other photography forums?

[Alex_Galea]

dont get me wrong, i love this forum. i have like 130 posts and ive had it for like a month. but im just wondering if you gusy ever go to any other photography forums?

[Eagle]

WHY GO ANYWHERE ELSE?

[Ronald S. Jr.]

BLASPHEMER!!!! You shall hereby be stoned...to death.:evil:



I go to FM sometimes, but just to sell. I think the actual forum is pretty stinky in comparison. This is a lovely place. I also like that it's focused on Canon, since that's what I use. Makes it easier to find out what you want to know! Don't have to search through Nikon, Oly, Contax, Hassy, etc. Much easier.

[sugarzebra]

There's no place like POTN, however I think that you will find that when it comes to buying & selling a lot of people use Fred Miranda (FM) as well (strictly because of the volume). I would think of that as not a lot different than using eBay so its probably OK ;)

[Saralonde]

I started out at other forums but spend my limited time here. People are knowledgeable, quick to answer and generally have a sense of humor about noob questions. I check out FM every so often, too, but feel more at "home" here.

[Alex_Galea]

ya, i love it here too, i only go to this one other place where i post my cat pictures and everyone thinks im pro, lol.

[weka2000]

How many members do we have?

[Ronald S. Jr.]

28,745 as of now.

[calicokat]

Fred Miranda is good for selling. Very high volume of items come and go there.

[weka2000]

28,745 as of now.

Thats not to bad, all that knowedge and experence. Cant go wrong here.

[liza]

Fred Miranda's forum isn't too bad, although I feel that POTN members as a whole are kinder to newbies. There's also a forum associated with Smugmug, called Dgrin. And then there's the Flickr experience, which is getting to be as big as all outdoors.

All in all, I've participated in a number of different forums, but this one is the one that keeps me coming back for more.

[Jaymz]

28,745 as of now.

I wonder how many are regulars, who visit often.....

[Citizensmith]

photo.net is a decent site. Good reviews and some very knowlegable folks there. Held back by old and very limited forum software though.

[Pekka]

How many members do we have?

60,938 and rising. See the bottom of forum index page for counters.

[MarkoPolo]

This is my photographic home! Having said that, I do enjoy looking at the work on Naturescapes and the tutorials on Luminous Landscape.

[lakiluno]

talkphotography.co.uk is the only other photography forum I visit regularily. Its run on vbulletin (Used on 3 out of 4 of the main forums I visit), and it has a good atmosphere. Its based in the UK, so everyone knows the areas mentioned better.

Apart from that, POTN is my home. I think I've made more posts/day here than anywhere else (I have over 1000 posts on 3 different forums, one of which I've been a member since 2003)

Leo

[etaf]

i use this one a lot
DPforums.com a lot
photo.net ocassionally
and loads of other sites occasionally - i like the aricles in shootsmarter.com/

then theres photoshop - and thats a different story
i also spend time on forums.techguy.org and they have a photo section

Now you can see I spend to much time online.............

[Andy_T]

I wonder how many are regulars, who visit often.....

If we go from the assumption that those who visit often also post often, a look at the members list (sorted by number of posts) can help here:

- about 600 users with more than 500 posts
- about 2300 users with more than 100 posts
- about 8700 users with more than 10 posts

so I guess there's a lot of pretty active people here:wink:

Best regards,
Andy

[lakiluno]

so over 50,000 of those members haven't made 10 posts!


ooh...I'm one of only 600 :)

edit: According to my crude counting, I'm the 195th top poster :D

(thats vs me being the 711th highest poster on digitalspy.co.uk, where I have 1,850 posts and there's 151,000 members, and me being in the top 10 of a forum with 2000 members)

well...not too bad :D

[Andy_T]

As far as other photography forums are mentioned, I quite recently took a look at www.photocamel.com which seems to be a nice community but quite small. In the Canon forum, if you scroll down the page to thread #25, it's about 3 weeks old.

Best regards,
Andy

[jbkalla]

There are other photography forums? :-)

[johnnybfan]

There are other photography forums? :-)

Nobody ever told me, either.:lol::lol::lol:

[Wsman2]

Aside from this one (the one I go to the most), I also visit:

DP Review's Forums (http://www.dpreview.com/forums/)
Forum for Canon PowerShot Pro 1 users (http://www.powershotpro1.com/newforum/)

[CyberDyneSystems]

I check out a few others,
Primarily Fred Miranda to see what's going on,.. post reviews, check Buy and sell (well I used to before I started house hunting) and of course to marvel at how much better this place is and boost my ego.

I rarely post at Naturescapes.net,. but I do like to go there and look at the bird photos,. and to have my ego utterly decimated! :lol:

[saravrose]

i'll be honest, I found POTN it was exactly what I was needing/wanting.. and have never gone looking for another photography forum...

sari

[Citizensmith]

I check out a few others

So wait, you are responsible for 94.7% of the posts here and you still have time to post on others? :)

I used to be a frequent poster at photo.net but droped to troll over there after I found this place. Here and ArsTechnica are the only places I post now.

[Carzee]

Ahem.. (no one has said it out loud, but you're all thinking it..)

This is THE forum because the MODS are the best online anywhere!!

[/brown nose]
:) cheers

[johnnybfan]

Ahem.. (no one has said it out loud, but you're all thinking it..)

This is THE forum because the MODS are the best online anywhere!!

[/brown nose]
:) cheers

Very brown nose :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[Alissa Morris]

As far as other photography forums are mentioned, I quite recently took a look at www.photocamel.com (http://www.photocamel.com) which seems to be a nice community but quite small. In the Canon forum, if you scroll down the page to thread #25, it's about 3 weeks old.

Best regards,
Andy

Photocamel has one of the best glamour/nude sections (http://www.photocamel.com/index.php/topic,8012.0.html) going, along with this forum. Lorek is a moderator over there.

[weka2000]

I find www.photo.net (http://www.photo.net) great for the gallerys some amazing work there

[Citizensmith]

Photocamel has one of the best glamour/nude sections (http://www.photocamel.com/index.php/topic,8012.0.html) going, along with this forum. Lorek is a moderator over there.

As is another of our members J A F Doorhof.

I prefer the maturity level of our own forums a bit more. Over on photocamel there tends to be a much higher percentage of "Hey, nice rack, oh yeah and pretty good photo too" type comments. :)

[NYC2BGI]

For portrait photographers www.ILovePhotography.com is quite helpful. I have learned a lot over there as well as here. POTN is much bigger than many of the others.

[MazerRakhm]

My browser won't allow me to go to FM, it's been coming here for too long.

I think it's partially because the site used to be blocked here at work, although before it was I signed up, and now that it's not I have no way of either remembering my p/w or resetting it.

[PhotosGuy]

Very brown nose http://photo.klein-jensen.dk/smilies/rotfl2.gif

Other forums exist?

[Steve Parr]

My belief is that the existence of other photography forums is nothing but a vicious rumor...

[zacker]

i love it here but also go to BetterPhoto.com. I dont go there as much as here though, I just like this one lots!
-zacker-

[Alissa Morris]

My browser won't allow me to go to FM, it's been coming here for too long.

I think it's partially because the site used to be blocked here at work, although before it was I signed up, and now that it's not I have no way of either remembering my p/w or resetting it.

Yup, I've had that problem, too.

[scalletti]

dont get me wrong, i love this forum. i have like 130 posts and ive had it for like a month. but im just wondering if you gusy ever go to any other photography forums?
I drop into DPR occasionally, though it is a bit like witnessing a car crash sometimes - you don't want to watch but you just can't help it :). Fred Miranda I find is often slow and I don't like how the forum software is organized (I know not important in the long run, but annoying none the less).

I would recommend http://www.photocamel.com/ if you enjoy friendly discussions as well as have an interest in glamour/erotic photography (as I have). There are some great pros posting there, and if you ask nicely you can get into the 'private club' (hope I haven't spilled the beans :)) which has some excellent, but quite strong, erotica as well as more raucous discussions.

[Becca]

i'll be honest, I found POTN it was exactly what I was needing/wanting.. and have never gone looking for another photography forum...

sari

I agree. POTN is home!

[Citizensmith]

Well yeah its home, but everyone has friends they like to go visit. :)

[GerryDavid]

Ive joined probably 10 photography forums over the years, but I mainly just visit 3 of them.

I had actually forgotten about this forum till recently. I was doing a search for something on google and came accross an article on this forum. I had this forum bookmarked on my notebook, but it stoped working back in January. And then I didnt get an email update from this forum in a while so I didnt get to readd it to my bookmarks on the desktop.

I go to each forum for thier own reasons. Some have good business advice, some have good technical advice, others just have great photographs that are inspiring to see. :0)

Im surprised not to see some of the other forums mentioned here.

[neil_r]

Ahem.. (no one has said it out loud, but you're all thinking it..)

This is THE forum because the MODS are the best online anywhere!!

[/brown nose]
:) cheers


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[Alissa Morris]

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