Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/28

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Subject: [Leica] Week 8 possibilities
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Tue Feb 28 04:47:22 2006
References: <02E3BCF2-E177-4038-972A-63CD7C067749@mindspring.com> <6.1.0.6.2.20060227205502.09ecfe70@192.168.100.42>

Thanks for the look, Richard--

I guess I just started using 200k as a target size for 800 pixel  
shots for the list. I don;t really know what others use.

What are your suggested targets for file size, fellas?

Thanks for the input, folks.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies

On Feb 27, 2006, at 11:58 PM, Richard wrote:

> Hi Ric
> First of all, can you resize them smaller? I found ~100K a good  
> compromise between image quality and general download time. Higher  
> than that and it becomes more a chore for people (I am on SDSL  
> ~387K bytes/s).
>
> Second, picture wise, they are all kind of nice but something is  
> lacking. They all have a main subject in some surrounding but I  
> can't really connect the subjects to the backgrounds. I am not sure  
> whether it is a case of getting closer or somehow relate the  
> background more.
>
> At 08:13 PM 2/27/2006, Ric Carter wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, I got to take a break of about two hours from preparing
>> taxes and student aid applications for my college-bound 17-year-old.
>> I spent it in downtown Washington, NC. Here are four shots from a 4-5
>> block area. Little Washington has a population of 10,000.
>>
>> Hope you enjoy:
>>
>> A jogger passses the furniture store and temptation
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album334/8_chairs
>>
>> A framed picture gets a bike delivery
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album334/8_bike
>>
>> A young lady calls a friend from the salon
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album334/8_phone
>>
>> A delivery boy awaits his work call
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album334/8_board
>
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly,  
> please use richard at imagecraft.com)
>
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