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This is a little outside the usual C&C format, but it's what I normally shoot - a whole event, and put 10-20 shots up as a photo essay. Sometimes more as this time when there was more happening in my head than I could get into 20 shots.

Larger images here (1.3MB the page, large images up to 100kB per):
http://www.moz.net.nz/photo/2006/04/01-pirates/

This shot has something, but I couldn't get it to come through in the photo too well. Hints?


A chance to use the specular reflections from the short lens:


Interested to hear what people think.

I've deleted your poll because it's irrelevant and unneccessary.

The limits are simple, and have been mentioned in prior posts far too many bloody times, as well as being outlined in the FAQ. No more than 10 images per post. No side of any image to be greater than 800 pixels. File sizes should be reasonable to consider our DU users. Photoshop's "save For The Web" <strike>bug</strike> feature should be avoided because it strips out EXIF data.

And FTR, one image is one image. Four or six (or however many) images, photochopped together into one file, are still four or six (or however many) images. The only exception to this is a pano, where stitching a few images to create one image, no wider, and no taller, than 800 pixels, is permitted.

To answer your more specific question, even 10 images, from the one event, is way too many.

Three or maybe four to provide for us a flavour of the event should be sufficient. Those who are interested will go and look at more images through the link that you will have provided.

gstark wrote:I've deleted your poll because it's irrelevant and unneccessary. The limits are simple, and have been mentioned in prior posts far too many bloody times,

I'm sorry that I was not clear. The question I meant to ask was how many images it's reasonable to put on one page of my web site.

If you can restore the poll perhaps I can rephrase the question to make it more obvious.

Ok ... that's different, so thank you for clarifying your intent.

You should be able to edit your original post, but please PM me if you're uinable to restore the poll.

As a guide, I'd probably put just one image per page with three to five thumns leading to prior/next posts, and up to 20 thumbs on a thumbnail page.

Moz,

I checked out your site. At present it's a bit of a mess with the picture sizes and shapes etc. I'd suggest either making it messier so that it looks completely intentional (and a bit more random). Or going with something like gary suggested with a bit more formality.

For me I wouldn't mind either, but I tend to think the less formal hap-hazard method would suit the subject matter in this case.

moz wrote:This shot has something, but I couldn't get it to come through in the photo too well. Hints?

Here we have two well-known modern phenomona:

- the "whale tail" : where the back of the g-string rides up above the pants, looking like the tail of a diving whale

- the "muffin top": where the hipster pants expose a roll of flesh that balloons out above the top of the pants, just like the shape of the top of a muffin.

These are wild-life images that would be enjoyed by David Attenborough.

Alpha_7 wrote:I'd suggest either making it messier so that it looks completely intentional

You mean mixing up the thumbnail sizes more? Or a text+photos style like my journals. Can you point to any sites that do something like what you're suggesting? I have played a little with replacing the free-flowing list of images with a similar list of one-cell tables so I can add captions, do you think that's worth persuing?

At the moment it's like that as an easy way to get it to resize well. I haven't seen an organised thumb gallery that works well on various size screens (the indymedia audience is geeks through to internet cafes, so I my target screen res really is 800x600 to >1600x1200 [1]). The other real constraint is that there's usually time pressure and I'd like to have something that is the same for my panic runs as my next-day galleries. For example, my Forbes photos were generally up within an hour of the event.

The subtext here is that I'm looking at reorganising that site, with 20k photos up it's become unweildy. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. I know I need to do a lot more meta-info, and come up with a site that's seach-friendly as well as catalogued. Hence my interest in iMatch as well as Gallery2.

[1]Viz, I get complaints from people using both those resolutions if I muck it up.