> > From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/03/05 Mon PM 03:02:38 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Declined... > > mike wilson wrote: > > >"Funding led" means 'rearranging' your principles to attract the > highest amount of funding. As you say, digital images work best when > they are lacking in detail and graphical in nature. If your previous > images were more inclined to hold a lot of detail and subtle nuance, > changing the output to more graphical appearance in order to sell more > might be construed as being funding led. > > Ah, I understand now. That isn't what I was doing, though. Rather, it > was selecting material amost appropriate to the medium and the venue. I > noticed years ago when viewing the PUG that some images that presented > very intriguing thumbnails were disappointing when I saw the image at a > larger size. Conversely, some images that didn't seem like much as > thumbnails looked wonderful when seen larger. (I probably missed some > excellent images when I was short of time, simply because the thumbnail > didn't look promising.) > > And I know from personal experience that there are images which don't > work well as either thumbnails or large web images but need to be seen > as prints. > > But there are some images which have a strong graphical design elements > and which also contain a lot of detail. In other words, they stand up > well as thumbnails and in larger display formats. When displaying in a > web-based venue where the quantity of images you can present is > limited, it only makes sense to try for these "best of both worlds" > photographs. > > I see this as a good way of forcing myself to up my own standards, too. >
Fine if you have a good range of material to select from. I am interested as to how new photographers are, er, developing their style when the majority of their presentation (i.e.viewing on a monitor) works best in a more limited way. Combined with the "rush,rush,rush" mentality of modern life, where things are expected to make a dramatic impact immediately if they are to have any level of success, it seems to me that more subtle images are going to lose out. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
