Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/06

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Subject: [Leica] Namche Market: focal zone
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sat Jan 6 22:50:55 2007
References: <001201c73222$d74e53a0$6501a8c0@asus930> <074F7618-81D0-4975-8B39-E7C91A87FFBF@ncable.net.au> <a2f8f4470701062233j5001d668jc34d0004b23df35@mail.gmail.com> <C5D6C2A2-FF8A-4A58-A93B-C25A2FDB0F76@ncable.net.au>

Or the sizes are too big. I have to scroll the horizontal ones as well
... 900 pixel high is making some false assumptions about our screens.
The real estate has to include the 900 pixels and the gallery software
interface. That is a bit big.

Daniel


On 1/7/07, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:
> vertical images are always less effective on the net ;-)
>
> Thanks for the comment
> On 07/01/2007, at 17:33, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
> > Alastair,
> >
> > My immediate reaction when looking at this shot, before I even read
> > this message, was "yes", there is too much that is out of focus.
> >
> > But it might be because the image fills up my screen and I have to
> > scroll to see all of it, and the part that is in focus is what I have
> > to scroll to. The screen is first filled with the out of focus part of
> > the image. So that _might_ be why I reacted the way I did ... I didn't
> > see the image all at once, but only after scrolling.
> >
> > Sitting at a laptop today.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > On 1/7/07, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:
> >> Here is one I was sure was going to be a winner: M6 with the 90 or
> >> 135, looking down on the market watching the guy in the foreground go
> >> through his sales pitch: the deal is almost done when I took this
> >> image: I focused on the "action", but the stupa in the background is
> >> therefore out of the range of the DOF. Being white and big, does it
> >> draw the eye and destroy the image, ie is the out of focus part too
> >> dominant and distracting?
> >>
> >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/
> >> album119/2004Nepal152.jpg.html>
> >>
> >> http://www.tiny.cc/USQHR
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Alastair
> >>
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Replies: Reply from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Namche Market: focal zone)
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Message from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Namche Market: focal zone)
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