How active are we here?

[Robert Brummitt]

Hello all,
I have been cruising APUG for I don't know how long. I love it there and like many of the folks there as well. My problem is that I'm finding it harder and harder to show my work in the gallery. If I'm to be honest.
I work primarily in color process. I use a film camera and use to use a lab for my printing. But that lab has closed its doors to wet RA4 paper. They converted to Inkjet. Which is a sound business call and environmental one as well.
I'm also playing with the idea of purchasing Adobe Lightroom since I work with it in my job. It's a sweet program and I can see how I can use it for my personal work. I had years in a commercial lab business.
My question is how active are we here in Hybrid Photo? Will this thread bounce around for months before I get an answer? How many members are here? Do we talk and share.
Please help a lost soul out!

[Katharine Thayer]

Was that Photocraft, or a different lab that closed?

No, your thread won't sit for months before it gets an answer; we're not as active as APUG, but things do tend to get answered in fairly short order, especially if your question is something digital-related. I don't know how many members there are. Welcome,

[jd callow]

I have been using LR. I just shot a gazzillion cabinet knobs and pulls and found LR to be a great asset. I am also about to do a ton of my own film stuff output to a lambda as I currently don't have a darkroom. SO I am knee deep in hybrid right now.

Meanwhile Hybrid seems to be less of a social gathering and more of a resource than APUG. APUG has far more of everything, but the social/lounge non-photo stuff gets a far higher percentage of the traffic.

[Robert Brummitt]

Was that Photocraft, or a different lab that closed?

No, your thread won't sit for months before it gets an answer; we're not as active as APUG, but things do tend to get answered in fairly short order, especially if your question is something digital-related. I don't know how many members there are. Welcome,

I worked for 4 years at Wy'east color. They closed then I went to Photocraft and they closed, then I went to Citizens. They moved and they went inkjet printing. Thank the gods, they still do dip and dunk processing!
Oh and K&K closed its doors this last Summer too.

So, I'm looking to share work and get ideas on line. I still plan to show some of my images on APUG. When I can.

Thank you for the welcome.
:) :) :)

[jimcollum]

feel free to add work to the gallery section here.. always wanting to see new work!!

jim

[Katharine Thayer]

Yes, thank the gods for Citizens; they do my E6 since Photocraft quit. I think they may be the only ones left.

[stradibarrius]

I love APUG as well but I'm not sure if I understand the rules there. If you take a photo with film have the film process at some point you have to convert to digital to be able to post on the APUG site. With so many good labs closing it is becoming more difficult to find a really good lab as everyone knows so at some point I have been forced to go "Hybrid" LOL!! But it seems that many of the APUG folks are really hybrid as well????

[Don Bryant]

But it seems that many of the APUG folks are really hybrid as well????

Give the APUG archives a search and you will find plenty of discussion about this topic.

On HybridPhoto, "we don't ask and we don't tell", as the saying goes. What APUG members do is their business.

Don Bryant

[Mike1234]

As is hinted at here, I suspect many APUG members are doing hybrid work and not admitting it.

[Don Bryant]

As is hinted at here, I suspect many APUG members are doing hybrid work and not admitting it.

I don't think it is in the best interest of HybridPhoto to discuss or speculate what APUG users do or not do. This discussion, IMO, is best done on the appropriate APUG forum, what ever that maybe.

Don

[Mike1234]

Logged on today after months of rare browsing. Started a couple of threads.

[Rudeofus]

As is hinted at here, I suspect many APUG members are doing hybrid work and not admitting it.
Many on APUG quite openly admit it and nobody serious would be upset about this on APUG. Don't forget that hybridphoto started as sub forum of APUG and only became a forum of its own when some die hards on APUG couldn't stand the mentioning of digital tools on APUG.

[ann]

i would have to agree with rudeofus on this as i am a member on APUG but abid by the decision to maintain it's goal of being only analog.

In some ways it is sad, as there are quite a few folks over there that i know and trust their judgement about digital use; however, there are 100's of digital sites with a lot of fools, and it is hard to shift though the pile.

I was very much in favor of a hybrid site and indicated that to Sean.

This site may not be as active as some, but the people here are serious about producing serious work.

[David A. Goldfarb]

This site may not be as active as some, but the people here are serious about producing serious work.

I think this is the key. There's not a lot of idle chitchat on hybridphoto.com, so the quality and density of information is very high. Post a serious question--beginning, intermediate, or advanced--and you get some serious answers from experienced hybrid workers (Ansel Adams always referred to people who print in the darkroom as "workers").

That level of quality is in part a function of the size of the forum, so as the site develops and grows it will be very difficult to maintain the current atmosphere, and there will surely be people who will lament the decline of the serious, small hybridphoto.com populated by members who are equally at home with digital and traditional photographic methods, so if you're here now, enjoy it while you can.

[bob carnie]

I believe that within a couple of years this site if maintained by Sean, John with good moderators like we have, we will see immense growth as hybid is the new frontier with amazing possibilities.

Like Ann I have visited a lot of other digital sites , where I feel the BS factor is immense. I would prefer to listen, learn and help workers who actually can say they know how to make a print and indeed do make prints.

This site was slow to start but I think the traffic is a bit better , the threads are definately getting more interesting to me.
Personally all my work is moving to hybrid , with exception of enlarger fibre prints which I will do for a few select clients.

As long as Sean and John are here running it , I will be involved as best I can.

[Don Bryant]

Don't forget that hybridphoto started as sub forum of APUG and only became a forum of its own when some die hards on APUG couldn't stand the mentioning of digital tools on APUG.

Die hards such as Sean Ross ... :)

But why gossip here about what folks on APUG do? I notice ocassionally that new Hybrid members who have drifted over from APUG seem to feel compelled to state that they are dedicated film users even if they are only making inkjet prints from film scans; almost as though they are reformed smokers. :)

And of course there is Art Liam's social hybrid sub forum you can join on APUG, though I'm not sure what the point is.

Don

[Mike1234]

I'm very happy to agree that the site does seem to be more active than it was. I'll be coming here much more often if this keeps up.

I disagree that being a very small forum will be missed though because the more members here the more information, ideas and tactics.

If noise and abuse increase then you'll have a bigger pool of good people to invite into the moderation team. It's the ratio of Mods/Admins to members that counts. Just my opinion, of course.

Hopefully this site will grow and expand exponentially over the next few months and enough Mods/Admins will be added to control all us freaks. :D

[stradibarrius]

The analogue process is my first choice but there are times when it doesn't fit for me. I recently returned from a trip to SE Asia and took my digital gear because I couldn't carry my RB. I have learned to trust and respect so many of the APUG group I wish I could share some of my digital stuff so I could get a trusted opinion rather than the BS from many of the other sites. I hope to see this site grow in participation from folks we can trust.

[pellicle]

Hi

My question is how active are we here in Hybrid Photo? Will this thread bounce around for months before I get an answer? How many members are here? Do we talk and share.
Please help a lost soul out!

some of us take pictures too

[stradibarrius]

Well people are responding to your question. You may not be getting the answer you are looking for???? How do you answer the question...a roll call of members, a specific number of members????