Critique in the image-sharing subforums

[Corran]

to improve as a photographer, shoot more and talk about it less!

Amen!

[Vaughn]

Don’t ask.

[paulbarden]

I think this forum is more about sharing images for fun and learning techniques for darkroom and camera.
To improve as a photographer, shoot more and talk about it less!

Or don't talk about it at all. Just DO THE WORK.

[Vaughn]

Or talk a lot and do the work. No need for it to be one or the other.

[PatrickMarq]

And that can not happen in a format such as this forum -- egos get involved, and the written word can't carry the required load that a face-to-face discussion can. There is often little effort to understand what the photographer is trying to achieve (and the photographer may have trouble articulating it) that comments given are often just advice on how to make the photo look more like the ones the commenters make...instead of moving the photographer's vision forward.

I think this is the most important piece of this conversation !
Not all people are native English and putting something on email or this forums is much difficult then face tot face and pointing out on the print what could be better

[Tin Can]

Few women feel welcome here

I made forum female friends

Years ago on forum PM

ALL TOLD me when they quit!

I hate boys clubs

[paulbarden]

Few women feel welcome here

I made forum female friends

Years ago on forum PM

ALL TOLD me when they quit!

I hate boys clubs

And this is certainly a boys club, to its detriment.

[Jim Jones]

The first photo forum I followed had plenty of women. For the male chauvinists here, maybe that's why it folded. They may have been more interested in photography than in all the other work that maintaining a forum demands. I still follow a few of them on other "boy's club" forums.

[Michael R]

The lack of self awareness here. Yeesh.

[Chuck Pere]

I thought there was already a procedure for people wanting a critique. Like this one: https://www.largeformatphotography.i...w-Zealand-1987

You need a separate thread for every critique. You just can't stick a bunch of critique comments in a general picture subject thread. So, nothing stopping anyone wanting a clique from doing it.