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pecuniumI like bigger pictures. They provide more detail, are easier to apprehend and host of other things. Not the least of which is they require me to be more critical of my work. A wealth of sins can be covered by running the image small. A trifle out of focus... not a problem if the image is only 2" wide.
I have been aiming for 600-800 pixels wide. I do this because my laptop screen is a little larger than a phone-book, and 800 pixels shows up just fine. I prefer to have a picture fit in the screen, so one need not scroll. I am not sure quite what to do about those shots which are vertical. The aim of making the image large enough to see detail means that (in part because the screen has a horizontal orientation) the image won't fit well.
My best effort compromise is to have the main subject in the screen and the context a trifle hindered.
I suppose I can link to the smaller version page of my pictures, but that means individual links and I am so-so on that idea (which doesn't seem to be so overwhelming a desire that I feel duty-bound to change things to that method). I put the pictures up in an order, and (more, or less) to a size, which has a purpose. I try to make some sort of either narrative, or visual whole, out of them,
This often dictates the overall size of the post. I may take to chopping them into subsets.
Today I hooked up the CRT and started playing with it. Unhappily, for me, the pictures I've been working on look much better on the laptop. The shadows seem to be blocking up on the CRT. Mind you I also changed the calibration gamma to 2.2 at 6500K, so that might have something to do with it (though both of them are supposed to be at the same level, so that shouldn't be a real factor.
Playing with Photoshop, so I can get things looking the way I want them to look. Not a whole lot I can do about the monitors on the other end, but I can be sure when I make prints they come out right.
I have been aiming for 600-800 pixels wide. I do this because my laptop screen is a little larger than a phone-book, and 800 pixels shows up just fine. I prefer to have a picture fit in the screen, so one need not scroll. I am not sure quite what to do about those shots which are vertical. The aim of making the image large enough to see detail means that (in part because the screen has a horizontal orientation) the image won't fit well.
My best effort compromise is to have the main subject in the screen and the context a trifle hindered.
I suppose I can link to the smaller version page of my pictures, but that means individual links and I am so-so on that idea (which doesn't seem to be so overwhelming a desire that I feel duty-bound to change things to that method). I put the pictures up in an order, and (more, or less) to a size, which has a purpose. I try to make some sort of either narrative, or visual whole, out of them,
This often dictates the overall size of the post. I may take to chopping them into subsets.
Today I hooked up the CRT and started playing with it. Unhappily, for me, the pictures I've been working on look much better on the laptop. The shadows seem to be blocking up on the CRT. Mind you I also changed the calibration gamma to 2.2 at 6500K, so that might have something to do with it (though both of them are supposed to be at the same level, so that shouldn't be a real factor.
Playing with Photoshop, so I can get things looking the way I want them to look. Not a whole lot I can do about the monitors on the other end, but I can be sure when I make prints they come out right.
