This forum is intended as a place where photographs may be presented to the photo.net community for critique. It is NOT a Q&A forum. There are other image critique sites out there but I feel that it is important that photo.net have a relatively unrestricted general photo critique forum.

Image size should be limited to ~80k and under. If you think a small version of your masterpiece just does not have the same impact, then provide a link to a larger version.

All images should meet a minimum technical standard. Poorly scanned images will be deleted as a meaningful critique is impossible with a very low quality image. Do not submit "snapshots". This means no pictures of your new grandson posted "because he just so cute." Images should be representative of your best work, not a throw away shot that is "sort of interesting". If you are an aspiring pornographer please post you images to alt.sex.binaries, they will be deleted if posted here. Artistic nudes are acceptable. Note that "artistic" is not easy to define but chances are that if your image would be likely to be published in "Hustler" it's not "artistic".

This forum currently does not support image uploading. This means that you must host your image elsewhere and provide an inline link to it in your post.

How to post an image.

Step one: Upload your image to your website or a free hosting service. If you have a website you should be familiar with uploading files to your directories.

Step two: Figure out the address of your image. It should be at the same address as your webpage. Let's say my webpage is at http://www.myisp.com/~joe/index.html and that I uploaded an image named dog1.jpg. My image should be at http://www.myisp.com/~joe/dog1.jpg. I test this by typing "http://www.myisp.com/~joe/dog1.jpg" into my browser and pressing enter. I should now see my image in my browser window.

Step three: Post your message and image to the General Photo Critique forum. The first line of your post should be the link to your image. It should look like:
<img src="http://www.myisp.com/~joe/dog1.jpg">
Replace the red text with the address of your image.(The part that you figured out in step two). Include any information you want such as a caption or tech data on your camera.

I have asked Philip to enable uploading for this forum. I don't think that LUSENET even supports the abilty in the current version. However, most of the work has been done. The code has been added to the toolkit and is available for download from ArsTechnica. The tricky part would be working around any kludges that are present in the old LUSENET code and database structure. It would still require alot of work(time) from Philip and others. I fully understand that this is no small thing to ask for. We will see what happens when he returns from vacation.

There are many sites that offer free hosting of images. Use a search engine to find them.

Questions belong in the General Q&A, they will be deleted if posted here.

This forum is intended to be MUCH LESS restrictive than the General Q&A forum. You are welcome to submit photos for critique that would not make the cut on the General Q&A forum. This does not mean that criticism will be any "softer" here. If you post a crummy image, expect to be told that it is crummy. This is NOT a catchall place for bad photos. I expect that serious amateurs will be the largest contributors here.

I hope that this provides an acceptable solution for those who disagree with the photo critique policies of the General Q&A. It is my belief that photo critiques do not belong in the Q&A and I hope that the bulk of them will move to this new forum.

-- Joe Perrigoue (joe@supply.com), August 25, 1999

Answers

Hey Joe, you mean I am forced to post my photograph on a web page I create in order for it to be submitted. What a gloriously dumb idea. Sorry - no cigar. Count me gone.

-- Steve Bingham (sbingham@ispchannel.com), August 30, 1999.

Hmm... This is also how the Nature Photography Image Critique works, and is how Qiang Li's page worked until recently (now you can upload images; he prefers you still secure your own hosting, however). There are free image hosting sites all over; this isn't anything new, or bad. Lighten up.

-- Scott (bliorg@yahoo.com), August 30, 1999.

This is a great idea. I hope that we get some serious postings, I think I will vomit if I see another "flower" photo like on the other critque site....babies, flowers, and pets....uggggh..... I would like to see some of the "artists" that seem to have so much time to post their verbosities on the PHILOSOPHY forum put some of their work here. Are their photo skills are half-as-good as their literary skills?

-- Mark (markphoto@xoommail.com), September 08, 1999.

Just in case that last one was aimed at me... Anyone is welcome to see some (rather old now) images on htt p://homepages.infoseek.com/~alangibson/html/Argphoto.htm. I'm currently working on some images specifically for the web, and if any are any good, I'll stick a couple here.

-- Alan Gibson (Alan.Gibson@technologist.com), September 08, 1999.

No Alan, that was not aimed at you. You do have to admit that there are a number of photographers that you wish would "put their camera where their mouth is" - Its easy to be critical without putting your own work "out there"...

-- Mark (markphoto@xoommail.com), September 09, 1999.