Photo.net trouble

[josh_gilreath]

<p>Is anyone having trouble posting things on this forum? I don't mean to make a big fuss, I love this website, but lately I've found it rather hard to throw up a picture and get feedback. A couple months ago I threw up a portrait of a car in the portraits and fashion forum, it got deleted, I honestly didn't mean to offend anyone, because I had put a portrait of a building in there several months earlier and it was fine. I was told that the proper place to post my image was in the casual photo conversations forum. Well just last night I tried posting another picture there, and sure enough it got deleted. I was only doing what I thought I was told to do. I would just love some feedback on my work, without having to go through the photo critique gallery, as it seems that most of those images never receive feedback. <br /> Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.</p>

[jgalyon]

<p>Josh...it sounds as though you're constantly attempting to put your photographs where they're NOT supposed to be in order to get more views/more feedback. You put a "portrait" of a car in the portraits and fashion forum...and you wonder why it got deleted? And...you put a "portrait" of a building....under the same category? Are you kiddin' me my good man?</p>

<p>Here's a suggestion: picture of a car....goes in the "cars" category. picture of a building...architecture. </p>

<p><strong><em> I would just love some feedback on my work, without having to go through the photo critique gallery, as it seems that most of those images never receive feedback.</em></strong><br>

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Is there some reason you think you should have priveleges no one else has? </p>

<p><strong><em> I was told that the proper place to post my image was in the casual photo conversations forum. </em></strong></p>

<p>Someone told you wrong.</p>

<p>Think about it Josh...."casual conversation"....a place where people chat, talk, converse, communicate via written language. "photo critique gallery"...a place where people critique one another's photos, i.e., offer<strong> "feedback".</strong><br>

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[mike dixon]

<p>From the Casual Conversations forum home page:</p>

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<h2>About This Forum</h2>

<p>A lightly moderated discussion group among members. Please try to stay within our <a href="http://www.photo.net/terms-of-use">Terms of Use</a> . Ask yourself "is what I'm posting going to be helpful to other readers trying to improve their craft?" <strong>If you would like to post images for critique, please use our <a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/forum?topic_id=1481">Photo Critique</a> forum</strong> .</p>

 

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<p>Re: <em>A couple months ago I threw up a portrait of a car in the portraits and fashion forum, it got deleted</em></p>

<p>Photos of cars are <strong>not</strong> portraits. Photos of buildings are <strong>not</strong> portraits.</p>

[josh_gilreath]

<p>Someone told you wrong.<br>

that someone i speak of happened to be a moderator of this forum. <br>

Photos of cars are <strong >not</strong> portraits. Photos of buildings are <strong >not</strong> portraits.<br>

the point i was trying to make was that the building picture did NOT get deleted.. the car did? Why are we so selective?<br>

Is there some reason you think you should have priveleges no one else has?<br>

I dont think that I have special privileges, but one would think that this being a PHOTO website there would be a place for you to post a picture and be ensured some feed back? Am I that far off base?</p>

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[mike dixon]

<p><em>I was told that the proper place to post my image was in the casual photo conversations forum.</em></p>

<p>Actually, this is what you were told by a moderator after your car photo was moved from the Portrait forum:</p>

 

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<p ><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=14630">Bob Atkins</a> <a href="../member-status-icons"><img title="Admin" src="http://static.photo.net/v3graphics/member-status-icons/admin.gif" alt="" title="Admin" /> <img title="Subscriber" src="http://static.photo.net/v3graphics/member-status-icons/sub10plus.gif" alt="" title="Subscriber" /> <img title="Frequent poster" src="http://static.photo.net/v3graphics/member-status-icons/3rolls.gif" alt="" title="Frequent poster" /> </a> , Apr 07, 2009; 06:33 p.m. (<a href="../bboard/admin-edit-msg?msg_id=00T0BP">edit</a> | <a href="../bboard/admin-delete-msg?msg_id=00T0BP">delete</a> )<br>

This forum isn't a place to just ask for critiques of a specific image, but it's OK to ask here about car photography in general, so the post here is fine (I know it was bounced from other forums...)<br /> <br /> Cars really fall under "product photography" rather than "portrait photography", though I'll admit that some of us do personalize our cars and maybe even think of them as people!</p>

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<em>the point i was trying to make was that the building picture did NOT get deleted.. the car did? Why are we so selective?</em></p>

<p>Moderators don't monitor every forum every minute of the day. Sometimes something slips by. One off-topic post not getting deleted from the Portrait forum doesn't mean that it's a free-for-all where you can post any kind of shot you choose.</p>