New 'Other Photography' Topic/Forum?

[daws]

Another vote for "Other Photographic Genres."

[fike]

I don't much like "Other Photographic Genres."  That widens the category to cover too much.  I suggest two things:

1) making a few stickies for long threads (like subcategories) on cars or trees or barns or nudes or whatever
2) making a new forum category about street photography

If I had to say what specific type of photography has been most popular at LuLa, it would be landscape.  Second most popular would be street photography.  We should focus on a genre of photography that clearly has a substantial talent and mindshare (including Michael's) here at LuLa. I think that is street photography. If I had a nickel for every time that Bresson was reverently mentioned I would be rich.  On the other hand quoting Ansel Adams is almost dismissed as cliche.

[RobbieV]

I think "other photographic genres" will work well so long as you leave it up to the members to start specified topic posts. Too many sub-forums drives down traffic and makes things needlessly complicated. On the Landscape side, this has already happened with the cars/clouds threads. Let us start threads of similar nature in the new forum Subtopic in the same manner and it will work well IMO.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

If anything, the board needs consolidation, pruning, not expansion. That does not mean there wouldn't be a place for "other photographic genres" in a consolidated forum, however.

[Chris Sanderson]

If anything, the board needs consolidation, pruning, not expansion....

I tend to agree - however there is no elegant way of consolidating fora. (eg Combocams with Motion & Video)

Short of moving every single darn topic within a forum, deletion appears to be the only way - I am not doing either at this point - which is why you have not seen any change.

I'll chat with Mark Guertin & Michael about it.