I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group.
Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings for indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited experience, I concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I bought my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive to me as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop", the manual was written for someone who already had good technical knowledge of how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia has some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer. After a few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more knowledgeable people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers group will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider ways to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high.
What's making you happy this week?
Pine
+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
K.
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group.
Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings for indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited experience, I concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I bought my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive to me as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop", the manual was written for someone who already had good technical knowledge of how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia has some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer. After a few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more knowledgeable people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers group will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider ways to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high.
What's making you happy this week?
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What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific imagery that was openly licensed!
The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain. I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php (anyone interested in molluscs?)
I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of content: https://opentextbc.ca/
[1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou ktsouroupidou@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
K.
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group.
Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings for indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited experience, I concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I bought my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive to me as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop", the manual was written for someone who already had good technical knowledge of how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia has some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer. After a few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more knowledgeable people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers group will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider ways to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high.
What's making you happy this week?
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Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae is there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
James
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz marielle.volz@gmail.com wrote:
What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific imagery that was openly licensed!
The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain. I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php (anyone interested in molluscs?)
I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of content: https://opentextbc.ca/
[1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou ktsouroupidou@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
K.
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group.
Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings for indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited experience, I concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I
bought
my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive
to me
as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop", the manual was written for someone who already had good technical knowledge
of
how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia
has
some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.
After a
few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more knowledgeable people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers
group
will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider
ways
to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high.
What's making you happy this week?
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Greetings,
What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in two academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community (Wikimedia User Group Nigeria) who made this happened.
Regards,
Isaac
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae is there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
James
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz marielle.volz@gmail.com wrote:
What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific imagery that was openly licensed!
The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain. I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php (anyone interested in molluscs?)
I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of content: https://opentextbc.ca/
[1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou ktsouroupidou@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
K.
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User
Group
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group.
Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings
for
indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited
experience, I
concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I
bought
my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive
to me
as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop",
the
manual was written for someone who already had good technical
knowledge
of
how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia
has
some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.
After a
few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more
knowledgeable
people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers
group
will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider
ways
to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high.
What's making you happy this week?
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What made me happy this week is the release of our latest converter (check it out: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/14kh) that converts the Odia-language text into International Phonetic Alphabet and Roman. We have been struggling for some time now to add pronunciations for words and could not find anything that could do that job. So another fellow Wikimedian Prateek Pattanaik I scraped the code from an existing converter and created this. Now we are going to integrate this into our pronunciation project Kathabhidhana (https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Kathabhidhana) where we create pronunciations of words. The next batch of audio recordings will come on Commons with IPA and Romanization. Yay for more metadata! :)
Subhashish
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in two academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community (Wikimedia User Group Nigeria) who made this happened.
Regards,
Isaac
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae is there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
James
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz marielle.volz@gmail.com wrote:
What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific imagery that was openly licensed!
The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain. I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php (anyone interested in molluscs?)
I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of content: https://opentextbc.ca/
[1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou ktsouroupidou@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
K.
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User
Group
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group.
Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings
for
indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited
experience, I
concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I
bought
my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not
intuitive
to me
as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop",
the
manual was written for someone who already had good technical
knowledge
of
how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted.
Wikipedia
has
some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would
have
helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.
After a
few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more
knowledgeable
people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons
Photographers
group
will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and
consider
ways
to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high.
What's making you happy this week?
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Hi,
What made me happy this week was to see the tests of 3D objects being uploaded into Commons : https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/3d
Regards.
That's fantastic, Subhashish! :)
A.
On May 5, 2017 3:21 AM, "Subhashish Panigrahi" psubhashish@gmail.com wrote:
What made me happy this week is the release of our latest converter (check it out: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/14kh) that converts the Odia-language text into International Phonetic Alphabet and Roman. We have been struggling for some time now to add pronunciations for words and could not find anything that could do that job. So another fellow Wikimedian Prateek Pattanaik I scraped the code from an existing converter and created this. Now we are going to integrate this into our pronunciation project Kathabhidhana (https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Kathabhidhana) where we create pronunciations of words. The next batch of audio recordings will come on Commons with IPA and Romanization. Yay for more metadata! :)
Subhashish
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in
two
academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community
(Wikimedia
User Group Nigeria) who made this happened.
Regards,
Isaac
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae
is
there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
James
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz <marielle.volz@gmail.com
wrote:
What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good
scientific
imagery that was openly licensed!
The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain. I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php (anyone interested in molluscs?)
I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under
CC
by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of content: https://opentextbc.ca/
[1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou ktsouroupidou@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
K.
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User
Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group
.
Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic
settings
for
indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited
experience, I
concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I
bought
my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not
intuitive
to me
as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and
"f-stop",
the
manual was written for someone who already had good technical
knowledge
of
how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted.
Wikipedia
has
some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would
have
helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.
After a
few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more
knowledgeable
people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist
in a
variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons
Photographers
group
will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and
consider
ways
to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high.
What's making you happy this week?
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Thanks Asaf. :)
Subha
On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Asaf Bartov asaf.bartov@gmail.com wrote:
That's fantastic, Subhashish! :)
A.On May 5, 2017 3:21 AM, "Subhashish Panigrahi" psubhashish@gmail.com wrote:
What made me happy this week is the release of our latest converter
(check
it out: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/14kh) that converts the Odia-language text into International Phonetic Alphabet and Roman. We have been struggling for some time now to add pronunciations for words and could
not
find anything that could do that job. So another fellow Wikimedian
Prateek
Pattanaik I scraped the code from an existing converter and created this. Now we are going to integrate this into our pronunciation project Kathabhidhana (https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Kathabhidhana) where we create pronunciations of words. The next batch of audio recordings will come on Commons with IPA and Romanization. Yay for more metadata! :)
Subhashish
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Isaac Olatunde <
reachout2isaac@gmail.com>
wrote:
Greetings,
What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in
two
academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community
(Wikimedia
User Group Nigeria) who made this happened.
Regards,
Isaac
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com
wrote:
Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook,
Fae
is
there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
James
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz <
marielle.volz@gmail.com
wrote:
What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good
scientific
imagery that was openly licensed!
The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of agricultural interest and released the images into the public
domain.
I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the
Bee
Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text
to
the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a
hack
job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate
for
batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.
php
(anyone interested in molluscs?)
I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under
CC
by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high
quality
medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a
bunch
of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of content: https://opentextbc.ca/
[1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou ktsouroupidou@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
K.
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com
wrote:
> I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers
User
Group
User_Group
.
> > Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this): > > The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic
settings
for
> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited
experience, I
> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time
later I
bought
> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not
intuitive
to me
> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and
"f-stop",
the
> manual was written for someone who already had good technical
knowledge
of
> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted.
Wikipedia
has
> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would
have
> helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced
photographer.
After a
> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more
knowledgeable
> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist
in a
> variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons
Photographers
group
> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and
consider
ways
> to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers
in
> situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable > open-source contributions are very high. > > What's making you happy this week? > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
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I browsed through the bee mites example. Though a bot or tool can be good for mass uploading thousands of images from a 'flat' archive source, i.e. each image has a catalogue record to take suitable data from, the species web pages and diagrams gain a lot of their value by illustrating the page they are part of. So doing the uploads "by hand" to Commons actually makes a lot of sense, rather than a "brute force" mass upload. Where possible, it may be better to upload the PDF version of the same information rather than separate images, though some of the images are nice and illustrative in their own right.
For small numbers of files, say under a couple of hundred, the standard upload wizard can be a useful way of downloading images locally, then uploading ten or twenty at a time, making sure the right text description is against each. For large upload numbers the upload wizard can still be handy, but the other tools at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_tools are designed to be quite easy to use for local uploads, or loading from some white-listed sites like Flickr.
Anyone with a large archive to upload, like 10,000+ files, should consider creating a request at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading. Even if you end up doing the upload yourself, it is handy to have a page discussing the upload method, naming conventions, categorization and the way that metadata will be added. There are only a handful of regular experienced volunteer mass uploaders around, so for very large upload projects the requester should plan on it taking more than a couple of weeks to happen.
Cheers, Fae
On 3 May 2017 at 16:28, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae is there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
James
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz marielle.volz@gmail.com wrote:
What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific imagery that was openly licensed!
The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain. I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php (anyone interested in molluscs?)
I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of content: https://opentextbc.ca/
[1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou ktsouroupidou@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
K.
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group.
Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings for indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited experience, I concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I bought my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive to me as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop", the manual was written for someone who already had good technical knowledge of how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia has some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer. After a few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more knowledgeable people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers group will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider ways to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high.
What's making you happy this week?
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