it seems that there are less people posting in the galleries, or it could be my imagination

Actually I just ran the stats,  gallery postings and comments are up again this month:)

good, it was my imagination only

LOL:)  You had me thinking, hmmm I better go check even though we just did early in the week and things were going well for the galleries so I thought maybe we read it wrong but nope it's looking good for the month of April.

I get the impression that there are more images being posted to the galleries, but fewer people doing the posting.  There does seem to be a significant reduction in variety in the galleries these days -- but it's just my impression.  I could easily be wrong.

My own personal reasons for not posting very often any more are the following ;

1/ too many cliques

2/ When a person posts a picture it gets buried so fast a lot of people don't get a chance to view it

3/ My particular program of choice Bryce( I also use Poser, Vue, Max, Terragen, Blender etc. but just seem to like Bryce) is pretty much stagnant at this time and a lot of people using other programs seem to, in my observations of comments made in forums around the internet, feel that anyone using Bryce is not really that good, Personally I know people who use Bryce but like myself rarely post thier work anymore who can blow a lot of the other programs out of the water with thier stuff.

And I definitely have to agree with moriador regarding his post and also have to admit that I myself and people like me who have cut way back on thier posting are part of the reason. In the case of the Bryce gallery the number of people posting thier work has dropped signifigantly which would explain the similarity and lack of diversion in the types of pictures being posted ( this seems to be happening in some of the other galleries also).

Again these are just my own personal feelings and thoughts on this and in no way do I wish to offend anyone as in the past I seemed to attract a lot of criticism when I did voice my opinion and comment on things like this. 

I can't testify to numbers, but QUALITY...is another story..In my opinion the quality of work has gone down.

I agree for sure. The only reason I never mentioned it is because some time ago I recieved a lot of "comments" to put it politely and some very blunt remarks to the effect that "art is in the eye of the beholder" although the premise that a piece of crap is art still somehow eludes me no matter how I look at it:)

However a lot of the people here seem to either be learning or have reached thier level of incompetency and that is to be expected on any site that you are allowed to post your work on without a set criteria or reviewing type of system. That said there are a fair amount of people who are exceptionally good at what they do here but it comes back to thier work being buried with the amount of uploads there are daily.

I guess you just have to take the good with the bad :) I often think there should be a kind of "Masters Gallery" that people could submit thier work to after some type of approval by thier peers. Not saying that the work has to be perfect but should have artistic merit and kind of touch people or stir them in some way that art is supposed to do no matter what medium is used. I have seen photography and 2 and 3D stuff here that makes me strive to do better and perhaps a lot of people would feel the same way and try to improve thier work because of it.

Just a thought for what its worth:)

Don´t post much in the forums, but this got my attention (as well as other things, but thats another topic :-) ).

I´m not posting very often these days in the galleries because of the cliques. Sure, I do comment on images of others as well, but only if I really like them - it´s kind of odd to upload an image, comment lotsa images so in return I get comments as well.

But ... can´t change that, I think ...

Cheers,

maddy

maddy, I have to agree with you about the cliques but it has been that way ever since this site was started from what was left of the old poser forum. That was why I was hacked on some time ago when I questioned a picture that received a huge amount of comments about how great a picture it was. Personally I believe that spheres and the like floating over water or anywhere else is just a bit of joke when that type of pictures get outrageously ridiculous comments like wow! wonderful and awesome lighting etc.

But then as I have been told "art is in the eye of the beholder" and so I sometimes have to wonder who is the one with the skewed sight, myself or the seemingly knowledgable critics (who seem to outnumber any of us who question thier judgement on what is and what isn't art) although if one looks up the definition of an art critic they may want to lay back a bit on thier criticism of anyone who questions thier judgement:)

As for the cliques I wonder if a lot of them just don't have anything or anyone else in thier life and have a need to belong to something to give meaning to thier pscyche which is one reason I kind of feel sorry for them :)

And cheers to you!

beelzebulb, thanks for your answer. It´s good to know that I´m not alone with this issue. You know, I have been a member to Rendo since 2000 something and I do remember that the cliques stuff wasn´t that much a case back then. But now - thats a whole different story.

Uploading an image is no fun anymore. I mean, it´s not like that I´m easy doing with my images. It´s not like, I´m just doing a plane stone and call it "Art" (on the other hand, maybe I should do that and see what I´ll come up with ;).

On the other hand, maybe my images are just plain bad, stupid and worthless. Who knows ... I think in the future I will turn off the comment and rating function and that´s about it.

Hope, there will be better times though ... !

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Cheers,**

**maddy
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**On the other hand, maybe my images are just plain bad, stupid and worthless          **

I woulbn't say the above:) I just looked at some of your stuff and it beats the h==l out of a lot of the "awesome"  ones I see getting so many ratings and favorites that makes me want to get an eye transplant at times:) .

**I know that a lot of my stuff is better but since I don't belond to a "clique" I don't let it get to me. I appreciate the comments etc. I get from the people I admire much more than the "clique" ones. So should you.                                                                                                                                  **

Hehe, you´re probably right about that and I will handle it that way in the future or, at least, I´ll try ... :)

I got the feeling you like to stress your computer with your images as well as I do, since they also look more complicated or much better than the ones nobody actually should talk about (at all) ;)