On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 05:09:21PM -0000, Bob W wrote: > > > It was pointed out to me, offlist, that most people on pdml post > > mostly pesos, and rarely gesos. That it takes a lot of time to > > critically analyze every picture in a gallery, and that posting so > > many gesos is rather inconsiderate of people's time. For that I > > apologize. > > > > I'm rather surprised about that. Nobody is obliged to analyze anybody's > gallery, critically or not. I tend to look at galleries, decide quickly > whether I want to spend more time on them, and either look later or walk on > by. I don't think you should be discouraged from posting galleries at all.
That's how I thought it worked. I figure that if I post something, someone will probably spend a certain amount of time looking at it. If it's a photograph that photo will get more attention than any particular photo in a gallery. When I ask for suggestions on a gallery, I'm looking for feedback on my work as a whole, for example the comment that I should shoot flowers on cloudier days. And I certainly appreciate the feedback and experience available here, the camera-fu exhibited by this group can certainly be humbling. In general, when I post something, it's not so much asking people for their time, as saying that I posted some shots the might be fun, so if you're bored, take a look, and of course feedback is always appreciated. On the other hand, I make my own guesses about what is considered SOP on this forum and occasionally put my foot in it. I've learned my lesson about posting links to auctions, though it seems that it is OK to bring non-auctions to people's attention. I've also learned that it seems to be considered impolite to allow a thread to continue on topic for two long without starting a string of puns, making fun of Cotty, or preferably, both. > > What I would like more people to do when they have more than one picture to > show is post a link to a single gallery of thumbnails, rather than a link to > each picture. It is far easier and more convenient to navigate a gallery > than to keep switching between applications to click links in the email, > especially if the pictures in the gallery have next & previous links. Again, that was my understanding. Likewise I try to use flickriver rather than flickr because it seems to have a much better interface. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
