Well, I wasn't going to respond unless I at least attempted to submit something to the PUG. So I tried. Nevertheless, I'm not offended. ;-)
Even a *small* rendering of a photo, 500x400 pixels, compressed at median JPEG settings, is difficult to upload with a 75K limitation. Virtually impossible to upload a photo that size with an embedded ICC profile and metadata which preserves my copyright and contact information. The PUG's format must date from a while back ... People today look at 500K image files without batting an eyelash. No wonder so many of the photos render on screen with such poor quality. I could compress the photo I was going to submit even further or make it even smaller, or strip out my metadata, but I don't really like to reduce the quality of the photographs I present so much. I guess I'll pass. Godfrey On Jun 20, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > Today is the last day to submit entries for the July Pentax Users' > Gallery (PUG). > > The theme is "What is it?" but one can also submit any photo in the > "open" section of the PUG gallery. > > The entries must be submitted here: > > http://oksne.net/autopug/PUGform.asp > > The professional photographers among us and the photographic artistes > have decided that the PUG is beneath them -- too many crude and > inartistic entries -- but I think that there are still a few amateurs > on this list who don't take themselves so seriously and would enjoy > posting in a general gallery like this and later seeing what others > are doing and how they interpret the theme of the month. It's fun. > > You can comment on the entries if you feel like it or just enjoy the > ones you like and laugh at the efforts, like mine, that are a bit > weak. It's an informal thing. You can post your shots here even if > you don't have a photography homepage or a gallery of your own > somewhere else. The ease of participating is one of the things that > makes it so nice for us hacks. > > Please keep it quiet, however, we don't want to offend the Pros. . . > > Dan M -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
