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Breaking News (6 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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Pro-business Forum (2 Viewing)
Business talk for photography-related professionals and semi-professionals.
August 20th, 2008 10:52 AM Go to last post
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OPF and Other Site Related Topics
Let's discuss the site and other non-photographic things here. Pull up a chair.
Introduce Yourself (1 Viewing)
How about you talk about you...
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Tests bed only for now.
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Entry to a digital world can be eased. Try us!
August 23rd, 2008 06:09 PM Go to last post
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Layback Cafe (5 Viewing)
Let's chat!
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Comments & suggestions to the site.
August 20th, 2008 03:50 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!
August 23rd, 2008 05:23 PM Go to last post
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1D, 1DMkII, 1DMkIIN, 1DIII, 1Ds, 1DsMkII, 1DsIII, 5D, digital Rebel Series.
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Nikon (1 Viewing)
D3, D2x, D2h, D2hs, D100, D200, D300, D50, D70, D70s
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August 17th, 2008 04:38 AM Go to last post
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Digital and Film.
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August 24th, 2008 11:13 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.
August 24th, 2008 02:03 PM 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).
August 14th, 2008 03:00 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 (1 Viewing)
All aspects of the digital printing process. All printer types and brands, as well as press and other methods. Also framing, and display.
August 21st, 2008 02:04 PM Go to last post
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All things related to the access, storage and preservation of image related data.
June 2nd, 2008 07:53 AM 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.
August 17th, 2008 12:01 PM Go to last post
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Photography Discussions
Discussion of commerce models and processes by which Photography reaches clients and the public.
June 30th, 2008 12:53 AM Go to last post
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The Human Form As Art (1 Viewing)
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.
July 30th, 2008 10:14 PM Go to last post
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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. Your topic may be already alive elsewhere, so look first. This is an alternative entry port to OPF and an incubator for photography ideas. It does not duplicate! Topics started here may end up in the related OPF forum. This way we have the best of both worlds: freeform and indexed. Everyone is free to initiate a thread either here or in any forum in OPF related to the topic. This is also a place that Reid Review subscribers will likely find others eager to discuss topics from reviews. However Still Photo is an OPF forum and not part of the RR site. This is just an entry point. Enjoy!
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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!
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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.
August 22nd, 2008 02:52 PM Go to last post
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August 23rd, 2008 10:07 PM 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.
August 26th, 2008 11:39 AM Go to last post
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Wedding and Event (3 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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August 25th, 2008 01:26 PM Go to last post
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Landscape - Travel (5 Viewing)
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Wildlife (2 Viewing)
Any creature of the wild: in the air, sea, on safari or your backyard!.
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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.
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August 16th, 2008 12:27 PM Go to last post
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Close-up & Macro (1 Viewing)
Macro and Micro Plants, insects, ice and other micro or macro artistic work
August 26th, 2008 01:02 PM Go to last post
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August 26th, 2008 05:29 PM Go to last post
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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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August 26th, 2008 08:23 PM Go to last post
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Music Photography (4 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 16th, 2008 01:38 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 16th, 2008 05:43 AM Go to last post
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Storage - Memory (1 Viewing)
All devices that are used to store image data.
June 13th, 2008 07:06 AM Go to last post
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Windows on PC (1 Viewing)
Win OS running on a non-Mac Platform
August 23rd, 2008 06:55 AM 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.
August 26th, 2008 01:38 PM Go to last post
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Vendors that you have had good experience with. State Affiliation if any.
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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.
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Photography & Printing: Articles, Books, Training, Seminars & Travel. Approx 12 lines per post. Combine your items in one thread per member.
July 29th, 2008 10:03 AM 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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