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May 23, 2024
New member-to-member emails coming
We are starting a new beta for member-2-member emails.
The beta will kick of 27-MAY-2027 and will change the way we are sending emails between each other.
The main functionality coming and the motivation for doing this is listed in this post in the About Nikonians forum.
Posted by bgs at 5:22 PM
May 15, 2024
Favorite forums automatically subscribed
We have rolled out a change today that should make it easier for you to keep track of your favorite forums.
This works as follows:
You need to use the "Favorite Forums" marking feature to start with. That is the trailing star after the forum names. Marking it and it is a favorite forum. Unmarking it and that forum is no longer a favorite of yours. Favorites are grouped together at the top of the Forum Lobby.
Once you use the Favorite Forums
1. When you are using the "Favorite Forums" marking feature, you will get that forum automatically marked as being subscribed to as well. This means you'll get an email digest with the latest forum posts summarized and sent to you according to your "My Profile" and "Preferences" settings. Typically Daily or Weekly.
2. If you unmark a favorite forum, you will have the forum subscription removed from that forum as well.
3. Subscribing to a forum does not automatically set it as a favorite forum.
You can easily unsubscribe from a single forum by using the "Unsubscribe..." link at the top of the forum. You can also manage your subscriptions under "My Profile" and "Subscriptions" tab.
Enjoy!
We discuss this in the forums
Posted by bgs at 2:45 PM
May 13, 2024
Community Update May 2024
Lots of things happening in the community. Here are the main items from the last months to keep you in the loop.
The Best of Nikonians 2023
After the winners in The Best of Nikonians 2023 Annual Photo Contest were announced March 25th, 2024 by our Photo Contests Director, David Summers (dm1dave), he and Eric Bowles (ericbowles) held a webinar with the winners who talked about the details and stories behind their images. The 2023 year's contest had 109 finalist photos and our team of international judges chose 10 photos as this years winners.
The Best of Nikonians 2023 Exhibition, a virtual gallery is now open and you are most welcome in, to walk around and to discover the 56 artworks produced by the finalists and the winners. After you have visited the exhibition, please do leave a comment in the comment section below it and let us know what you liked and what you think can be improved.
"Heavenly Solitude" from the portfolio of Tim Speer (tspeer) taken in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado with a Nikon D750
Forum clean up and improvements
There are several ongoing projects to further improve our community. Some of the recent changes:
- Forum posts older than 36 months now automatically locked by a bot, preventing reawakening of ghost discussions
- Want to Sell (WTS) and Want to Buy (WTB) posts older than 6 months now automatically archived
- Search in forums now select recent posts only by default, ignoring older posts
- Your received awards (ribbons) now included at the top of your portfolio
- Forum subscriptions and topic notifications now in a new format with improved structure and HTML
- We do support RSS since long, but the RSS feeds have been improved
Fundraising campaign 2024
We are currently working on: Improving our learning content, enhancing existing features and new tools incl. photo critique & feedback possibilities.
Any amount is helpful. Contributions of $50 USD or above receive a unique, 2024 Donor Ribbon as a small thank you - Make sure you are logged in before paying. With $150 USD and above you are eligible for the new, limited black edition of our Nikonians Supporter Baseball Cap, which will be produced in two batches this year, first production in July 2024. More info
Travel story
Join Connie Cassinetto to the Falkland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula where she photograph penguins, icebergs and snow-covered landscapes. More...
Thanks for reading, and...
Go get that next capture!
The Nikonians Team
Posted by bgs at 10:44 AM
May 12, 2024
Weekly Update 12-May-2024
This weeks Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 12 May 2024
You'll find more, excellent images on the Editor's Choice page Hellebores by jimray - Show in forums Editor: Like this spring like DA image, Jim. Nice selection for a background and keeping detail in petals.  Big Sur! by DaveSoderlund - Show in forums Editor: Beautiful light and scenery, Dave. Like how the 2 sec. exposure softens the water/waves.  Moonscape Sunrise by LostHwy - Show in forums Editor: Love the detail here Brian!  Ice Studies by dm1dave - Show in forums Editor: Love this new look of Coke, Dave. Clever and well executed focus stack. A few bird friends from the Great Ocean Road Driver by hendo55 - Show in galleries Editor: Great capture, Bruce. Love the subject isolation, detail and bright red color.  Keeping feet dry by Phil Pound - Show in forums Editor: Perfect timing Phil bridge Le Havre (Fr) by johnnie5 - Show in galleries Editor: Great architectural study of this monumental bridge in France. This weeks top posts in the "Want to Sell" section I Want to Sell: Slightly Used Nikon Z-9- A Condition by nikonman75 For sale is my Nikon Z-9 backup camera. I found that I could do 95% of my shooting with 1 body, so it is time to find a good home for it. This camera stayed in my dehumidifying cabinet when not in use... This weeks top forum postings Nikon D500: Spot metering by chris_suffolk Hoping somebody can help. Cant find a definitive answer, and manual is a bit ambiguous. When using spot metering, with dynamic focus areas, does the metering point move as the focus point switches as ... Nikon Z9 / Z8: From d850 to Z9 observation by mrwilson Ive had my z9 just several weeks after using my d850 for several years. A couple things that bother me a little is the viewfinder and the trap door to the memory card. Depending on the light the viewf... Wildlife: Macropods by Ern_Reeders Eastern Grey Kangaroos. Lots of joeys in pouches. Good rains over several years plus the grazing smorgasbord that farmers have inadvertantly provided have produced large numbers of this species. will ... Landscape: Big Sur! by DaveSoderlund The late afternoon sun warmed the cliffs and made little rainbows in the breaking waves. The actual sunset was sort of a bust, but Ill take this. Z7, Nikkor Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 46mm, ISO 31, 2 sec ... Glamour & Portrait, Studio & Still Life: Vivian on a Rainy Day by juggles D850, Nikkor 24-70 f2.8@f5, 160/sec. ISO 640 critiques, etc. welcome... Architecture & Industrial Photography: ...no home office for those folks... by forstfotografie ...spotted the work on a high-voltage cable nearby, so I grabbed my Z8 and Nikkor Z 100-400 to capture those workers. I was told that in a couple of days they will install the new cable with the help ... PJ, PR & Street: Let us flying by mborgare Placa de Bolivar. Bogota Colombia. This balloon seller looked isolated from the crowd around that appeared more interested in the pigeons. Nikon Z-7ii with Nikkor Z 24-120mm f/4@24mm, f/13, 1/125s, IS... Sports: Point to Point Horse Racing by GBaylis I had my second ever day on Sunday photographing the horse racing about an hour from where I live. Point to Point race meetings are the junior version of professional National Hunt racing but are huge... Micro, Macro & Close-up: Putting my AF Micro 105mm f2.8 lens to use by DoctorBe Waiting for the garden flowers to grow. Doing some indoor shooting to cut through the boredom of gray days. Im fortunate to have a Trader Joes a few miles away - they are a great place to buy inexpens... Travel: Caribbean Cathedral by mklass The St Louis Cathedral in Fort de France, Martinique. This one was built in 1895, and is the 7th cathedral on the site. The first was built in 1657. All of the previous structures were destroyed by ea... Aviation: Orlando Air Show 2024 by smitheroosky A couple from yesterdays show. F-22 Raptor Flight with the Raptor and P-51 Event this year was the Blue Angels Edge Pass of these things is not like the others. One of the gimmicks this year was to ha... Infrared & Ultraviolet: First outing with the Nikon Z 28-75 F2.8 by pixures Catching up on some images from last fall. These images were taken from the Cleveland Art Museum grounds on October 13, 2023. Each were shot with my infrared full spectrum camera. The first two images... Motor Sports: Just 1 for fun! by JEItry We are almost defrosted in Detroit Michigan! Just 1 for fun! ... Astrophotography: New article on 2024 Solar Eclipse - Your input by bgs We want to create a separate article to show the many great 2024 Solar Eclipse images the community has created. For this we would love to get some helpful hints for it as well, the basics on how to s... Digital Artistry: Reeds on a Lake by ctnorm7 A multiple exposure of reeds on a lake. Thanks for looking. Norm... A Picture I Took: Boring Backyard Bird? by the diewrecktor Pileated Woodpecker boring wood for a meal. EDIT: Z8 Z800PF All Handheld The wood chips are flying. What a mess. Nice job, admiring its work. An explosion of woodchips. Notice the eye is closed while ... Family & Pets: The Marnigirl by marnigirl This is The Marnigirl in our back yard. Sadly, she is no longer with us. ... I have been published!: Irish Professional Wildlife Photographer 2024 by Phil Pound At the Clontarf Castle Hotel in Dublin on the 7th of April, the Irish Professional Photographers and Videographers Association held its Awards Gala. I am very pleased to say that I was awarded for my ... Behind The Image: Wintering Eagles - Behind the Image by bhiggins While I am honored to receive the EC for my Eagle image, rather than speak to that specific image I think comments on technique used for the conditions might be better served. We are often challenged ... Photo Contest Info: Current Contests Updated May 6, 2024 by dm1dave Here at Nikonians we have 5 monthly competitions and our monthly photo assignment. Each month a new theme is presented and a thread is opened for submissions. The following month 4 to 6 finalists (dep... Special Edition Contests: Winners - Black White Challange 2024 by dm1dave Please join me in congratulating the winners of the 2024 Black and White Challange. Name Hot Rod in Marion Pavan (pqtrths) Title Morning at Bear John Hernlund (Tokyo_John) Title... Landscape Contest (Monthly): May Contest - Rivers and Streams by dm1dave The theme for May is *Include the shooting info so we can learn from each other. *Include a title in the subject line. *This is a contest. Please present your best, portfolio quality, work. *When post... Digital Artistry Contest (Monthly): Vote now - Altered Perspective by dm1dave Images from our March Contest - Voting continues to the end of the month.... ... and, that's it, folks! Your Nikonians Team If you want to give us feedback or have ideas on this blog, just let us know in the About Nikonians forum. |
Posted by newsmachine at 5:40 AM
May 9, 2024
Forum subscription emails have changed
We have now changed the format of our forum subscription and topic subscription/notification emails. They used to be plain text, now they are HTML, with quite a lot of additional information and different logic behind the creation of the content, which we believe will be helpful to you.
We started a beta group 22-APR-2024 who've been very helpful identifying issues during the development.
The top items that have changed:
1) Now HTML and not plain text. You can select the format (and revert back to plain text) in your "My Profile" and
"Preferences" tab.
2) Forum subscriptions no longer contain each new post, but aggregate multiple replies into a single entry in the email and show a number how many additional replies a topic has.
3) "New post" has changed its meaning. If you are using the manual "Mark forum as read" it will now be taken into account if a post will be included in the email, or not. If you are not using that feature, new posts = since last time you received the email.
Here is a complete list of changes:
1) Send forum subscriptions as HTML instead of text. Old behavior: Sent only as plain text.
2) If member has "MARK time stamp for READ NEW messages" option in use, do only include forum posts that are newer than the last time the member marked the forum in question as have been read. Old behavior: Did not consider the marking forum as read option.
3) No posts included will be older than 90 days. Old behavior: Only date of last time email sent was considered. This new aspect should typically have no effect, rather a precaution to not create too many emails.
4) If a member has a lot of subscription messages, divide the subscriptions into multiple emails. This is same behavior as before, splitting is done at approx 8500 characters per email. When an email is split into several, indicate in each: a) If there is a continuation expected after the current email, and b) that a continued email is indeed a continuation. This part is new. The old email did not really show this in the content and the subject only contained a counter.
5) If the topic is new, do only include the topic itself, not replies. If there are new replies to a topic and the topic is not listed, include a link to the topics newest reply and use an HTML anchor to point to the reply (letting the browser scroll to that message). If there are multiple replies to a topic, only include the first reply. If topic subject is clicked, opens the complete thread.
Old behavior: Included each and all replies, making larger threads quite impossible to follow in the forum subscription email.
6) Shows a counter after topics and replies to indicate there are more replies. Uses format "(+ N)" where N is the number of additional replies. Shows a direct link to the oldest unread message, opening in a view where only that message is shown and the other messages in the topic are collapsed. Old behavior: this did not exist.
7) Does not include skeleton topics where the topic has been moved (the message states that the moderator of the forum has moved the topic). Old behavior: included these messages.
Posted by bgs at 1:55 PM
May 5, 2024
Weekly Update 05-May-2024
This weeks Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 05 May 2024
You'll find more, excellent images on the Editor's Choice page Cuyahoga County Courthouse in Cleveland, OH by pixures - Show in forums Editor: Love the composition, lines and pop of color, Bill. PZ8_5231.jpg by PGinFL - Show in galleries Editor: Great jungle feel of this well framed image. AveryWithMagicDragonfly by Angi - Show in galleries Editor: A beautiful portrait! Beuatiful Light by massulo - Show in galleries Editor: Often we see Sunflowers from the other side. This sunflower looking out over the meadow makes the image interesting in its beautiful surroundings on the ANPAT.  Great Gray Taking Flight by paulkammen - Show in forums Editor: Exceptional capture Paul, and that rig is in very capable hands The Rodeo Contortionist by hoaglandjames - Show in galleries Editor: Now, that is really unique James, excellent capture of the unusual event in action Desert Aster by jh1day - Show in galleries Editor: Talk about a color explosion, well done! This weeks top posts in the "Want to Sell" section I Want to Sell: Slightly Used Nikon Z-9- A Condition by nikonman75 For sale is my Nikon Z-9 backup I found that I could do 95% of my shooting with 1 body, so it is time to find a good home for This camera stayed in my dehumidifying cabinet when not in It looks like t... This weeks top forum postings Nikon D500: Spot metering by chris_suffolk Hoping somebody can Cant find a definitive answer, and manual is a bit using spot metering, with dynamic focus areas, does the metering point move as the focus point switches as a subject moves? The m... Nikon Z9 / Z8: From d850 to Z9 observation by mrwilson Ive had my z9 just several weeks after using my d850 for several A couple things that bother me a little is the viewfinder and the trap door to the memory Depending on the light the viewfinder seems n... Wildlife: Star by AartPapaya Of all the animals I know, I think a leopard is the most I would rather try and intimidate a lion than a The lighting were not set correctly for the shot but luckily I had a brilliant I think this is ... Landscape: Big Sur! by DaveSoderlund The late afternoon sun warmed the cliffs and made little rainbows in the breaking The actual sunset was sort of a bust, but Ill take Nikkor Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 46mm, ISO 31, 2 sec ... Glamour & Portrait, Studio & Still Life: Vivian on a Rainy Day by juggles D850, Nikkor 24-70 ISO 640 critiques, welcome... Architecture & Industrial Photography: Towers of St Augustine by mklass Some of the interesting towers in St Augustine Grace United Methodist Church (Spanish Renaissance Revival style) Presbyterian Church (Venetian Revival style) of the former Ponce de Leon Hotel (Spanish... PJ, PR & Street: Let us flying by mborgare Placa de Bogota balloon seller looked isolated from the crowd around that appeared more interested in the Nikon Z-7ii with Nikkor Z 24-120mm f/4@24mm, f/13, 1/125s, ISO 800 Have a great week end... Sports: Point to Point Horse Racing by GBaylis I had my second ever day on Sunday photographing the horse racing about an hour from where I Point to Point race meetings are the junior version of professional National Hunt racing but are hugely wel... Micro, Macro & Close-up: Putting my AF Micro 105mm f2.8 lens to use by DoctorBe Waiting for the garden flowers to Doing some indoor shooting to cut through the boredom of gray Im fortunate to have a Trader Joes a few miles away - they are a great place to buy inexpensive, unusual... Travel: Caribbean Cathedral by mklass The St Louis Cathedral in Fort de France, This one was built in 1895, and is the 7th cathedral on the The first was built in All of the previous structures were destroyed by earthquake, fire or The cu... Infrared & Ultraviolet: First outing with the Nikon Z 28-75 F2.8 by pixures Catching up on some images from last These images were taken from the Cleveland Art Museum grounds on October 13, Each were shot with my infrared full spectrum The first two images in the post are act... Motor Sports: Just 1 for fun! by JEItry We are almost defrosted in Detroit Michigan! Just 1 for fun! ... Astrophotography: Solar flares during totality by savagetom I wasnt expecting to see solar flares during totality! Tom... Digital Artistry: Reeds on a Lake by ctnorm7 A multiple exposure of reeds on a for... Post for Critique: What might you do? by elec164 Well the weather predictions held true, nature handed me a whole bushel full of Im trying to make culling through the days take, I came across about it makes me like are some of your... A Picture I Took: Boring Backyard Bird? by the diewrecktor Pileated Woodpecker boring wood for a Z8 Z800PF All Handheld The wood chips are What a job, admiring its explosion of Notice the eye is closed while boring through the great job if I must say so How d... Family & Pets: The Marnigirl by marnigirl This is The Marnigirl in our back Sadly, she is no longer with... I have been published!: ive been published by johnnie5 Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle ( The Netherlands/Holland ) used 3 of my photos for their instagram and Facebook accounts I made photos of the stairs in the museumbuilding, put them in blackwhite and mir... Behind The Image: Wintering Eagles - Behind the Image by bhiggins While I am honored to receive the EC for my Eagle image, rather than speak to that specific image I think comments on technique used for the conditions might be better We are often challenged by the r... Photo Contest Info: Current Contests Updated May 4, 2024 by dm1dave Here at Nikonians we have 5 monthly competitions and our monthly photo Each month a new theme is presented and a thread is opened for The following month 4 to 6 finalists (depending on the number of e... Special Edition Contests: Winners - Black White Challange 2024 by dm1dave Please join me in congratulating the winners of the 2024 Black and White Darryl Hodson (skibreeze7) Title My Wife on Our First Tom Egel (tegel) Title A Photographic Study of the Saint Louis Gateway Mi... Landscape Contest (Monthly): May Contest - Rivers and Streams by dm1dave The theme for May is)... Digital Artistry Contest (Monthly): Vote now - Altered Perspective by dm1dave Images from our March Contest - Perspective] Voting continues to the end of the... ... and, that's it, folks! Your Nikonians Team If you want to give us feedback or have ideas on this blog, just let us know in the About Nikonians forum. |
Posted by newsmachine at 5:40 AM