Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Image of the week "hall of fame"
You may know that Photo SE (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning of 2022 in reverse chronological ...
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Review queue: if you don't want to fix it, Skip instead of No Action Needed
I'm seeing a lot of questions with obvious grammar errors like "geotagging aerial photo's" passed through the review queue. If you are looking at the queue and see something like this but don't feel ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election Results
Photography's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
She'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank her for volunteering, and ...
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Can we please make sense with close reasons?
What is the difference between Canvera and Karizma wedding albums? [on hold] was closed because:
"Questions seeking product or service recommendations are off-topic because they tend to become ...
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Why are people calling this composition question "primarily opinion based"?
A few people have voted to close When does "Fill the frame" become "Too tightly framed"? as primary opinion based. I strongly disagree! Whether a certain composition is good or bad ...
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Let's delete the list-of-photo-competitions question
This is one of those community-wiki experiment questions that I think pretty clearly didn't work out. It's out of date, not very comprehensive, and attracts spam.
What are some good online photo ...
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What resources is Stack Exchange dedicating to meeting the needs of Photography Stack Exchange?
It's been more than six months since this post promising
Generating revenue from non-technology sites will enable us to dedicate more resources to meeting your needs so this is good news.
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We need an Event!
I was thinking about this, courtesy of seeing a "Community Events" link in the mod menu, because wouldn't it be cool to have an "Event" here?
Maybe something like the "World Pentax Day" where on ...
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Call for Photography Gear Grant applicants: May 2012 (Updated)
Update: Grantees for May have been chosen and notified via email. Please check back at the end of the month for a new meta question opening up applications for the June round.
After a trial run and ...
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Lifehacker Syndication Photo Contest: Let's Go!
No Lifehacker contests are currently running. See below for the latest winning submission and check back soon for the next opportunity to have your work published and help us out.
“How to properly ...
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Idea: pic-of-the-week on the site blog?
What do you think about making the Picture of the Week click through to a blog post showing that photo?
We could alter the contest slightly to ask for larger versions for this purpose — many people ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2017 Community Moderator Election
The 2017 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Graphic Design Software Help SE Proposal
A member of the Graphic Design Stack Exchange has proposed a software support exchange specifically for graphic design software such as Photoshop and Lightroom among others. I haven't personally ...
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New review system reduces our ability to help out new users?
So, apparently anonymous edits need to be approved by two people in order to be approved. I approve a lot of edits from new users who are trying to help the site. They're usually both good and ...
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Should we elect an additional mod specifically to help with the contest?
In the discussion on refreshing the photo contest, current mod @MikeW says:
Available mods. There are periods when one or two mods don't visit for a week or more. I try to keep the "weekly" contest ...
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Please help reopen a general question on exposure factors
It often happens that we get questions from new users who don't understand the relationship between aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and lighting. And, it's often suggested that these questions are ...
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Image of the Week "Hall of Fame" (2013 Archive)
You may know that https://photo.stackexchange.com/ (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning of the current year in ...
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Picture of the week theme for contest starting July 30th: Science
The theme for the contest running the week of July 30th will be "Science". Submit your best work which fits within the theme and all the usual rules. The winning photo will be displayed beginning ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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What is the licence on the photo used in this "Deep Space Image" question?
May I use your image What kind of camera do I need to capture deep space images? as my cover photo on FB?
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Image of the Week “Hall of Fame” (2014 Archive)
You may know that https://photo.stackexchange.com/ (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning of the current year in ...
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How should we insert/link to online images of others?
There seems to be a convention here where photos belonging to others are text-linked, not hot-linked. But I would much rather see the image in Q&As than have to click through links that are ...
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Let's delete or lock the what-blogs-to-read question
What blogs should I be following if I am learning photography?
This question has a lot of votes, but is a poorly maintained community wiki. It has had one non-spam update in the past year. And most ...
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organisation tag should be organization
As noted here British English vs. American English in tags, we generally leave questions in the language variant in which they were asked, but tags are standardized as American English. That means ...
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Image of the week “hall of fame” (2012 Archive)
You may know that https://photo.stackexchange.com/ (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning in reverse ...
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Tag Map for Photo.SE
I've just made a map of tags for Photography - StackExchange.
In short: tag size is related to tag popularity and edges are related to tag co-occurrences in questions. Different colors were used for ...
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Image of the Week “Hall of Fame” (2020 Archive)
You may know that https://photo.stackexchange.com/ (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning of 2020 in ...
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Tag creation request: smart-previews
I just asked (and answered) a question that was related to Lightroom smart previews, and there are lots of other questions about Lightroom smart previews on Photography Stack Exchange. Do you think we ...
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Why is the photo contest in Meta and not in the Main?
I think the photo contest is the most interesting thing on the site and should get even more importance!
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Where are our Help Center pages deficient or lacking?
This question is inspired by the Help spot deficiencies in our Help Center meta-question over at CodeReview.SE.
Just about every community, organization, business, government, etc., is governed by ...
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Image of the Week “Hall of Fame” (2015 Archive)
You may know that https://photo.stackexchange.com/ (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning of 2015 in reverse ...
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Tag: Triggers is ambiguous
Looks like triggers is used for both flash triggers and shutter triggers.
My recommendation would be to move shutter trigger questions to shutter-release and then specify that triggers is for flash ...
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Image of the week "hall of fame" (2011 Archive)
You may know that https://photo.stackexchange.com/ (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning in reverse ...
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Image of the week “hall of fame” (2010 Archive)
You may know that https://photo.stackexchange.com/ (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning in reverse ...
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Call for Photography Gear Grant applicants: July 2012
The purpose of this program is to generate content about photography gear that is either very common or very new and exciting - basically, to help ensure that if people are searching for answers to ...
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The "digital-photography" tag -- how to use it, and how to describe it?
I suggested this tag wiki for digital-photography:
Digital photography clearly is the bulk of picture-taking today; this tag doesn't need to be on everything that is digital, but can be used when ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Image of the Week “Hall of Fame” (2021 Archive)
You may know that Photo SE (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning of 2021 in reverse chronological ...
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Image of the Week “Hall of Fame” (2019 Archive)
You may know that https://photo.stackexchange.com/ (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning of 2019 in ...
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Is a reference to Ken Rockwell in an answer more or less divisive and provocative than a divisive, provocative comment about Ken Rockwell?
If Ken Rockwell stating in a lens review that "an f/4.5 lens is slow" is provocative and divisive, what is the following comment¹ to an answer to this question?
Apparently it was divisive and ...
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Image of the Week “Hall of Fame” (2018 Archive)
You may know that https://photo.stackexchange.com/ (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning of the current year in ...
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Image of the Week “Hall of Fame” (2016 Archive)
You may know that https://photo.stackexchange.com/ (this site's parent :) has a "Photo of the week" contest.
Here are all the images featured on the homepage from the beginning of 2016 in reverse ...
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Should this question(upgrade this or that) be on hold?
The following question was open for a year and a half and is now [On Hold]:
Should I upgrade my body or lens first?
It is a quite common question of a new photographer to start to get interested in ...
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Reopen question about DSLR video rail systems
The question What is a "rail system"? What about rods? was closed as a duplicate of What is a focusing rail?. Since the former is about rail systems used to mount additional equipment (e.g. ...
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Merger of "corrupt/incomplete" and "deleted" images on CF cards questions?
I'm not really sure if we should merge the following two questions about CF cards, or leave them as separate questions. Deletion is one thing, where as corruption is something different, and may ...
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