New Gallery

[rmhall]

I have just started with digital photography with a one month old G1. I have created a gallery, very crude, and would like to have any and all comments about the pictures (not the site itself).

http://web.wt.net/~rmhall

Mike

[Don Ellis]

Since you asked... the shots are really too small for any sort of appreciation. You might also consider picking your best shots -- for example, your spider shot looks like it might be great, but there are three of them (which, of course, you're allowed to do :-) But you haven't done that for the others.

Back to size... if you didn't have the title "Spider" on them, I wouldn't have known what it was. I am running 1600x1200, but your pictures are some of the smaller gallery pictures I've seen.

Just a thought.

[rmhall]

Thanks for looking,

How big would you make them, I though 800X600 at 72 dpi was the recommended size for the web?

Did you click on the picture after clicking on the thumbnail?

Thanks,

Mike

[Don Ellis]

rmhall wrote:
Did you click on the picture after clicking on the thumbnail?
Uh, no... actually, I'm accustomed to only one thumbnail, which is on your first page of multiple pictures. Once I click on the smallest thumbnail, I guess I expect to go to a larger picture rather than a larger thumbnail.

Now that I know ... great spider!

[rmhall]

Like I said, the gallery layout sucks, I am just starting and will find/do something better.

The spider was spooky, I am not real sure what kind it is. I've been meaning to go to the local nature center and ask.

The neat thing about the spider is that I got it while walking my dog, in about 15 kts of wind and he was about 2 feet above my head. I used the G1's macro, with the wind and dog pulling on me. I took about 50 shots to get the few that turned out decent. Before the G1, there was no way I would use that kind of film to be sure of getting a shot.

Mike

[Don Ellis]

I understand ... you're talking to the man who took 220 shots of one preying mantis to get seven decent ones.

It's amazing how many years you can live and how many nature shows you can watch and still you see a creature that's like nothing you've ever imagined before -- that's your spider.

You might try auto-levels and a little sharpening on him (her) for a little more drama.