[Leica] Re: Size Matters (Ted Grant)

[rpalmier at depaul.edu (bob palmieri)]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

>
> Actually I don't care what size they are as long as they're worth  
> printing
> or collecting in a binder album! And for potential hanging some  
> where in my
> home! That is, if that's what the main plan is here? Or is it posting
> photographs to be critiqued?
>
>
Ted -

Whaddya mean by "here?"  The reason I posted this to the LUG was that  
it was a general thing about print sizes, not about the Swap Team  
upload proceedure.

Bob Palmieri

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> The other thing is, set a "this is the size to transmit!" period.  
> Never mind
> having  a half dozen transmit sizes that people have used for  
> sending photos
> to relatives.
>
>
>
> Set a "SWAP-TEAM" criteria and that's what's used! By everyone while
> maintaining consistency of quality!
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>
> However, the most important thing here is KISS!
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>
>
> Get a routine that allows a picture on my screen or anyone else's  
> that's
> ready to send -- click somewhere, wherever I'm told! And the damn  
> picture
> goes without a bunch of fiddling back and forth between 2 - 3 other
> locations clicking. Only to find it's not where you thought it was  
> going to
> go.
>
>
>
> To some degree we have too many cooks screwing up the broth with e- 
> mails of
> all kinds of systems and suggestions being used by different  
> posters. I have
> enough problems doing any of this picture posting remembering pixel  
> and
> photo physical size without re-reading several different e-mails  
> trying to
> follow what should be a simple transmit routine as in:.
>
> "Click here ---- picture gone into the right location. Period."
>
>
>
> It's beginning to look like a decision by committee and it never  
> works!!!
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>
> Hoppy you put up the rules and everybody else shut-up and do what  
> you're
> told.
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> When we joined the LUG the instructions were simple.. "THIS IS HOW  
> IT'S
> DONE! PERIOD!" Not every Tom, Dick and Harry trying to rearrange  
> the system.
> Brian is the boss and we followed.
>
>
>
> In the case of the "SWAP-TEAM" it's Hoppy! So Captain set yer  
> course and
> we'll all end up at the same destination with smiles!
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>
>
> Thank you,
>
> ted
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of bob
> palmieri
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:48 AM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Size Matters
>
>
>
> Folks -
>
>
>
> Hoppy & I were having a discussion in the Print Swappers' Club about
>
> image sizes and I thought I'd post these musings to the larger
>
> community in a effort to get some clear ideas on the subject.
>
>
>
> Short version: Here are examples of 2 snaps that I shot a few weeks
>
> ago.  The duotone/infrared shot seems best realized as a 4 x 6 (5 x 7
>
> max) because, to me, it heightens the sense of discovery and doesn't
>
> yell out and grab you when stuck up on the wall.  (Also, in this case
>
> the grain has appeal for me at a certain absolute size, but it's not
>
> really the main thing here...)
>
>
>
> http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/coba
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> The color tableau, on the other hand, really needs to be around 2
>
> feet wide so someone can peer around in various corners of the
>
> image.  Also, the Big Color thing seems more festive or some such  
> thing.
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>
>
> I'm also debating this size business with 2 other snappers; we may be
>
> doing a 3 man show in a few months and one of these guys really feels
>
> that each one of us needs to commit to a single size for all of his
>
> images to foster more "unity of the individual's vision."
>
>
>
> Anyone have a strong take on this stuff?
>
>
>
> Bob Palmieri
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>