I've now made a few more changes. It's horizontally laid out and few more slides removed.
feel free to check it out luka On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Luka Knezevic-Strika <[email protected]> wrote: > Good call Paul, I did eliminate that slide! > About the length, I find it great when people end it wishing for more. > I've found that with longer edits, i.e. 30 slides with 2 or more > pictures, many people don't go through. it has to do with the web > attention span, it's really rare that people are ready to go for a > long time just clicking next-next :) > > I also found that very few people focused on the pairings, and the way > it works or doesn't and on the overall flow of the slideshow. somehow, > most of the comments are about individual images. This partly has to > mean that the whole thing doesn't work well enough, but i think it > also has to do with the way people are used to looking at photos > online, which is mostly singled out photos or sometimes straight > slideshows. > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:15 PM, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: >> I found this to be a fascinating set – not at all typical of travel pics >> and certainly not narcissistic. There is something profound about the >> pairings. I found myself looking for the linkage, and I was disappointed >> when the slide show concluded. The only two that I would eliminate are the >> forest and the lake. They just don't fit. Love the shot of the crowd, where >> only one man in the rear is in focus. My eye immediately searched for the >> point of focus, and its discovery was rewarding and interesting in that the >> subject was looking back at me. Well done. >> Paul >> >> >> On Dec 2, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: >> >>> Luka - Carlos is a quite harsh -- but I agree with him to the extent that >>> you should have pruned a bit more - because your best work >>> is so very strong... and you know I'm a fan. But there are certainly >>> more than 1 or 2 keepers, Carlos! >>> >>> I had a bit of problem viewing the slideshow - because of the wide white >>> borders and I have a strong preference for seeing a stream of images that >>> read left to right instead of up and down. I also wanted to be able to >>> look at each photo alone... as I often liked one of a pair much better >>> than the other... if for no other reason than I could say I really liked >>> one of them and could do so by grabbing a link to show you. Like the second >>> photo on the page where the guy on top is guzzling a beer. The shot below >>> it is terrific... also the one >>> where there are all those chairs on a roof top - >>> >>> ann >>> >>> >>> >>> Luka Knezevic-Strika wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks guys. >>>> >>>> @carlos: i appreciate your opinion, although my goal here was not >>>> really to post the best photos necessarily, but to try and create a >>>> short essay/narrative. i mainly focused on the pairings and the flow >>>> of the slide show. i can accept that i've failed at that too, if >>>> that's your opinion. thank you, anyway, of course! >>>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Carlos R <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> El 02/12/2010 3:09, Luka Knezevic-Strika escribió: >>>>> >>>>>> A short photo-essay in diptychs from my trip to Austria and Romania: >>>>>> http://www.lukaknezevicstrika.com/gallery.html (click on the first >>>>>> slideshow - austria romania) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> I am an admirer of your work, but this time I think there are only a few >>>>> keepers in your trip photos, perhaps 1 or 2. Many of them look like the >>>>> usual narcissistic, dispensable pics you can see by miriads looking at >>>>> Flickr pages. >>>>> Sorry if I sound a bit harsh, that's not my intention, I try hard to be >>>>> constructive and friendly but I think a frank opinion is the best possible >>>>> thing amongst friends. >>>>> >>>>> Carlos >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>>> follow the directions. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
