Fotopic?

With a page of similar looking thumbnails, simply click on, and open, one or two of the best ones. That's what I do, anyway.

 

I am sure this will upset some but it has already been touched upon, fotopic sites did seem to contain a lot of peopels days out and memories that were good for the individual, regrettably there really was some dire and awfull pictures being banded about and perhaps "see my fotopic site" may not be a bad not to see. Now dont get me wrong a a semi professional I have been asked on many occasions by people to give my thoughts on their pictures. My comments were always that so long as the photographs reminded them of their day out and provided memories that they enjoyed looking back on then that is all that mattered.

Regrettably with the modern technological age we live in everybody seemed to have one of these sites, and human curiosity always wants one to have a look, regrettably the compositional,exposure, and more than anything else being in focus was in the main truly awfull.

One railway forum has already had a post saying that thankfully they will not have to endure some postings seemingly being only a plug for peoples fotopic sites. Also as a friend said to me at least when you pick up a magazine you will not have already seen the pics. I do feel sorry for the people who have spent hours uploading pics to this site but in the main this photographer will not miss their passing, and I have been using digital since 2003.

These comments are of course in my own opinion and there will be many that do not agree but there are other people like me who did not like the endless drivel of fotopic sites, I await with interest constructive replies

 

If your pointing that at me,i do agree with what you are saying,some people do put an awful lot of crap on i'm only just getting to the stage where its becoming better,i know for a fact im still learning but feel i have come a long way since Sept 06 when i had barely ever taken a photo in my life,if you look,as i do back at those shots they are absolutley dreadful! I hope you would agree they are getting better,yes i know there are some things i need to improve on,i am now getting to the stage where "Auto" mode is completley unused (I used to use it all the time before now) meaning that hopefully i am improving,here is an example of a shot i took in 06 and this,one of mine from today....

This is December 06 (after 3 months or so of taking shots) Absolute crap! If i took this now it would definetly NOT GET POSTED,i have learnt the problems,when i took it i didn't think there was anything wrong unbelievably!!Problems i can spot:Way way too much washout in the sky,too low-a shutter speed was used (No iso either,could of done with about 1 or 200,although i knew nothing about these things then,i didn't know the difference between 1 and 800! The shot was taken about 2 seconds too early,i should have at least edited the front using the crop tool,hell i didn't even know how to use it! No doubt you people can see more......




Now,this is a shot i took today,Shutter 1000 iso 64 and i don't think i did too badly to be perfectly honest,i didn't hesitate when to press the shutter (I would have done 18 months ago and i knew where to aim it,hope you agree? The main problem is the shadow going across the front of the 66......

 

Mark, you have taken it to persoanlly, yours is by no way the worst at all, it is a general comment on my own feelings, your shot in 06 is not that bad, what I refer to is bits of locos and nothing else of the engine/unit and people asking you to look at this drivel, etc appearing in shots. It looks like fotopic may not be dead after all in view of recent posts. It may be my "technophobia" but on nat press there was a section where people could post there pics for constructive criticism and I enjoyed trying to develop peoples picture taking skills by passing on any knowledge that I may have along with others, but this was a fotopic site if I remember.

 

Just keep posting Alberta at least you are your own critic, just remember we learn by our mistakes and its too easy being sat at a computer and criticising photo's. By the way I thought your pics of Tornado in NRM were brill, made me feel sort of jealous.Keep on shooting pal.

 

Cheers for the positive comments Michael,i was lucky with those shots of 60163 to get it when noone was about really! Hughesfowler,i wasn't really taking it personally,i used to get people jumping at me straight away you see so i thought it would be best to defend myself,i know what you mean and i couldn't agree more! I got slated like hell for that first shot as i did a lot of others which is why i looked at it like i did.......

Cheers,
Mark

 

I think you mean The photochallenge - rather died the death as people stopped posting.

I learnt a lot from it I have to say, even though I didn't post that often..

 

Were you referring to Neil Dimmer, Stepney?

I believe that some of the Yahoo groups have him on moderation so that he only post once per month because of the amount he was posting which was repetitive and of little interest to group members.

Sounds like the same problem exists with him here on Nat Pres #-o

 

Rather a shame if the Photochallenge has indeed lot as i learned quite a bit from it and one or two NP members, otherwise i'd still be taking complete rubbish on auto now.

 

Although there were (are?) a few modern digital pictures on my Fotopic site, most of my collections were, or are, archive pictures scanned from ancient faded colour slides. I hope that at least some of these are (or were) of more than passing interest! There are also other collections of old pictures as well as mine; Geoff Plumb's 'Plumb Loco' and Mike Morant's 'Old Pix Brought to the Fore' immediately spring to mind.

It will be a crying shame if these priceless archives are lost. (Not to mention mine!)

 

I imagine that most people will still have the original images, but as suggested, how many people will bother to upload them all again if need be.

 

I wouldn't it takes between 30 mins and an hour for me to upload 30 or 40 so imagine how long it would take for nearly 7 thousand!!Some people have much bigger collections,i don't know how they would manage it? I only have my shots post February 08 (Others backed up on CD after hardware failure) so that would be 2 or 3 thousand,40GB,because i don't compress or batch them,that's why i have 1Terabyte of External HD! Not bad for £78 when others were £65 for 500GB......

Cheers,
Mark

 

http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/4.../companysearch?disp=1&frfsh=1231076263#result

 

its not just the uploading either, its the sorting, grouping, comments, descriptions, etc etc....

 

As I said, these are not the companies that own fotopic.net

 

Sorry, pasted the wrong link, I think this is the correct one.

http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/6.../companysearch?disp=1&frfsh=1231077288#result

 

If fotopic has gone down the chuff, then it'll be a shame - I bought a space upgrade recently so I'm sure I'll see none of that back if this is the case.

Should Fotopic/the owners have gone bust then there are a number of alternatives - I run another picture website using Google Sites for the template and Photobucket to host the images and the combination works well. Flickr is good, but doesn't allow for the format that you can make with Google sites/fotopic.

 

I have put three years work into my Fotopic site; others have put in a lot more. If I, and others, have to start all over again, do I / we just carry with new pictures and forget what went before, or do I /we spent the next three years, or whatever, recreating our lost Fotopic galleries and collections on another site. And how do I / we know that won't suddenly disappear?

Perhaps I'll just go back to trainspotting - or take up tiddley-winks!

 

see previous comment - fotopic was sld by its owners last summer.

A new company runs it/ran it * delete as now applicable

 

Evening
Although I'd never uploaded anything to Fotopic
It was a really good place to find photograph's of Nameplates there were 1000's of good face on pics
If there was a pic i needed i only ever had to look on there ](*,)
Tried searching this evening for some photos of the Headboards on yesterdays class 40 tour :-k
Not found any yet [-(

JIM