition, client or even our own highest standards. Critique will be tough love!
Just sharing: Thought
June 26th, 2009 01:09 PM Go to last post
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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.
May 28th, 2009 10:42 AM Go to last post
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June 29th, 2009 11:17 AM Go to last post
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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.
Just sharing: Intense laddie
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Wedding and Event (1 Viewing)
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Traditional Sports, as well as Dance, and other organized activites which involve human bodies in motion.
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Any creature of the wild: in the air, sea, on safari or your backyard!.
July 1st, 2009 06:23 PM Go to last post
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Professional Photographs of Pets and fine pictures of your own pets. Other animals go in the respective Landscape & Wildlife or Sports & Events Category. All pets are welcome.
June 3rd, 2009 10:03 AM Go to last post
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Just sharing: Museum lights
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Close-up & Macro (1 Viewing)
Macro and Micro Plants, insects, ice and other micro or macro artistic work
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March 28th, 2009 01:42 PM Go to last post
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Photography as Art (3 Viewing)
Imagery where the photographer has expressed feelings and vision in an image. Even if the effort is incomplete the work is considered art, as art is an active progressive iterative process to render the imagined into a physical form. We'd include simple and derived photographic images and even multimedia works. Here is also the place for art inspired by prose or poetry or other art.
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June 25th, 2009 02:48 PM Go to last post
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Music Photography (1 Viewing)
Photography inspired by music or the inverse. We invite a link to a free or inexpensive licensed source or that everyone knows so people can hear the music associated with the photograph. We really want creative work which connects music to photography by inspiration! Yes, pictures of performers are allowed, but please also create your own photographs which illustrate the music. This site is moderated so each musical composition will be considered on it own with the broadest interests. The same rules for the lyrics applies as to images in OPF.
July 1st, 2009 01:01 PM Go to last post
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The Gear
All photographic stuff, other than the cameras and lenses
Anything that holds or supports cameras, lenses, flash, water, back drops, computers or yourself! Includes safety straps, tripods, stands, clamps, bags, cases, shipping, air transport, rental and more!
June 19th, 2009 12:20 PM Go to last post
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All devices that are used to store image data.
January 29th, 2009 03:38 AM Go to last post
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Win OS running on a non-Mac Platform
June 30th, 2009 01:24 PM Go to last post
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All Power PC and Intel platforms.
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Uptown: Explore at your risk!
Buy, Sell, Learn, Travel, Argue, Trade: you're entirely on your own! To use any information here you agree to hold OPF harmless in case of any loss or hurt or damage. This is no different than being in a city. You could be upset by a transaction or by what someone says or shows. So proceed with the caution you would in a city new to you. Always check for yourself the validity of any offer. OPF does not stand behind or warranty any product or service even when these have been given positive comments in any other place in this website.
MFRS brief announcemts: free but moderated.
Helpful Hints/D.I.Y.: Olympus C-8080 firmware...
April 24th, 2009 05:37 AM Go to last post
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The 21 Century photographer is in a position to photograph and then report what happens in areas of strife, war and social challenge. We want first to host photographs that hold a lantern up to what happens at the hand of man and the forces of nature. So this forum looks at images beyond what would appear in most news papers or broadcasts as we can show more. There are no restrictions but we reserve the right to move at least in the short term pictures that are offensive or demeaning. This forum is mainly for photographs and then their discussion. Maintain empathy but no propaganda!
June 23rd, 2009 03:54 PM Go to last post
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Vendors that you have had good experience with. State Affiliation if any.
December 21st, 2008 09:54 PM Go to last post
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FS: (for sale) and WTB: (Want to buy). Excess gear by participating members. Pictures of the item are requested. Disclose any defects, nicks or scratches. This forum is for contributors with a track record of substantial posts on photography. Post such as "great picture" don't count. ITEMS FROM NON-CONTRIBUTORS ARE DELETED.
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Avoid if you take offense to cultural, moral or political controversy in any form.
April 3rd, 2009 11:20 PM Go to last post
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Photography & Printing: Articles, Books, Training, Seminars & Travel. Approx 12 lines per post. Combine your items in one thread per member.
June 7th, 2009 03:54 PM Go to last post
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This forum is a free service for selected OPF members. Approx 12 lines per post. Combine items in one thread per member.
July 29th, 2008 10:30 AM Go to last post
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