Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Thanks, but saturated is what sells these days - way over-saturated > usually. The thumbnail has to stand out in the crowd: > If you look at that mix, though, (as much as I could stand to, anyway) it's not JUST the oversaturated colors. Those are shots that were designed from the beginning for that treatment... very simple, very graphic, very two-dimensional style. They read easily and quickly as thumbnails because they haven't GOT anything that's not immediately apparent. They're camera cartoons, really - no depth, no reality. And you're right, that's what's in the mass markets. The world as DisneyLand. I'm not sure you can get there from here on your files, from what I've seen. Your photos depend on the relationship between your subjects and you, and all the complexity and nuance and detail that brings into them. I don't think you can take that out of them without ripping the guts out and STILL winding up with an inferior product. You're trying to play Bach on a ukulele, and it doesn't work so well ... I think you have to start with that sort of output in mind and plan your images to work that way. Maybe you could experiment with that a little on the trip, see if you can find images that want to be bright meaningless glitz and glamour, forget impressing the LUGgers, and see what happens? In the meantime, when do we get to see YOUR books? :-) (please imagine big puppydog eyes in the smiley as I can't find a character for them.) -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request