New Photographic Forum

Certainly, on brief experience, it’s going well.

I imagine the actual airshow pics forum will go pretty quiet over the winter, but I’d guess that the technical section will be crammed with people discussing which bit of kit to pawn their missus for.

The Historic forum, meanwhile, is a lot more like it used to be a few years back.

Moggy

I got wind short-notice that the Airshow forum was coming. But the Tutorial section is a revelation. Now we have the latter, we can post away without feeling we’re treading on historical toes. Well done who ever thought of that sub-forum!

Interesting – the photo forum has been going for three days.

We already have more ‘Historic’ threads than usual in the forum, and over on Photographic, it would seem there are more threads than we would normally expect following a weekend. Looks like a case of win-win to me!

Bruce

Planejunky, yes, that, and also having 10 times the same “Spitstangerschmitt” photographed under the same angle.

This seems to be a very sensible idea. Thanks Webby and all concerned, well done.

The way I understand it is that the photo forum has been started to stop the posting of non-historic photo’s such as F-15’s and tonka’s, on this forum.

Great move webby, thanks for listening.

Many thanks to ‘Webby and the Mods’.

cheers
Kilvy

Cheers Moggy

Geoff.

I was wondering how long it would take for some feedback

Maybe some thanks are due to Webby for diverting himself from his main tasks to create it?

Moggy

Here, here. Many thanks Webby!

A few questions just to get things clear.

If I want to post a series of non-airshow aviation related photos with no text only captions, do they still go in ‘Historic’?

What if I want to post a series of photos from a visit to a museum, again with no text only captions, such as my recent Brooklands visit? Do they go in ‘Historic’?

Finally, what if I want to post images with no text but captions of an airshow from the 1990s back? Do these go in ‘Historic’ or ‘Airshows’?

Geoff.

Yes, yes and yes.

We did discuss the idea of a museum photo forum, but the main driver for the creation of the photo forum was the mass postings after major events.

So unless you decide to take the whole phalanx of photographers from here on a trip with you to the museum it is unlikely the historic forum will be flooded with lots of images similar to your own.

Likewise the 1990s airshow. Unless the same idea occurs to everybody simultaneously there won’t be a problem.

There will always be borderline cases, and in truth it doesn’t really matter if you get it ‘wrong’ because the mods will move it.

Moggy

A few questions just to get things clear.

If I want to post a series of non-airshow aviation related photos with no text only captions, do they still go in ‘Historic’?

What if I want to post a series of photos from a visit to a museum, again with no text only captions, such as my recent Brooklands visit? Do they go in ‘Historic’?

Finally, what if I want to post images with no text but captions of an airshow from the 1990s back? Do these go in ‘Historic’ or ‘Airshows’?

Geoff.

If someone attends an airshow / event / museum and posts lots of images on historic but hoping to stimulate a discussion, will it be moved tot he photographics section or is at the posters discretion as to where it should go?

Same goes for a thread in the airshow section that generates more words than pictures, will that be moved to the historic side?

Best regards, Steve

In truth, we don’t know.

Mods do have the option to ‘split’ a thread, so it might be that an image thread that starts an interesting disussion could be split and the discussion moved to Historic, leaving the images here.

Lets see how it pans out over the next few weeks.

Moggy

OK.

Thanks to those who’ve made it happen so far. A photo tech forum is a surefire winner IMHO, great.

It’s up to everyone to make it work! Let’s do so.

Cheers

Great idea, just shows what can come about through considerate dialog.

A question for any mod who wishes to answer,

If someone attends an airshow / event / museum and posts lots of images on historic but hoping to stimulate a discussion, will it be moved tot he photographics section or is at the posters discretion as to where it should go?

Same goes for a thread in the airshow section that generates more words than pictures, will that be moved to the historic side?

Best regards, Steve

Cheers

Excellent. Many thanks to Webmaster and Key Publishing for providing us with this facility.

The idea is good to have the photographic forum as it will move all the photo threads there…(and possibly take all the ‘will it be at legends?’ questions with it ;)).

It is anticipated that shows will still have text (or image-light) threads here on historic. The photographic forum is not the place to discuss the quality of the flying or technical details of the aircraft and their history.

I fear that means the the institution of “Will it be at…” will still appear here 🙂

Moggy

The idea is good to have the photographic forum as it will move all the photo threads there…(and possibly take all the ‘will it be at legends?’ questions with it ;)).

I would have liked a link from the historic forum to the photo forum… if i am logging in direct to the historic forum thru a book mark, i would n’t knw that the other forum is there… plus navigation would be easy.

I was wondering how long it would take for some feedback

Maybe some thanks are due to Webby for diverting himself from his main tasks to create it?

Moggy