Flatbed scanner photography forums February 16, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Art, Flickr , trackback
Posted by Vincent de Groot to the Scanned Objects Flickr goup forum yesterday, a link to his article on flatbed scanner photography.
The article is a good one, as an introduction to the concept of scanner photography, but it does become specific to one particular piece of scanner software, called VueScan. Also it makes no mention at all of the same Flickr group where over 1,600 examples of scanned objects can be browsed by tag, contributed by 417 members, founded on 1/1/2005. Instead there are 4 links to his own PHPbb forum, so I might have to sign up there and post a reciprocal advert, or not bother. I see this kind of promoting of other forums happening quite a bit on other groups as well so let me throw out the question:
Are established flickr groups, or any other forum with a substantial membership, considered fair game for trying to recruit members from? Would the use of the word “poaching” be too emotive a description for such activity?
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Hi Andy,
why are you writing here, and not just complain in my original flickr post? I found the link to the flickr group photos a great idea and have added that to the article.
BTW it was not my intention to make my forum alive, that forum on my website is going to be deleted as soon as I have some time.
Vinc
Hi Vinc,
I guess we have very different ways of operating and it’s going to be difficult to bridge, I can tell. For example, you haven’t uploaded a single one of your own scanned object photographs to flickr or to the group where you advertised your article.
One reason I decided to write here was in the hope that my known blog audience might help me question my own reaction. I wasn’t confident that a complaint was warranted, without thinking some more first. The flickr group discussions are less responsive, usually, but it’s always a guessing game as to where a response is more likely.
Now you’ve taken the trouble to link to the Flickr tag cloud only, and left four links asking people to post opinions to a forum which you intend to delete, so like I say, it’s not going to be easy to understand each other’s modus operandi here.
To answer my own question, the word ‘poaching’ is probably too dignified to be apply in the specific case, but the general question about fair game still stands.
Hi Andy,
took me some time to delete my forum but it finally disappeared last week.
Why did I post?
to make people aware of an article which might be valuable
Why did I wrote the article:
about a year a go the use of scanner was fun for me, currently I have changed my style.
Why did I not upload any scanned photographs?
well, if you look at my work on flickr and compare with that on my website you see that in flickr there is a much more consistent style.
I do hope that those answers do give you feedback on your “fair game” question.
Vinc
The Flickr group on scanner photography now has 227 photographs of scanned objects and 638 members