Critique Forum Rules

[Saralonde]

We want everyone to have fun and learn here at DPS. In order to insure that, there are some rules you need to follow when posting in the Critique sections:

Only ONE new critique request per day (24 hour period) for ENTIRE critique section. Choose your image carefully.

1. Please post only ONE image in the thread. If you need to show more, link it to your set. If you post more than one, the other will be deleted at the moderators discretion.
2. Please keep images to 740px on the longest side. Mods reserve the right to resize oversize images or delete them until resized. This is easy to put up the proper size if you use flickr. If you feel it is necessary for us to see a larger size, link to it.
3. We strongly encourage the use of a photosharing site such as flickr, photobucket, zoomr, etc.
4. Please include the following information, if possible, with your image: EXIF info, type of camera, specific questions (What do you think? is not a specific question). A meaningful title, NOT "Critique Please", will also get your post noticed in a crowded section, as well as any additional information you can give about the conditions in which you shot.
5. Only post if you are willing to be critiqued - this isn't a place for showing off, but a place for people to suggest how you can improve. If you don't think you need to improve then this might not be the section of our forums for you.

Helpful threads:

1. Posting Pictures from Photo Sharing Sites (A visual guide)
2. A Very Basic Guide to Critiquing Images
3. FAQ

[Ewie]

Just wondering if someone could please clarify the forum rules regarding EXIF.

Reading the rules, the image should include EXIF which, if loaded onto Flickr, it does and yet we keep getting asked to include EXIF?

If the rule is that the EXIF information should be posted on the thread then perhaps the rules should be a little clearer on this.

Also just a suggestion, perhaps during the planned upgrades/changes for the forum the new thread area could be modified to include a few fields where the required information could be entered. Perhaps these could be mandatory fields so that post could not be uploaded without them? This would make life much easier for everyone, especially the moderators who would no longer need to police EXIF?

Just a suggestion...

[Murtasma]

Ewie, I beleive they are looking into creating a special form for the Critque section but I could be wrong and it will take some time to make. It's prefered that the EXIF information is added to the thread so users don't have to browse to external sites to hunt it down.

Perhaps we need to make EXIF data it's own seperate rule.

[xxpinballxx]

Actually Ewie if everyone just threw the big three up we wouldnt say much at all after all its the ISO Aperture and Shutter that we are looking for to help out in critiquing shots.

Hopefully we will get all the fine tuning done and everyone on the same page in the near future. Bare with us a little while longer.

[Nicole]

Because it helps if someone wants to know why their picture is blurry if you can see that they shot it with a 1/2" exposure or at f/1.8. It may or may not be useful for taking pictures based on the exif (though I know I've found it helpful to know people's settings sometimes), but it is helpful in assessing more technical aspects of the critique.