Good points, Rob. Thanks for your input.
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Originally Posted by Rob_K
Well, I'm going to be a naysayer. Most of the sketches we see are posted as adjuncts to obs reports and belong there. If you're sketching as an artform, post it in the imaging sections. That's where they have appeared in the past.
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This is true - there have been several astronomy sketches in the solar system or deep space imaging forums.
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Originally Posted by Rob_K
I'm against the on-going splintering of the forum. The 'beginners' sections drive me mad, duplicating other sections of the forum on an arbitrary and ill-defined basis, to the point where I don't bother going there any more. The major prob with these sections is that they drive a wedge between sections of the astro community, and require participants to make a ridiculous judgement as to when they are no longer a 'newbie' (another term that drives me absolutely troppo!). Would there be a beginners sketching sub-sub-forum for those starting out?  |
A valid point, and I don't like splintering forums either.
However sometimes it can be very daunting for a beginner to 'enter into' the world of the 'experts' and don't feel comfortable posting their images in the deep space section (for example).
The beginners imaging forum was to allow them to feel comfortable posting there.
I don't necessarily agree that it drives a wedge between the newbies and the 'experienced'. There's no graduation between newbie and 'experienced' - when they feel comfortable they'll post in the other 'non-beginner' sections.