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