Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/07

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Subject: [Leica] New Leica Website
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Mon Jul 7 12:54:08 2008
References: <36e5c0b10807061958t6d53c96aqf8a57974471281bf@mail.gmail.com> <20080707184306.53A505847ED@smtp1.nine.ch>

Didier is right.

You have some VERY nice photos, but they load much too slowly.

Nice work on the photos tough.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/




On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Didier Ludwig wrote:

> Very impressive series, Eric. You captured a lot of interesting  
> personalities, and you captured them well. No need to add the brand  
> name of your camera in your post's subject line to make it more  
> interesting!
>
> Didier
>
> ps: just a web-technical advice - you used all hi resolution images  
> for your website and then resized them with the html image size  
> parameters. Or better said, your program probably did. For instance  
> a 3600 x 2880 pixel file (10MB) is displayed as 560x448 - a picture  
> with that effective size would weight 50KB - 200KB, equal 0.5% to 2%  
> of the hi res sample.
>
> This is not useful in two meanings: it makes loading your website  
> significantly slower, and images resized by html look less good  
> (because they're not anti-aliased = more pixelated) than when  
> correctly resized and moderately unsharp masked, in a picture  
> editing program (like photoshop, lightroom, aperture, or many others).
>
> I dont know your website tool (Trellix Site Builder), it might have  
> an internal picture resizing feature. Otherwise you may use one of  
> the above mentioned apps, or another. There are tons of free little  
> programs doing that, for instance (if you have a windows based  
> computer),  "PIXresizer", "Mihov Image Resizer", "Microsoft Image  
> Resizer" (allows resizing with right clicking on a picture).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> Dear LUG members,
>> I just set up a new webpage on street photography using the Leica.
>> The address is:
>> http://www.streetphotographyisrael.com/
>> Have a look. I'd appreciate any feedback from Leica users who are
>> street photographers. There is also a blog associated with the site.
>> Many thanks.
>> Eric W.A. Boehm, PhD
>
>
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In reply to: Message from eboehmjr at gmail.com (Eric Boehm, Jr) ([Leica] New Leica Website)
Message from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] New Leica Website)