Please critique my G1 gallery

[arifleong]

Hi:

I just opened up my e-gallery at http://www.webmeridian.com/gallery. There will be many more photos posted.

These shots gone thru very little software doctoring and they are presented almost exactly as the original scenes, my preference as a photographer. So you will see some with white sky, kinda over-exposed but that was how the scene on a cloudy day. Sometimes hard to get clear sky in the north-east.

Constructive advice welcome.

Enjoy!

Arif

[Pekka]

Nice start! I liked you flowers and the tortured trunk. The Quechee Gorge River looks good but the weather is not very flattering to the scene.

PS. small Flash code bug: after the fade the right side of the photo moves one pixel to the left (IE 6).

[Eric F.]

I really liked your pictures of the "White Yellow Flowers" and "Under the giant". I especially liked the way your site works on the full size pictures, after it loads then it all fades in. very neat! :)

Please let me know whenever you have more of your photos on the site. Also, if you would share your favorites by imbeding them in the message. Overall I like your approach and composition.

Thanks for sharing.

[arifleong]

Hi Pekka:

I agree. I was sad that the weather was cloudy when I shot the Quechee in Vermont.

About the Flash bug. I didn't see it in IE 5.0 or Netscape 4.7. But I know pretty well that IE 6.0 has lots of bugs that MS is still fixing them. Even Netscape 6.0 has lots of bugs that is why our IT team avoided using them for now.

The reason I converted them to Flash is to prevent download. Not so much of the fading effect. :-)

Now somebody comment that my photos appeared too bright. I would like your opinion on that whether I set my monitors too dark when I picked the photos or something. I do use anti-glare screens. I may have to pick other exposures for these photos.

Arif

[gandini]

arifleong wrote:
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Now somebody comment that my photos appeared too bright. I would like your opinion on that whether I set my monitors too dark when I picked the photos or something. I do use anti-glare screens. I may have to pick other exposures for these photos.



Arif:
I have set my 21" Trinitron up specifically to edit, and view, photographs, and I don't find your images bright, or dark, or anything but spot-on. So you have either set up your monitor well, or are just plain lucky. If you haven't run Adobe Gamma, or gone to some of the monitor set up websites, then do it just to confirm that your settings are right.

There's a link in one of my technical pages for monitor calibration (see gallery below).

cheers, and keep posting photos for us to enjoy.