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Re: Why I hate 500px

It depends on what you want out of one.

Most seem to be dying on the vine, and the few active ones that I've stumbled across are more about general chit chat (open talk) than actual photography. There are some where "nice shot" comments still rule, but active knowledge sharing is kind of rare.

I'm not aware of a good critique site any longer.

Social media groups seem to be the norm now, where any camera owner can post whatever, whenever without regard.

Cygnus Studios

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Re: Post your BIF photos here

For hummingbird moths I really prefer to add flash to stop their wings - I have gotten several shots of them over the years in our backyard. They can be challenging, but I think hummingbirds up close with telephotos are some of the hardest for me to grab. Because they can fly in any of six directions I think.

pathfinder

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Re: Phanfare Refugees

Last December, I paid a SmugMug customizer to transfer my 8,000 family photos to SmugMug and create a site that resembles the Phanfare one I had used for 12 years. It may help you to see how close he came. Compare “New Mexico" in Phanfare (http://albums.phanfare.com/isolated/BRGa78hm/1/14330945) and SmugMug (https://murawski.smugmug.com/2015-2019/2016/New-Mexico) (the lighter Phanfare background is a recent change of mine).

SmugMug photos open faster than Phanfare's, and SmugMug's collage layout looks more modern than Phanfare’s odd version, but SmugMug is a pain to work in. Right-click options for deleting photos and other everyday tasks are sorely needed. Adding "A favorite part of the world (August 2016)” below the New Mexico breadcrumbs required a workaround unknown to SmugMug's tech support. And you can’t isolate a portion of a SmugMug site as you can in Phanfare; breadcrumbs let viewers open everything. Then, as others have reported, photos don't transfer to SmugMug in quite their Phanfare order, and rearranging them takes endless hours.

SmugMug would have fewer emails to answer if it created some how-to’s or templates for making Phanfare-like sites. Lacking them and any interest in learning SmugMug from scratch, I worked with @jerryr (http://www.jrcustomization.com) to jumpstart things.

Finally, I can’t figure why Carbonite bothered to buy Phanfare and then let it languish and die. As for the short notice about closure, it’s inexcusable.

writing1

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Strike a Pose - Posing Guide

I think it's safe for me to say that one of the most difficult skills with portraiture is posing. It is key to creating spectacular portraits. I often save images of poses I like so I can use them as a reference so I thought, why not create a stickied thread where we can share some of our own favorite poses?

So... please add your photo(s) of some poses you've shot that you love. Add a description of the pose if you'd like. Remember, only your own photos though. Have to follow the rules. :deal

I'll start the thread off with a triptych of a series seated poses:

anonymouscuban

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Re: Food & Drink Open thread

There are very few things I don't like about life in Bavaria and one is not being able to buy fresh poblano chiles. :-( canned chiles via the Internet... sigh. And corn tortillas aren't so easily available either.

On the other hand, there's plenty of beer to be found...

sarasphotos

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Re: Food & Drink Open thread

...the camera is being held level, the table is sitting on a steep hill!

sarasphotos

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Re: How to make fine hyperlinks

You can place HTML in the caption using an <a href= statement.

For example:
<a href="https://jb-photos.smugmug.com/">Jørgen Bjerring's site</a>

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_href.asp

denisegoldberg

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Re: The Never Ending Alphabet Game Challenge!

X is for XV

Jørgen_Bjerring

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Re: Show Us Your New SmugMug Customized Sites!

Welcome to SmugMug and DGrin. Per your request here are a few options/observations:

Personal preference - The auto slide show is going way to fast. Suggest you slow it down or just set it to display a static image on each refresh
FB link - the lack of recent, regular posts makes the side trip to FB unnecessary
Twitter - Regular posts are good for Twitter but they do not relate to your photography - don’t see it as necessary
IG - Looks like it’s kept up to date. Suggest you turn some of the IG posts into blog posts.
Wordpress button and Blog link are the same - suggest you only keep one
Blog - explore the SmugMug tools - match your blog to the rest of the site. Suggest you search links for a couple of wonderful DGrin contributors, Denise Goldberg and Hiking Mike - they both have nicely incorporated blogs on their sites
Search - Not sure what you expect people to be searching for - suggest you remove the link. If you decide to keep the feature, provide some help text on the page…offer suggestions on what can be searched.
Profile - Suggest you incorporate an About Me page in SmugMug rather than linking to your blog.

9 - Note site related but during my browsing of your site I saw a few crooked horizon lines. Suggest you make sure your photos are straight before posting.

@BeautifulWorld said:
I moved from Pbase (my site for over a decade) to Smugmug and I must say I am so happy I did. It feels like I am back in the 21st century.

See my new site here... http://www.beautifulworld.photography/

Would love feedback and tips.

Thanks

Karthik

uncool

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Re: Boston Protests

Liking 3, 5, and 6 the most. In these photos the signs do not grab my attention before the people.

rainbow

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