On Aug 15, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On 11-08-15 7:27 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >>> I find I'm happier with the trad grid thumbnail layout these days. I can >>> browse the thumbs and choose a couple to inspect. If I like what I see I >>> will walk through more of the gallery. Flickriver (and all the other >>> "infinite-list" brethren) doesn't give you that option. Either you wait for >>> all the fullsize images to load or you get nothing. >> If the flickr grid were the whole image scaled down to 120 pixels, that >> would be my preference, but they do some arbitrary 100 pixel square crop, >> which is inevitably bad. I will point out that if you prefer the flickr >> interface (and you may be the only person on the planet that does) and don't >> want to do something else while it preloads, you can always easily tweak the >> url > > That's what I later did. > > Don't get me wrong though, I *don't* like Flickr's grid either. That > arbitrary 100x100px crop thing sux. > > I'm still wandering around randomly looking for a better photo-site. 500px > has some nice bits, but you can't even create sets unless you go "Awesome" > (paid level). Lately I've been putting small galleries up on Dropbox by > exporting HTML directly from Lightroom. Dumb as a bag of Canikon glass, but > it works.
I'll eventually "do it right" on http://www.redforestphoto.com For some value of "right" > > >> >> I do like LRC24079, >> :-) That was a case of blown focus. EXIF doesn't say whether it was manual >> or auto focus, but either my eye, or the camera picked the tuning keys to >> adjust on, leaving the bass player out of focus. Just as I was about to get >> rid of that photo, I saw this crop in it, and decided I liked it. > > I *never* delete shots unless they are 100% white or black. I mark them as > Reject if they are very crappy, but they are always restorable. > > I hope you take this as a lesson. :) I only delete shots that are totally blown from my mac. And still keep backup copies of everything, straight off the card, on my Linux box. A very similar thing happened to me with this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4902762069/in/set-72157624636199391 I forgot that the 16-50 was on manual focus and didn't notice it when I was photographing the Veyron with the other bug in the background. When I was sorting photos, I realized the upper right corner was a better picture than the one I was trying to take. > > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
