I guess that's the downside of having too many people posting in this subforum lol. It was so quiet and also boring in this forum like a year ago.
Well I do check some of the product reviews and questions about different camera equipment on thephotoforum and I believe those sub-forum are most useful when it comes to finding info about equipment:

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/photography-equipment-products-news-reviews/

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/digital-discussion-q/

i was here a lil about june last year posted about 15 pics i think its on page 15 or so now coz i went back to find it for kicks but the good thing with more people is you get a wider variation of cnc and see different styles and that should help you develop more, i believe i've learnt a lot in the last 2 weeks since i started reading here again and i already knew a decent amount about my camera and a lil bit bout things like rule of 3rds and things

This post was edited by SS_avenger on Feb 21 2009 01:24am

HDR guide by black rose - http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=28560614&f=265

You'll be better off finding guides from actual professionals, not from people that've studied photography for less than 3 years. If you really want to get answers on this forum, the best person to ask is Astragony, there was another person here that posted ages ago but I can't recall his username, he did have a photography guild though.

I have to agree with you on that one. There are several very informative and helpful tutorials online about how to create HDRI. Here is one of them:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/hdr.shtml

theres knowledge to be learnt from professionals but imo some of the guides are still good and useful to get people started, and moving into move advanced techniques

Not really, because they're coming from people that don't fully understand the techniques.

who says you have to learn from professionals? and it doesn't really matter your going off topic and i'd love to hear your reasoning for it but please don't post it here there has been enough off topic posts in this topic so lets leave it at this,
if you don't think that we should be learning from people who don't fully understand the techniques why don't you give us a hand and post some guides by some people who know the techniques fully ?

My two cents:
If a guide is not from a professional, both the guider and the the guided should be fully aware that the technique is provided as such and may not necessarily be one professionals would use. Thus, any guides we post here should probably be offered only as shared findings and subject to any criticism. As long as this criticism is thought out and valid, then the author should undoubtedly accept it (which is obviously not happening in certain cases here) be it negative or positive. I agree that user-provided tutorials may be useful but they should be viewed as nothing more than informal findings, and not some golden treasure chest everyone needs to appreciate and value the same way the author may.

Edit:
Also, they should not be glorified. Links to them should be used sparingly and not at the author's discretion (or sometimes lack of). Ahem..

This post was edited by Sonorous on Feb 23 2009 03:44pm

Couldn't agree more. Well said!

This post was edited by chantal7 on Feb 23 2009 04:27pm