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Crossposting your best images to the Lens Sample Archive

West Coast Birder

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Folks, as you all know, we have a section on the site called the Lens Sample Archive. There is a thread there for every lens commonly in use and the ability to add more lenses as needed. The two stickies at the top are intended to make searching for your specific lens easier. The archive is a great idea from POTN, meant to showcase the best photos taken with that lens. It is a wonderful resource to peruse if you are looking to see what the lens can do in the hands a wide range of people using it.

There are some amazing photos on our site in the various image sharing forums and threads. Please do consider cross-posting your best photos to the appropriate Lens Sample Archive thread. The archive is a showcase for the best photos with the lens in question, so please be picky but the idea is to have a resource that is useful for everyone. Crossposting to the image sample thread with photos that you are shared in one of the photo sharing forums is not only acceptable but encouraged. One request - ideally, the photo will have EXIF information attached but if it doesn't, please at least indicate which camera was used to take the photo.

Thanks!
 
I think it's a great idea, for camera bodies as well in fact. I may have misunderstood but I originally thought the site wanted to avoid cross-posting. I'll certainly start contributing.
 
I think it's a great idea, for camera bodies as well in fact. I may have misunderstood but I originally thought the site wanted to avoid cross-posting. I'll certainly start contributing.
Well, we want to keep cross-posting to a minimum, but cross-posting the best photos from the landscape forum or the portrait forum or the birds forum, for example, to the lens sample archive is a good thing, I think. What we want to avoid, I think, is to have the same photo appear in multiple threads in the presentation section itself.
 
Well, we want to keep cross-posting to a minimum, but cross-posting the best photos from the landscape forum or the portrait forum or the birds forum, for example, to the lens sample archive is a good thing, I think. What we want to avoid, I think, is to have the same photo appear in multiple threads in the presentation section itself.
Thanks for the clarification, this is where I always thought it should lead.
 
For photos that have been uploaded as attachments, is there a good way to add them to the lens archive without loading a new attachment. I seem to recall something about linking to the galleries, but the images didn't display at full size.
 
For photos that have been uploaded as attachments, is there a good way to add them to the lens archive without loading a new attachment. I seem to recall something about linking to the galleries, but the images didn't display at full size.
Ken, if you find your photo in the media gallery, you should be able to access a list of links like the image below. Use the circled Gallery link to place in your new post and you’ll be able to link to the same image you uploaded earlier without having to re-upload.

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Ken, if you find your photo in the media gallery, you should be able to access a list of links like the image below. Use the circled Gallery link to place in your new post and you’ll be able to link to the same image you uploaded earlier without having to re-upload.
How do I access the above Panel with all those options, as I cannot find it via my Gallery. I only have a "chainlink" option to copy the image link as a URL which then pastes into a new post as a URL and not an image?

Thanks

Dennis
 
How do I access the above Panel with all those options, as I cannot find it via my Gallery. I only have a "chainlink" option to copy the image link as a URL which then pastes into a new post as a URL and not an image?

Thanks

Dennis
In the black panel at the bottom of the gallery image, click on the filename.

Also, I couldn't get the gallery code to work, but the second line, "Copy image BB Code", does. That's actually what Sam said to use in a "how to post images" thread in the best practices forum.
 
Thanks, Ken! Sorry, I was on the road and going by memory.

How to post images from your gallery is shown, as Ken indicates, in the second post in this thread:


So, for your first thread, upload the image to the post. This will also place your image in the gallery. If you want to cross-post the image to another thread, simply follow the direction in the above link using the image in your gallery.
 
Thanks, Ken! Sorry, I was on the road and going by memory.

How to post images from your gallery is shown, as Ken indicates, in the second post in this thread:


So, for your first thread, upload the image to the post. This will also place your image in the gallery. If you want to cross-post the image to another thread, simply follow the direction in the above link using the image in your gallery.
In my experience going by memory gets riskier every year ;).
 
Thanks, Ken! Sorry, I was on the road and going by memory.

How to post images from your gallery is shown, as Ken indicates, in the second post in this thread:


So, for your first thread, upload the image to the post. This will also place your image in the gallery. If you want to cross-post the image to another thread, simply follow the direction in the above link using the image in your gallery.

In the black panel at the bottom of the gallery image, click on the filename.

Also, I couldn't get the gallery code to work, but the second line, "Copy image BB Code", does. That's actually what Sam said to use in a "how to post images" thread in the best practices forum.
Thanks guys, I appreciate your help. I knew there must be a “How To” within the Forum but I just could not find it, thanks for the directions.

I just followed the guidelines and lo and behold, it worked. All is good.

@Sam – no worries, I suspect that you, the Moderators, Forum Managers and Operators and are not just idly sitting there, waiting to respond immediately to the insatiable demands of the user community. Thanks!

Dennis.
 
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