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Carl Auer Registered: Mar 15, 2004 Total Posts: 9074 Country: United States |
Ok guys. While I have not been posting a lot like I use to (down to like a post a week from 8 to 20 a day), I am here, I am watching, and I am working in a lot of new photo venues. I still shoot sports, but I am doing a lot of portraits (seniors, family, etc), architectural, and news shooting. It keeps me bust, and my time on the computer now is mainly spent editing photos than prepping some to share here. That should get easier soon, so I will be sharing more work later. But, just because I am not visible all the time, I am watching and catching stuff as I can. So lets chat.
Other than those specific topics, please use the gear boards. 2. Posting - The main purpose of photography is to take photos, but what good are these photos if you do not share them? This is a Sports Photography presentation board, and you are encouraged to share your photos. By sharing your photos you can learn from listening to critiques from others to help you make better pictures and you can teach others by answering questions like gear used, lighting, Exif information, and more. But just because you have 500 photos you want to share, please do not post them all here. Posts that receive the most constructive critiques contain between 5 and 10 photos. This is a good number that people will take the time to look at each photo and comment on each one individually. If you really want to share more than 10, create a gallery (FM offers hosting here) elsewhere and provide a link to it. It is also a good idea to limit the images in linked galleries, as most people will not look at a 10 page gallery with 50 photos on each page. Not posting images but links to images, or links to pages with the images is fine, but will not result in as many comments. Now, some images do need to be linked, and those images are covered in the FM Rules link above. 3. Critiques - When giving or receiving critiques, please, listen to them, and please act in a professional manor. If an image is posted and you are commenting on it, instead of posting "It sucks" or "Sweet!!!", expand on that comment. Why do you think it sucks? What do you think could have been done to make it better? I would prefer you not use the term sucks, but I am using it as a negative example. If the image is sweet, why? What do you like about it. When receiving a critique, whether you like it or not, there will be negative responses along with positive responses. Do not let the negatives get to you, but try to learn from them. If someone gives you a harsh critique, telling you that all your images "suck", look at what they are talking about, learn from it and apply what you learn to the next time you are out shooting. Not one of us can make a perfect, award quality photo every single time we hit the shutter button, but we can get closer to that by learning from each image we post. 4. Professionalism - This has really been lacking a lot lately. I am seeing a lot of conflict here lately that honestly tick me off. Some of them are coming from long time, positive members. Do not be baited into a verbal battle with people on the open forums. It will make others view you with less respect and it takes away from the site. If you just can not hold your tongue, use the pm or email buttons and keep it out of the open forum. Think before you post. Will this post piss Fred or Carl off? Will this cause an uproar in the Sports Corner? If you think it could fuel a already burning fire, or start a fire, please, do not make that post. It is not worth it on any level. 5. I want a job! - Please do not post classifieds here. If you want a job shooting, or if you need help shooting, this is not the place to post those requests. Once one is posted, the board gets flooded with requests like this and that is not something we want here. Please use other resources like CraigsList, or if you are a member, the SportsShooter site for these types of requests. And to draw from 4. above, be professional. If you are a good shooter, but get into verbal altercations here, and myself or other pro members happen across a job in your are that we may need help with, or can not do and want to recommend someone else to them, you might just miss out. As an example, I hooked a member here up as an assistant to Robert Seale when he was with the Sporting News. If this member would have been a jerk, I do not care how good a shooter he was, I would not have given him this opportunity. But he posted regularly, wanted to learn everything he could, accepted critiques as a learning experience, applied what he learned into his shooting, assisted others with tips and critiques, and is now a working photographer. I also mentioned in this point SportsShooter..... 6. I need a sponsor - No. These posts will be locked or deleted. Period. The FM Forums are not the place to ask for a sponsor to SportsShooter. If you need to find one, be a positive member of the boards. Actively participate in critiques, post photos and show each time you shoot and post that you are trying to get better and better, and you will make friends. Many members here are SportsShooter members, and as you earn respect here and become an asset to these boards, or at least someone who is professional and shows that they want to learn and become a better photographer, you will be able to find someone who may sponsor you. But ask via PM and do not pester SS members. I can tell you that when I sponsor someone, it is not an easy process. Ask Tazo. I sponsored him as soon as he was old enough, and it was a long process of getting dozens and dozens of his select images down to 10 stellar images to submit to SS, and even then, he was denied his first time. But then he got in, and now he has walked away with the best student portfolio at the SportsShooter Academy. But it was not an easy deal. I personally will make you cry with harsh critiques because I want you to bring me your best, because that is what SportsShooter deserves from FM, the best. Please follow the rules Fred has set out for us, and these simple Sports Corner posting guides. |
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Carl Auer Registered: Mar 15, 2004 Total Posts: 9074 Country: United States |
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