Let's step it up!
 

I think more people should know about this site because it's the most helpful and least argumentative online community I've ever been a part of. The people here rock, and the people outside of here need to know it!

A lot of us have links in our signatures for joedios on other boards. That's great, because that and word of mouth are the best things we can do to get more people on board.

There's another effective way of "advertising" though: Steppin' it up! Most of you have been putting out FANTASTIC pictures lately, and to that I say, "Keep it up!" For me though, I've caught myself phoning it in on a few. That kind of thing won't get people here.

Let's really strive to make each picture better than the last; don't just put up any old thing. We should keep teaching ourselves new techniques, and if we can't figure it out, ask someone on here who looks like THEY know. I don't believe I've ever been turned down when it comes to asking someone for help here.

Let's make the Joe Community; the Star Wars Community; the Transformers Community; hell, even the people from Hasbro stand up and say, "Holy crap!"

That's what I'm aiming for, anyway.

Have fun, gang!!!

Thanks for the great post, Dave! I think a great way to do this is when you post a new Dio on JoeDios, link to the JoeDios thread when you announce it in other forums. that will show off our high quality and encourage them to join and participate!

Dave, you really gotta get ahold of me ala MSN or Yahoo.

I've felt this way many times. When I feel things get stale. Then I'll bitch to the boys and people step up! It's weird. I feel as if I could step my stuff up... But I've got my own style. You've seen the dios. Can you see me doing anything different? Would you think it was someone else? If I shot something like YOURS, would that not seem bizarre??? lol

Whew, I was afraid this post had fallen on deaf ears :)

Thanks for the suggestion, Hammerfel. I like it!

G, PM me with your Yahoo info.

I think we can all improve on something :o To be honest, I need to improve on set-building, my imagination (you and I have spoke a bit about that before, G), effects and my posing - as far as getting figures to really look like they're in action. I'm currently trying to get lighting down.

I'm not just talking the technical and stylistic aspects of taking pictures. I'm talking about improving on the total package, to REALLY make these little plastic figures come alive!

Have fun!!!

Heck Dave, why do you think I hang out here so much? I'm constantly learning new techniques from people who do it so much better than me, and in return I'm always happy to help as many others as my meagre skills allow. I sometimes go back and look at my early shots posted here, and frankly they're embarrassing now, but they are indicitave of how much I've learned from this site.
You are abslutely correct when you say how friendly the folks on this site are. I have so much fun and have so many great friends here that I hardly bother with other Joe sites.
Thanks for starting such a great thread, the site can only grow stronger as the quality of work improves! Hopefully I can play my part.....

This is my joe sight i visit joe customs every once in a while, but the majority of my time is here. I am always trying to get better, and I know there is room for improvment. As Craig said looking back at old pics hurts, I was just posting every pic I took and it was really hit or miss, I try to only poat pics I think are good now. I would also like to learn/get photoshop as at some point when I have the time I would enjoy doing a proper dio.

I kinda have mixed feelings about this. I Love the crew here, it's a nice tight little family. The issue I have is when a forum/site gets up to the size some of the others get to (Like JoeBattlelines or Yojoe.com) it tends to get stricter (more rules because more personalities cause fritcion) and polarized (you tend to get cliques going...like we haven't heard that around here!).

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see this site take off and get crazy popular, but I also wonder if the Popularity here would be a good thing, or a bad one? I Love the site and everyone I know that I think will contribute and better the sight, I direct them here.

The Positive side is, the more people, the more contributions and feedback. The more creativity and artistic expression. The bad side is, with artistic expression comes people with fragile ego's and people who take criticism as a personal attack.

Honestly, I'd love to see 1,000+ members like the ones we have on here currently, but the truth is for every 15-20 members we get that can give and take criticism, play fair and honest and even "Agree to Disagree", we get one who thinks they aren't getting enough attention, or is scamming or is just causing hate and discontent. (I even went there for a while!)It's a mixed bag. Yeah, I'd love to see us mentioned more often on websites throughout the Joe Community and get a little more "respect" but when you get popular, you also get haters. This is a quiet, quaint little site with a LOT of Good people...if it could be a BIG site with a LOT of good people, I'd be down with that, but I just see us getting 20 more "haters" causing headaches!

I could be wrong!

I think about a year ago, I went on an active campaign to lure people over here. I think Lord Raven did a better job than me. There were a few who tried. I don't chill on the JBL anymore, but the JD banner is in my signature so people can click on it and check the place out. Believe me, I've tried to get people over here. But it's so hard. People would rather read fanfic than look at pretty pictures or something.