I pestered DPR for years to start an Events forum, and now I finally have one. Woohoo! All you corporate and private event shooters, let's dish some tips here. I've been shooting corporate events for 20 years, and it's been a long trip from my D60 and Metz potato mashers through the whole EOS-1 line with Lumedynes to Micro Four Thirds and now a trio of a7RIIIs with a bag of Samyang primes and Godox flashes.
Where are my peeps?
Glad to see this new forum here. For most people, when we think of events photography, we think of weddings, corporate conferences, meetings. What else do professional event photographers shoot? Birthday parties? Dances? Graduations?
I didn't pester DPRetired. I just politely requested one and the answer was "Nope. Just use other forums."
So I was glad to see that DPRevived had created an Events forum (as well as an Architecture, Urban, Man Made one) but there is no traffic. I even posted and advertisement of my thread in the Open Talk forum to no avail.
Nick
I didn't actually pester DPR. That was just a bit of self-deprecating humor. I did, though, submit a polite request once a year three years in a row. DPR declined, and as a result the Pro Digital Talk forum continued to be overrun by wannabe wedding shooters looking for free lessons with questions like "What lenses should I use for my first wedding?" I was happy to answer those kinds of questions in other forums, but was pretty irritated to encounter them in the Pro forum, a forum that was, ostensibly, for discussion among pros.
There's not much traffic in even the most popular forums here yet, and likely won't be until DPR actually shuts down. When it does, though, things will probably pick up around here.
Off the top of my head:
Concerts
Trade and professional association meetings
Nonprofits' fundraisers
Corporate sales meetings
Corporate "incentive" trips and activities for employees
Charity events
Product launch events
Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
There is practically no traffic on this forum as well as on many others. I was hoping the user interface would improve with time but it remains as basic as in the first day. It's not very attractive.
Nick
Are these forums suggestions or topics that should be hosted on this one.
Nick
This was intended as a reply to aperture12's post, but I hit the wrong button.
"Glad to see this new forum here. For most people, when we think of events photography, we think of weddings, corporate conferences, meetings. What else do professional event photographers shoot? Birthday parties? Dances? Graduations?"
OK. This makes sense. ;-)
Nick