Rick, I think you are right. I prefer galleries that come with thumbnail overviews. Editing is hard work and we all don't do enough of it. Sometimes you want a gallery to show a concept or effect, but showing the number of photos in the header is a good idea. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I've been looking over the view counts that photo.net provides on my photos. > > Photos I post in a gallery (GESO) get only 1/5 to 1/10 as many views as > photos posted singly (PESO). There are several shots that languished in > GESOs for weeks with 20 views; posting them as PESOs zoomed the views to 150. > > Everyone likes to have their photos seen, but sometimes single photos don't > tell the desired story, and only a gallery will do the job; but the GESO > header dooms one's photos to obscurity. > > I confess that I hesitate to open GESOs myself. > > Too many GESOs are far too large, repetitive, and tedious. It's common to > see a dozen shots of runners/cyclists/motorcycles/race cars going around the > same curve, from the same angle, in the same light. Galleries of a dozen > shots of the same flower abound. Somewhere in all those shots there are > often one or two that are gems, but the viewer shouldn't be asked to do the > editing for the photographer. > > This leads to two proposals: > > First, that all of us give more attention to editing our galleries. > > Second, that the subject line indicate how large the gallery is; for example, > "GESO(12) - Dog Poop" tells the viewer that twelve shots of Spot's output > lurk behind. That might encourage more careful editing, and allay the fears > of viewers that following the link is going to keep them busy for an hour. > > Now I'm going to puzzle over how best to post more Toronto pictures. > > Rick > > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
