With a bunch of restructuring going on in the Corner Forums, it can get confusing as to where to put your photographs. Here’s a little breakdown of what should go where. To start off, you have 3 options: the Corner Galleries, the Photo Sharing Corner, and the Critiques & Feedback Corner.

It’s been a long couple of days, but the first phase of the forum restructuring we’ve been doing is now complete. Last night we opened up the new Photo Sharing Corner, and tonight, we’ve opened up the new Critiques & Feedback Corner. Of course, it will take several more weeks for all the old threads to be moved to their new homes, but in the meantime, you can continue to post photos for fun and for critique!

It’s been a long time coming, but we’re finally going to do some restructuring in the Corner Forums. But with almost 50,000 threads and more than 350,000 posts in the Feedback and Critiques Corner alone, it’s going to take some time (if you haven’t already, make sure to thank a mod today).

Right now, on top of the Critiques Corner, we have 18 Feedback Corner sub-forums. For a while, we thought it would be better to have more subject-specific forums. And, for a while, it worked well. Unfortunately with so many forums, it became confusing to old and new members alike. It has gotten to the point where the line between critique and feedback became so blurred that even the mods and myself had a hard time explaining the difference. Sub forums with so many subjects became confusing, and some went all but unused.

Over the past couple of months, we’ve moved all of the photographs from all of our past contests from the Corner Photo Galleries to the new Corner Contest Galleries (hosted by our friends at SmugMug.com). Thanks to some help from one of our mods, Erik Bernskiold, the design of the Corner Contest Galleries is now complete (check it out!).

After some suggestions and recommendations by the members of the Corner Forums and the moderators, we’ve made a couple of small changes in the forums - specifically in the Photography Equipment forums. This really won’t affect many of you, but I thought I’d give you the heads up, just in case the changes are initially a bit confusing. Here’s what we did:

A while back, there was a fantastic suggestion that we create a stickied thread in the Corner Forums so that there’s an easy way for members to make requests of the mods (you know, stuff like: “can you delete this post/thread for me” & “I think this post is spam, can you delete it?” & “can you move or merge this post for me?” etc). Well, I put it on my “todo” list, and it finally worked its’ way close to the top today, so… tada!!! Here’s the thread: Need help? Ask a Mod!! It’s located right near the top of the Questions & Suggestions Forum. So now, instead of sending a private message to myself or a couple of mods, you can ask, and all of the mods (and myself) will be able to check it out right away! How’s that for service??!

While not an overly active section of the forums, PhotographyCorner is one of the few free photography sites that offers a section for Fine Art Nudes. Due to the fact that we have a wide variety of age groups that use the Corner Forums and Galleries, we have our Fine Art Nudes forum set as “private” (you have to ask for permission to have access). Up until recently, our guidelines stated that you had to have been a member for at least 30 days and have at least 50 posts on the forum to ask to access. After some discussions, we’ve slightly altered our entrance requirements.

A couple of weeks ago, we asked a couple of questions of you regarding Email from the Corner and the Number of Contest Wins by One Person. The community voted, and the decisions are in.