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I hope this puts my CS flare shot back into the discussion. Sorry, I seem to have removed my hotlinked earlier version.

<a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1221/1338666986_8a4bbaaf64.jpg">CS filter</a>

Captcha : Can a possible terrible cheat have access ?<p>

 

oh my goodness! oh drat, three exclamation marks. and two question marks. bad grammar and spelling. what will we ever do?</p><p>

 

what has become of Critique Only? If you could spend as much time and energy on critiques as you do on the rating system.. well.. nevermind, its useless to even mention it. <a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/pc-recent-requests?rating_type=photocritique&topic_id=1481&subscriber_p=1&critique_p=1">CRITIQUE ONLY</a></P><p>Problem with Your Input

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</P><p>Quite amusing, really </p><p> In actual fact, if someone can create a false account in hotmail, what is stopping this new hotmail account from signing on as a real account, and passing the word test? This drastic measure is directed at bots, I would think. So, it really is a bother to everyone but the few, and a convenience to the people who are trying to control the same few. False accounts can continue unimpeded, unless there is some way to check IP addresses. How that is that possible with web based accounts?</p>

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I had no kick backs! I want kick backs!

 

Seriously, my new log in worked on one try, hours ago.

 

I wonder what this might do to the old accounts that are not revisited? I think you may have many double accounts from old, and new. The new from frustration at trying to sign in on the old.

 

I wonder if Josh can see all the old (and some bogus) accounts? This might be a really good shortcut to finding out who is real and who is not real.

 

Answer the doorbell when the girl guides come selling the cookies kiddies. :)

Chas

 

You seem to have an innate ability to state the obvious in new and original ways. But I think you missed the point of my post.

 

Jim was talking about the 'critique' forum on a learning photography site. What can we learn about a photo without seeing the details of how it is made? How can we critique it if we do not know if it was a scanned in post card, or a photo from our Parent's collection from the UK 70 years ago, scanned in and claimed as our own?

 

My point is that if the EXIF data was available for digitals or otherwise the photographer would be required to state the particulars in the technical information; and ask a specific question about what is to be critiqued; this would go a long way to improving the critiques on this learning photography site.

 

The way you add your camera and other details is a nightmare at present, so I can see why its not filled out. Also the promotion of the TRP and ratings games over good critiques in the CRITIQUE FORUM has degraded this site over the years. I had hoped that with the change of management last August we might see more and better critiques, but I just see more flashing ads, more arguments about nudes vs. porn, more arguments about digital vs film cameras, more and more complaints about the ratings, with nothing really done about any of it. They ask us to have patience and wait for the new system. A year is a long time to wait, especially when you can go to numerous other communities and find the answers to your questions and interact with other people who are interested in the same things you might be doing. The articles here are full of information, but there is no way to interact about your photo within the Articles.

 

I just hoped we could promote this site's ability to get back to critiques and dump the ratings entirely. Not likely to happen, though. I am afraid that the games are what brings the viewers into the site to click on all those flashing ads and email their friends when they have loaded a photo to come to the rate recent to promote themselves to the top of the TRP for the exposure ir the imagined ego boost.

 

There I have definitely been a pest. And I'm not sorry I did it either.

Can you make the details stay longer? It should help in anyone's assessment of the value of the photo. If we must try and put a numeric value on a subjective matter, wouldn't it help to have some idea of how the photo was made?

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I have an Aroma CS (Cross Screen) filter that I used for <a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/5900595">this shot</a> I definitely need more practise, but its fun to play with. It seems there are different kinds of these filters available on ebay. The rest of the flare shots in my folder are using my Canon Powershot A50. But I was able to get the same kind of diamond kind of colored flares by shooting at about a 45 degree angle from directly into the sun, with my 35mm Canon and the 28 - 135 lens. <p>

 

What's a Canon groupie doing in the Nikon forum? I am also a Lex groupie, so I followed his comment here. I love flares. </p>

I hope this works for you today: <a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/pc-recent-requests?rating_type=photocritique&topic_id=1481&subscriber_p=1&critique_p=1"> Critique Only</a> <p>

 

The way things are changing recently, it might be something entirely different tomorrow.</p><p>

 

Cheers</p><p>

 

MM</p>

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The website is very easy to navigate and fun to visit. I found myself wishing for a slide show.. and there it was. The addition of music by choice is a very nice feature also. I am not sure what the lightbox does, but that is just my lack of understanding.

 

You have traveled extensively and recorded your travels very well; giving your viewers a feeling of having been and seen each place.

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I was way behind one day to catch the train

Taxi driver said "We'll make it just the same"

The speed cop made it with us

And as he wrote out the ticket

I stood by politely a-waitin' for my change

 

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