Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually I don't care what size they are as long as they're worth printing or collecting in a binder album! And for potential hanging some where in my home! That is, if that's what the main plan is here? Or is it posting photographs to be critiqued? The other thing is, set a "this is the size to transmit!" period. Never mind having a half dozen transmit sizes that people have used for sending photos to relatives. Set a "SWAP-TEAM" criteria and that's what's used! By everyone while maintaining consistency of quality! However, the most important thing here is KISS! Get a routine that allows a picture on my screen or anyone else's that's ready to send -- click somewhere, wherever I'm told! And the damn picture goes without a bunch of fiddling back and forth between 2 - 3 other locations clicking. Only to find it's not where you thought it was going to go. To some degree we have too many cooks screwing up the broth with e-mails of all kinds of systems and suggestions being used by different posters. I have enough problems doing any of this picture posting remembering pixel and photo physical size without re-reading several different e-mails trying to follow what should be a simple transmit routine as in:. "Click here ---- picture gone into the right location. Period." It's beginning to look like a decision by committee and it never works!!! Hoppy you put up the rules and everybody else shut-up and do what you're told. When we joined the LUG the instructions were simple.. "THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE! PERIOD!" Not every Tom, Dick and Harry trying to rearrange the system. Brian is the boss and we followed. In the case of the "SWAP-TEAM" it's Hoppy! So Captain set yer course and we'll all end up at the same destination with smiles! Thank you, ted -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of bob palmieri Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:48 AM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] Size Matters Folks - Hoppy & I were having a discussion in the Print Swappers' Club about image sizes and I thought I'd post these musings to the larger community in a effort to get some clear ideas on the subject. Short version: Here are examples of 2 snaps that I shot a few weeks ago. The duotone/infrared shot seems best realized as a 4 x 6 (5 x 7 max) because, to me, it heightens the sense of discovery and doesn't yell out and grab you when stuck up on the wall. (Also, in this case the grain has appeal for me at a certain absolute size, but it's not really the main thing here...) http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/coba The color tableau, on the other hand, really needs to be around 2 feet wide so someone can peer around in various corners of the image. Also, the Big Color thing seems more festive or some such thing. I'm also debating this size business with 2 other snappers; we may be doing a 3 man show in a few months and one of these guys really feels that each one of us needs to commit to a single size for all of his images to foster more "unity of the individual's vision." Anyone have a strong take on this stuff? Bob Palmieri _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.14/1172 - Release Date: 12/5/2007 8:41 AM