Heck the list will do what it will do, I've brought a few people in over the years but not many stayed, the delivery format and content doesn't suite most people these days. Let's face it if you want to discuss gear there are plenty of other places to go that offer far more depth and if you want as many people as possible to see your work or pats on the back or robust critiques then again this list is probably not the place to be.
To me it's mainly a bunch or people who many I've known in the virtual world for quite a long time now and it's interesting to have watched their work, focus and lives change over the decades! The pub analogy is often trotted out and really it's probably best fit for this place, more like the village local in fact. Re Darren's comment below I'm primarily a vertical shooter, it suits me and it suits my subjects the vast majority of times, I often get close in on a subject and I have to make use of negative space far too much when I shoot horizontally though it does work sometimes. I refuse to let digital media delivery systems dictate what I do and what will work perfectly well in print so I'm glad that Ricoh are looking after the vertical shooters :) I wish I had more time to check out and comment on other peoples work here but currently I don't, hopefully things will change a bit next year and I'll have more time free to indulge in such pleasures. On 13 December 2013 03:19, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > The vertical sensor is also a little meaningless (and hardly qualifies > as "innovation", in my book). I like vertical shots and probably take > more than the average person, but there is no question that we live in > a horizontal/landscape world, especially when it comes to image > presentation on the web. Your monitor is horizontal. The layout of > most online photogalleries will thus show a horizontally composed > image at a larger size than a vertically composed one, which must be > scaled down to fit within the vertical dimension of your monitor. We > saw this same problem with the PDML annual (at least a couple of years > ago, the last time I looked) when a horizontal page layout was used, > making the vertical compositions look far less impressive than the > horizontally composed ones. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
