Optimizing Your Set Up / Resource Center

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About Optimizing Your Set Up / Resource Center

PLEASE NOTE THERE IS A CHANGE TO THE PHOTO POOL POSTING POLICY

(Please only post pictures that are part of group threads. Put a comment or note on your picture with a link to the thread in which it is discussed. This way people will be able to surf the pool and go directly to the discussion of a picture they find interesting. If you have posted a picture in a thread that has not been added to the pool, please feel free to do so. Photos not part of a thread will be removed from the pool.)


Have you ever seen a shot and thought, I wish I knew how this was done or I wish I knew what lens was used? Or, perhaps you've wondered what kind of set up considerations might one encounter for night photography, or for shooting a wedding?

In an attempt to straddle the lines between technology and technique, this is a forum for discussing gear and photographic technique as it relates to a specific means. For example, what piece of gear and/or photographic technique will help one to achieve a particular goal or what is the essential set up for a particular type of photography, (wedding photographer, landscape artist, sports photographer, photojournalist, portrait artist, etc.),

Please feel free to start a thread. All I ask is that they be intended to create an educational exchange about a technique, its related equipment or a type of photography. General gear questions, can be posted as well in the interest of discussing their usefullness in specific applications. This is not a great place to ask if you should use a UV filter or not. There are lots of great places on Flickr for that. Let's try to keep the topics less general in nature and more about specific, artistic goal.

If you are like me, sometimes finding specific information is a challenge. The Technical Resource Reference Thread is an ever-expanding, categorized listing of useful links. If you have a good link, please contribute to the thread. All technical/technique links are welcome.

If you post a picture in a thread, please post it in the pool as well. Reference it with a comment in your picture as to which thread it appears in the Optimizing Your Set Up Group. This way somone might check out a thread based on your great picture and learn something about it.

Interesting pictures that demonstrate a gear or technique connection to this group are welcome. Perhaps a comment or note in your picture would be useful as well, explaining what is being demonstrated to the group. Thanks.

This forum welcomes discussion regarding digital and film photography.

I've tried to jump start the discussion and kick it into a direction by createing a few threads, please don't limit yourself to these, feel free to create new threads.

Please invite anyone you think might benefit from or be a benefit to this group. The more input, the more opportunity for all of us to learn.