Proposed new galleries

[Overread]

After user discussion its come under debate by the mods as to if we should take our current "Photojournalism & Sports Gallery" and divide it into the following arrangement'

Sports Gallery
Photojournalism and street photography Gallery

(names not yet fixed).
The intent being that we are seeing an increase in journalistic style photography which is now strong enough to support its own section outside of its joint shared gallery with sports. Meanwhile sports itself still generates enough interest to retain a functional subsection.

Street photography is also a growing (on site) popular subject area that at present has no fixed home and filters into other galleries. The thinking is that Journalism and Street can fit together in the same gallery and share the same spot - at least in the short term unless we see a huge surge of both or either subject areas.

 

[robbins.photo]

Three legged Omahan tigers? Believe it or not I have a couple of shots that would be perfect! Lol

 

[pixmedic]

i would rather see a wedding and portrait section. certainly we get as much, if not more, "portrait" sessions (baby to senior) than we do sports or PJ.

 

[bentcountershaft]

I think we should just get rid of all the galleries and have one, single thread for everything.

 

[KmH]

Street photography is genre that is part of photo journalism as is sports photography, and I think we get more sports photography than we do street photography.

I would rather see the number of forums reduced by some consolidation rather than be expanded by splitting off new forums.

Start a Street thread in the Photo Themes forum section or replace the rarely used The Lensbabies Place sub-forum with Street Photography.

 

[480sparky]

Three legged Omahan tigers? Believe it or not I have a couple of shots that would be perfect! Lol

Ah, man. The closest I have is a 3-legged Bengal. :er:

 

[sashbar]

Street photography is genre that is part of photo journalism as is sports photography.

I do not want to start a discussion here, but I am afraid H. Cartier-Bresson (and lots of street photographers) will disagree. The great man was quite clear about the difference between these two separate genres.

 

[Overread]

i would rather see a wedding and portrait section. certainly we get as much, if not more, "portrait" sessions (baby to senior) than we do sports or PJ.

Well we do sort of have a portrait section called People Photography, I'd be concerned that opening up something just for portraits would lead to a bit too much overlap between the two. Weddings could go on its own although it would end up being torn between if it should be a pro gallery or a normal gallery.

I think we should just get rid of all the galleries and have one, single thread for everything.

We tried that
Everyone posting in beginners doesn't work

Street photography is genre that is part of photo journalism as is sports photography, and I think we get more sports photography than we do street photography.

I would rather see the number of forums reduced by some consolidation rather than be expanded by splitting off new forums.

Start a Street thread in the Photo Themes forum section or replace the rarely used The Lensbabies Place sub-forum with Street Photography.

I think the problem with themes is that whilst they are nice they don't encourage any conversation or discussion about the topic itself. They really are purely a gallery experience.
Consolidation would be nice, sadly with the site hitting all photographic genres as we get more traffic and have to adapt to shifts in what's popular (and also to an extent encourage things) I don't foresee being able to reduce the galleries (about the only one we could take down is Darkside).

Certainly sports, journalist and street photography are all their own individual areas; offering them as a combined gallery aims to try and blend similar subjects whilst not overloading us and also ensuring active use of the gallery itself.

 

[Derrel]

The more, separate galleries this site is fragmented into, the closer the site comes to , "Death from a thousand paper cuts." With more and more people accessing the site on mobile devices, the more-awkward and tedious, and click-sucking the site becomes with the addition of each and every SINGLE "new" fragmentation somebody slaps into place thinking "it's a good idea!".

Creating two galleries out of one because we had one picture of a human cremation posted, and some people were offended, is a bad reason to split a gallery up into to, two separated, smaller, less-interestring, less content-filled gallery sections. Diluting the drinks at the bar might "seem" like a good idea, but after a while, the patrons catch on, and go elsewhere.

 

[robbins.photo]

Three legged Omahan tigers? Believe it or not I have a couple of shots that would be perfect! Lol

Ah, man. The closest I have is a 3-legged Bengal. :er:

Well as long as he's from Omaha - I think that works. Or maybe if you could just show him a picture of Omaha.. that might qualify. Gads.. ok, maybe this making a whole bunch of new forums deal is going to be more complicated than it looks.. lol

 

[480sparky]

I'm with Darrel on this. Creating too many galleries will make it far too complicated to navigate.

On another forum, I started posting my old K25 slide scans. And the mods kept moving them all over nilly-willy. At first, they were in the Film section. Then, they decided they belong in the Digital Processing section (since they are digital scans). Then a short hiatus in the General area. And since they were taken over the course of several decades, one mod thought they should be in the Travel forum as they were taken from Connecticut to California.

Then all hell broke loose when I posted one that was a B&W conversion...............

 

[pixmedic]

so why cant both views happen?
maybe we can scrap some sections that are never/seldom used, and replace them with sections that WILL get used.

 

[ratssass]

so why cant both views happen?
maybe we can scrap some sections that are never/seldom used, and replace them with sections that WILL get used.

WINNER!!

 

[480sparky]

I know forum groups can be 'hidden'.... why not individual forums? Does the forum software allow this? For instance, if I didn't want to look at the Wedding, or Portrait, or Dead Bodies forums, I can 'hide' them and I will never see them.

I do this for a few forum groups.

 

[limr]

We don't get as many street photos so there shouldn't be a separate forum...or do we not get as many street photos because there is no good place to put them? Which is the chicken and which is the egg?

I agree that too many forums can be a bad thing, but it should be fluid and organic. At some point there may have been more call for a dedicated Lensbaby forum but it doesn't seem to get used too often anymore and might be better off absorbed into a different topic. In the same way, Sports and Photojournalism may have seemed better off combined, but as they are growing more and more separate, then maybe it does both topics a service to give them their own rooms.