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- Welcome to This New Forum!
- Making Pictures - Ben Lifson Essays
- The Web Gallery of Art
- Creativity and constraint
- Mitch Alland's "An Approach To Street Photography" Article
- Photography As Part Of Daily Life
- Pocket Cameras
- One Camera, One Lens?
- OVF choices for GX100
- Posting Images To OPF
- A late but warm welcome…
- Image Glut and Digital Facility
- The Evolution of the Young Still Photo Forum
- "Choice"
- Framing a Rapidly Changing Scene
- Soft case or pouch for GX100 + CV 35?
- 'Prohibitions' - a collaborative exercise/project idea
- Locking exposure on the GX100
- Man on escalator
- A non-technical discussion on print sizes
- Inspiration
- Lightroom B&W film presets?
- Epson RD-1
- Very large images
- From Brueghel to Street Photography: Let's discuss!
- Ikodot viewfinder??
- Hunting Lodge
- Is there a compelling reason to take pictures based on our cultural stereotypes.
- Project-based photography: choosing a subject
- The current best carry everywhere camera?
- "Seeing like a Master" by Alain Briot
- Asher Kelman's Photography As Art Series
- Underwater Love
- Pinkham's, Petzval's, & Petrol on Pater's Day 2008
- Discovery
- Sometimes Zero LPPM is where it's at!!
- <caution> 2 fuzzy picture blogs! </caution>
- Happy Pedal Car
- Promised a lot delivered.. not much
- Gx200
- Approaching the flower with a dark background: how it might work?
- Postmodernism, et al. I'm getting annoyed.
- What might make B&W work in Cem's art?
- Funky Still Life 1, 2, & 3
- When to Macro?
- Abstract?
- Being Prepared v. the "Luck Effect" in Your Most Impressive Photography!
- Intimate Contact
- Challenge: Fine Pictures: Non abandoned windows - colour or black and white, glass or not!
- America & Alfred Stieglitz
- Healing Fields - Patriot Park
- (no prefix)
- A bit of Whimsy
- Question: Picture within a photograph: But who's art is it?
- Work versus Nature & Nurture: Becoming a Pro Photographer! What exactly does it take?
- Autoerotica
- For the Sort Focus Junkies only...
- Looking for feedback on my ongoing personal project, Project: One Song
- Controlling Specular Reflections
- Question: Bracketing to Grasp Wide Dynamic Range Scenes: What's Your Approach?
- Megan, Karl Struss Pictorial Lens
- A few NYE shots
- Critique Desired: The Basin
- Critique Desired: relaxed
- Critique Desired: Cem and Mike's Print Swap
- News: The New OPF Print Exchange
- Critique Desired: on the edge
- Critique Desired: confined dreams
- pedal car and puddle duck
- Critique Desired: Brass From the Past
- Gung Hay Fat Choy! 新年快乐 Xin Nian Kuai Le!
- Total Eggclipse
- Careful use of light and even strong filters to present a unique photograph of worth.
- generations
- mute bet dzivo
- Kora
- Critique Desired: A truly contemplative picture. In addition to the grain, what's your feelings on this
- Sordo, Ciego, y Mudo
- Critique Desired: Recent scoldings......
- caresizligin basina vurdugu an
- Exit frame right
- Critique Desired: Reflections in Velvia....
- Question: help with bringing out a color
- Critique Desired: opposites
- Challenge: Fine Black and white.... Wide vista landscapes with sky
- Challenge: Fine B&W: Stumps, Pilings, Weathered Roots and other Nature-ravished Wooden Form
- Challenge: Black and white.... windows in abandoned buildings! Find them and/shoot afresh!
- Challenge: B&W "...through the keyhole (from Alice in Wonderland)" Using selective focus in B&W.
- Critique Desired: Stairs
- The Cellar Series: fungi/lichen/moss
- Critique Desired: Metallic abstracts
- The Exposed film look!
- Critique Desired: Pictures taken along La Cienaga Blvd and Washington Blvd
- Challenge: Door to...
- Pinhole: Say Cheese!
- Challenge: Hands in composition with Flowers and more
- Critique Desired: Where's the genie?
- Challenge: Night Photography of Places and Vistas: To Start, a Diner Appearing from the Darkness
- Challenge: Some water pictures with kids having fun!
- Challenge: Kids that play music! My Start a threesome!
- Challenge: Trains Above!
- Critique Desired: First Impression revisited...
- Critique Desired: Do you see the light?
- Question: Can you shed Light on These World WAR I Photos?
- Critique Desired: Considering for entry to contest
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: summer flowers
- Approaching People Photography: What kind of photographer are you?
- Question: Framing schedule: At the shoot? Or later to give new choices down the road?
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Severe Buick
- Critique Desired: More trees.....
- Critique Desired: Green Lynx Spider, In action.
- Critique Desired: Community Theatre, On-Stage Shots
- Critique Desired: Flower in the park
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: September 11
- Friday night 10:36 ...
- Refining Photography: Advice needed!
- Critique Desired: Light on a Tree Trunk: Help making this work, ideas welcome.
- Critique Desired: Bokeh
- Question: Shooting over ISO 2000: Choices of ISO, shutter speed, f stop and workflow.
- Film: New Family Member.....meet Dorothy
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Sketching a portrait at the edge of a tungsten lit stage: ISO 6400!
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: So who gives you the right to call a "manipulated" digital picture a photograph!
- Critique Desired: A digital picture of light and shadows
- For discussion
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Erik Jonas 1
- Erik Jonas 2
- Erik Jonas 3
- Erik Jonas 4
- drift
- Field of bulrushes
- Critique Desired: Different Type of Still Life
- Critique Desired: Night, Arles
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Using a 360 degree Panoramas to "break-out" and discover new framing possibilities
- Sandclock Adventure
- Question: Getting from a personal memento or snapshot to something of wider value: ideas?
- Art appreciation for kids
- My first composite(or whatever)...
- Question: Lake Michigan in November at Sunrise
- In Perspective, Fun: So what is a snap?
- A couple of snaps from today
- Critique Desired: Shooting From the Hip, As It Were
- Film: Female form.......
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Stage Lighting: Inspired by Asher's Music Images
- Helpful Hints/D.I.Y.: The Importance of Color space in sharing what you want with others here and in print.
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Recent work
- Question: What Does This Need? What Is Missing?
- Peace and Quiet...
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Painting (with light)
- Grand Forks
- PictureADay projects: January 2010: Left objects
- Sunset Rendez-vous!
- My Hometown, Felton Ca.
- PictureADay projects: February 2010: Portraits
- Critique Desired: Self portrait
- Landscapes in Cloudy Conditions
- Critique Desired: Flower
- PictureADay projects: March 2010: Homeland
- Style, or "The Look"
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Palm Fronds and the Church
- Critique Desired: Yet another sunset
- Critique Desired: In Wonder
- Critique Desired: Sunset
- Critique Desired: Lake Michigan Beach
- Question: Help with cropping?
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Chapel on the Hill
- C&C Desired, edit & repost O.K.) A path to walk.....
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Trona Pinnacles - light & shadow play
- Film: lathe tool holder
- Critique Desired: Bridge to Your Future
- Critique Desired: Twins in the desert
- Critique Desired: Still Life: Unitarian Church
- The Muskegon Shoot
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Hanuman Temple in Advalpal, Goa
- Challenge: Celebrate Dance! Choose images of dancers that impress you.
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: The Starving Artist
- Critique Desired: Beach Abstract?
- Question: Which is better?
- Critique Desired: Mizpah
- Film: Timisoara images
- Critique Desired: small pepper
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Light of the Midnight Sun
- Getting to know the Photographers who didn't go to Yale, are not dead and made it!
- Beaver Boy
- Critique Desired: Red
- Film: Enfin! Large Format Fine Images of the unheard of Postcard Photographer of Paris!
- Critique Desired: Three musketeers
- Critique Desired: Three musketeers crop 1
- Critique Desired: Lychees 1
- Critique Desired: Yellow Kettle 1
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Night in Reykjavík
- Grænavatn
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Kleifarvatn, Iceland
- Critique Desired: after the morning rain
- Question: Bass String
- Critique Desired: "Flame On"
- Critique Desired: "Etheral Light"
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Lakagígar
- Critique Desired: "Morning Dew"
- Critique Desired: "Parallel Universe"
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Monsoonscapes of Goa, 2010
- Critique Desired: Rudbeckia bottom up
- Critique Desired: Clivia
- Critique Desired: Flower Bouquet, old vs. new lens
- New England Dramatic Sky over Farmland. Developing the Final Image!
- Monsoon Bliss in Chorão (Goa, India)
- Critique Desired: Shona
- Critique Desired: A Flower
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Qvack.
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Damodar temple in Loliem, Goa
- C&C Desired, edit & repost O.K.) What is my story? To you?
- C&C Desired, edit & repost O.K.) Moss Man: C & C please
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Aldeyjarfoss
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Evening in Hof
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Folds in the Road
- Critique Desired: From Lorraine with soft focus
- Homer
- Critique Desired: Cockatoos in a Tree
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Fjallabak Nature Reserve
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Jaguar (the 4-wheeled type)
- A quick test of first impressions! The image out of context!
- C&C Desired, edit & repost O.K.) Composition Question
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Herðubreið
- Can You say Extra white balance!
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Temple in Parsem, Goa
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Rainbow in Death Valley
- WW II Bunkers
- Family art!
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Berserkjahraun
- One hot model!
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: The Painted Heavens
- In Perspective, Fun: More from the Headlight
- Ian + desert
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Lónsöræfi
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Frostastaðavatn
- Fun In The Forest.
- News: A Major Set Of Exhibitions in Paris!
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Autumn in Akureyri
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Gateways to Heaven and Hell
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Hliðarendi
- NSFW: A cute model waring a nice hat and boots?
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Ingjaldshóll
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Reykjavík Moon Rising
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Dragons in the Sky
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Vesturhorn (or Batman Mountain)
- Sunset behind a Torso
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Kirkjufell
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Bhoomika Temple
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Fog in the fjord
- Critique Desired: Love of the Season
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Clarity
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Dettifoss
- Critique Desired: The bow!
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Temple in Keri, Goa
- Film: Stillness and movement.
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Evening in Siridona
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Our Lady of Socorro
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Nirvana
- morning
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: The sun sets...
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: A New Morning, A New Year
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: The Sacred Anthill
- adult toy stores
- Critique Desired: "Whatever would she see in him?"
- Communications breakdown
- The Church in Húsavík
- Untitled
- The Long Iron Bridge Revisited
- Hraundrangi
- Critique Desired: Lone Love
- Critique Desired: Slice of Light
- Skógafoss
- Untitled II
- Portrait of a Centenarian
- Critique Desired: Chap
- Untitled III
- Untitled IV
- Meow
- Gear and Gadgets: Questions on choice of the tool for the job and the lke! Schlepp Factor.
- Dyrfjöll
- Boot 2011 - Patterns
- Ferry
- Los Angeles Sidewalks
- Ave Maria
- Closing Time
- Radical Redemption
- Studio City Sunset
- Point-and-Shoot
- In the woods...
- In Perspective, Fun: Spamming ad deleted!
- Morning in Goa - Part 1
- Woman in Jodhpur
- Just Some Driftwood!
- Contretemps in Jökulsárlón
- Critique Desired: A juried art show. What? Who, me??
- Búðir
- Travelog: Finds of Art in People and People in Art.
- Demolition machines.
- Morning in Goa - Part 2
- The Icelandic Horse
- In Perspective, Planet: Photographic composition and
- Cem's Website!
- Mornin' in Saligao
- Windows of Nacre
- In Perspective, Planet: Memory of colors Project: Must not be missed!
- Politically Accurate Statement
- The Panjim Church
- Krýsuvíkurbjarg
- Gígjökull
- Temple in Kundaim
- Light Capers in Death Valley
- Candids in Vagator
- A Mývatn Dream
- Posting problems
- Eruption in Iceland
- Salt of the Earth
- The Early Bird
- Dynjandi
- A Room with a View
- Horses in Langanes
- Rescue!
- Bucolic
- Just sharing a few recent photos.
- Sunset in Vestmannaeyjar
- Selárdalur
- My Shooting in Series: An Update
- Harsh Light
- Romancing the Monsoon
- My World: Pop Soda Fire
- A Portfolio Series for Your Consideration: An invited Series Portals: One Within Another
- A Portrait with the Zeiss 100MP
- Kids in Djúpavík
- LF: The Beauty of Age (minimalism)
- Puffins in Golden Light
- Midnight Sun
- Challenge: Concept: Point/Counterpoint
- Swamp Forms, Noosa NP
- C&C Desired, edit & repost O.K.) Today's Favorites
- Comments on Exhibit Photos, Please
- My World: Is she the world's youngest exhibited photographer?
- Church statues
- Travelog: Where each of a series of pictures impacts the next: "Days and Nights in the Forrest"
- Fall I
- Fall II
- Critique Desired: Best Shot from Yesterday
- Bunkers II
- Sadness
- Untitled VII
- Untitled VIII
- C&C Desired, edit & repost O.K.) Hot Door
- Untitled IX
- Emergency brake
- Untitled 10
- mellow colours
- Beach in winter
- Human Influence
- essentials
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Hot Peppers
- Critique Desired: Lines and Textures
- Still Life (not)
- My World: A Poem and A Photo
- Critique Desired: Which version?
- A bit of insecurity
- Corner
- Alley
- Pears!
- Photographic Gems of Our Times From The Web Moshe Katvan visit to Berlin 2012
- Critique Desired: Still Life - Chess Pieces
- Critique Desired: Still Life - Sea Horse
- LF: Time and space
- Nothing but pictures
- A Poem and A Photo - 2
- Impression(ism)
- It is light
- The last one
- Critique Desired: Mosquito Hawk
- Critique Desired: Day Lily
- Happiness
- Forest Diamond
- Challenge: Serious fun with an iPhone!
- early morning hour blues
- How to expose [present and show] images ?
- Summer Floral
- Flora
- C&C Desired, edit & repost O.K.) Brief Moments Of Solitude
- summer-evening-dream?
- summer-evening-dream (series)
- LENSCRATCH Hometown Exhibition
- Soft shoulders
- Critique Desired: Slackline 8x10
- Art from the iPod
- C&C Desired, edit & repost O.K.) No Standing
- Old Posts and/ Books with Lasting Value! Select your favorites and repost them here.
- Empty place
- It's a bike
- LENSCRATCH Pets and Animals Exhibit
- The Claw
- Original Art and Inspired Photograph Rina Natural Light Polaroid
- My World: Beautiful Trash
- Twisted Steel
- Celebrity Portraiture
- Just for Fun No C&C will be given: The Makings of an Omelet
- One Picture/One Paragraph
- You Can Never Go Back
- My World: How do some public spaces end up so hostile?
- 180
- My World: A Tulip -- kind of a street shot
- My World: Light! (tulip)
- Review: question about composition
- Found space
- Question: Why do we post pictures here or elsewhere on the WWW? How should we respond?
- The Mad Hatter Was Here
- Night Photography: feedback and discussion requested
- My World: Lonely Places in the Snow
- Far from the maddening crowds...