Ashley Karyl
New member
I am a photographer based in the UK, though I have previously worked in various countries and I am mainly specialised in beauty photography. I've just joined the forum today, so I hope I can contribute something of use here.
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Doug Kerr
Well-known member
Hi, Ashley,
Lovely work on your site.
I'm so glad to see you use the word "beauty". In the discussions here, we rarely see it used (except perhaps to describe a particular kind of flash reflector!), and in so carefully navigating around it, I think we miss a very important notion.
Welcome aboard.
Lovely work on your site.
I'm so glad to see you use the word "beauty". In the discussions here, we rarely see it used (except perhaps to describe a particular kind of flash reflector!), and in so carefully navigating around it, I think we miss a very important notion.
Rachel Foster
New member
Welcome to OPF!
Ashley Karyl
New member
Thanks for the welcome. It looks like a nice forum and I am always a bit wary of those places where everybody seems to engage in regular wars and slanging matches.
Nigel Allan
Member
Me too, you'll find this place refreshing. Welcome Ashley. Where are you based?
Nigel
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
This is an important characteristic we avoid here like the plague. People come to relax, share images and get the ideas to go back and do better. Much of the work in making a forum pleasant is at the front door, who one lets in!
We work hard to exclude anyone with a history of rudeness, trolls etc. At a guess, we block 50% of registrants as spammers before they even get to complete their registration and then 65% of the remaining folk get through. After that, the tone of the community is obvious and folk just warm to that.
Asher