Some Ideas For Improving The Photo Project

[Loupey]

Just some thoughts....

Make the submissions unlimited. Encourage people to shoot, learn, reshoot, improve. People should feel free to post images from day 1.

Encourage image submissions to be from the current month. I for one do not like seeing recurring images from people's archives. Not much of a "project" if all people are doing are going through their files. I've done it before too.

Here's where I depart from everyone - get rid of the featured photo for this forum and DON'T do a poll. Polls tend to become popularity contests and having any flavor of a "contest" will keep new members (especially those new to photography in general) intimidated to participate. I imagine if I just learned how take and upload pictures, I wouldn't want to share where there was a monthly poll/featured photo with a lot of long-time members giving each other at-a-boys.

[Loupey]

Ever notice that it is very rare to see a post by a new member in the Project Forum? I don't think I've ever seen a "hi, guys, here's my submission... it's my first post on this site..." kind of post over here.

There is some implied formality that should be addressed in order to invite more people to participate.



Or maybe people just aren't shooting like they used to.

[Grandpaw]

Just some thoughts....

Here's where I depart from everyone - get rid of the featured photo for this forum and DON'T do a poll. Polls tend to become popularity contests and having any flavor of a "contest" will keep new members (especially those new to photography in general) intimidated to participate. I imagine if I just learned how take and upload pictures, I wouldn't want to share where there was a monthly poll/featured photo with a lot of long-time members giving each other at-a-boys.

This is what I was trying to say in my post.

From my post, "At the end of the month let everyone decide for themselves which picture they liked the best".

To me this is set up as a project to get members to try new things. If we need to have a photo contest then we can have that also, but separate, Jeff