plantladylin said:I'm an organized person and I like to be able to quickly locate something that I want to re-read again rather than having to go through page after page of info to find what I'm looking for so I've copied and pasted into a word document some of the tutorials here that I want to be able to easily find. :)

I do the same thing when researching something online: copy-paste large blocks of text into a doc I can underline, highlight and edit. I also keep a link to the original so I can find it again.

If you find that you've boiled down long threads into short paragraphs, I hope you post your "Reader's Digest" extracts as a blog, and then provide a link to it!

Perhaps noting the original authors or embedding links to the original posts would address the copyright and "authorship" issues of quoting other people at length.

I'm delighted that this forum "goes both ways", intending to help both beginners and experts.

I promise to try even harder to stay ON-TOPIC within specific threads.

Anne, please don't give up on us... many of us definitely need the basic information, but also may gain something from more advanced instruction. Right now there's a LOT going on in this forum and a little hard to keep up with (if a person isn't following it full time), but we WILL catch up! Or at least some of us will... or we'll catch partway up... or something

Thank you Anne and everyone that is willing to share their knowledge here!!

Weedwhacker said:Anne, please don't give up on us... many of us definitely need the basic information, but also may gain something from more advanced instruction. Right now there's a LOT going on in this forum and a little hard to keep up with (if a person isn't following it full time), but we WILL catch up! Or at least some of us will... or we'll catch partway up... or something

Thank you Anne and everyone that is willing to share their knowledge here!!

MR

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What in the world is going on here?
I really don't see anything getting straighter...
Please forgive my ignorance--I really don't understand how 'this', whatever it is, is 'supposed' to work, but I can read. I can pick up a sense of what is between the lines, as well. My interpretation could be way off base, granted. I'm going with it anyway because it is what I have.

Anne, clearly you have many things specifically in mind about what you want to see in this forum and these threads within this forum. You also appear to have a target audience in mind for the content and format that you see in your mind. I'm not clear on where/how you have possibly offended people ? which seems to be the concern at the start of this thread...but if I had to take a guess, it would be that thing about requesting folks to notify you if they wish to post something. And then some folks post some things (I even notified you, without being all offended) but it is apparently not what you had in mind for your target audience. And despite all of the comments encouraging your vision, it appears that you are discouraged about the whole thing and upset somehow by the posts that do not conform to what you have in mind.

My suggestion to you is: realize that your target audience is here and practically begging you to make your vision a reality. Please proceed.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are here, too. Please also try to accept the fact that not everyone fits where we try to put them. And as evermorelawnless said "people learn (and even store knowledge) in different ways". Me, for example. I have never read a camera manual. I literally learned about f-stops exactly as I posted, with pictures of batteries--except they were taken on a dirty kitchen counter--about 6 months ago. Once I saw the results of fiddling with the thing called an f-stop, I chose to learn more. Gotta start somewhere I guess.

I really didn't want to learn about the technical aspects of photography. I didn't especially yearn to learn new words and strive to understand the dependent relationships in the triangle of exposure factors. I really just wanted to take better pictures and I'm still very much a beginner in this learning process. I find it hilarious that my post is "very far from basic" and belongs in a "more advanced category", although I suppose I should be flattered or something.

Point is--I really don't know enough to assign a "level of knowledge being covered" in the subject line so I just called it, 'how I learned about...' It helped me and who knows? maybe it will resonate with someone. If it doesn't, I haven't lost anything (except a little time, which I tend to waste freely in less potentially productive ways on this site as it is so that doesn't count much). When I learn more, I might like to share again, as long as I don't have to hazard a guess at my own knowledge level.

I'd like to think that the photography forum has room for all of us
and considering this:
This forum is dedicated to the technical discussion of photography as it relates to gardening. It is not a gallery of photos but rather a place for helping each other become better photographers.
We all have much to learn from each other--I really hope nobody feels held back.

oh, wow! i missed the whole thing as just was busy with other stuff.
i'm not a beginner and i wa playing with f-stops in the 60s with my dads slr's. but i've using my camera MOSTLY on auto, since very often is plenty with a good modern camera for a casual shot.
i haven't even started looking at posts (discovered this new forum a few days back) - and it's already folding?!
please!
there're always growing pains and misunderstandings...it def can be overcome. let's just slow down, take a pause. why the rush? (it's a heavy load season, yah know ?!
i dont' know where to run and what to do...THE FALL IS HERE!!! - thrones ref for those watching....NOT a fan, but i scan thru on occasion;)).
there'll be more time in just a few weeks for all lesson and reading and all good things. and the whole dead winter is just about perfect too
it's a VERY GOOD THING to have this new forum. Perhaps, it was a bit too much for starters for...the mods? - not being disrespectful, just don't know the people involved yet.
perhaps, it's TOO MUCH interest from everybody? but it's great!
perhaps, other folks will come up with pointers,etc to lighten the load?
just give it some time! you can't keep everybody happy. but we can work it out, i am sure.

Nobody's foldin' nothin'!

Personally, I'm working on (even as we speak...er, I distractedly type) shooting shots for a thread on budget macro photography: Rube Goldberg, Macro Photography, and YOU. Takes a while to write stuff up and illustrate it.

I think there are a lot of folks who are interested. Anne made a good post last week in her series. And a couple of other threads are wandering along. I think that as the photography contest nears / gets going, we'll see even more interest.

I have a lot of topics in mind - some pretty off-the-wall stuff too...but it just takes some time to get it out of my brain, at least.

Anyway, I love this forum. EVERYONE....please teach me stuff!

evermorelawnless said:Nobody's foldin' nothin'!

Personally, I'm working on (even as we speak...er, I distractedly type) shooting shots for a thread on budget macro photography: Rube Goldberg, Macro Photography, and YOU. Takes a while to write stuff up and illustrate it.

I think there are a lot of folks who are interested. Anne made a good post last week in her series. And a couple of other threads are wandering along. I think that as the photography contest nears / gets going, we'll see even more interest.

I have a lot of topics in mind - some pretty off-the-wall stuff too...but it just takes some time to get it out of my brain, at least.

Anyway, I love this forum. EVERYONE....please teach me stuff!

MR

i was like panicked for a moment...

Hang in there! "Breathe in; breathe out. Count to 10 -- 10 times if need be." Lots of good advice people manage to give us!

Thanks for the advice. I have wanted to take a class but the ones near me are at night and I don't drive then with my glaucoma.

Teresa