Please comment on my photography website

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edavid
Aug 26, 2003
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Hello,

I developed a dynamic online photo gallery for a photographer, Ron Gershman, and would welcome your comments:
http://www.rongershman.net/

Ron is a psychiatrist and sees many parallels between that world and photography. Perhaps you will find his imagery therapeutic in some way.

He does all his own image work in Photoshop (check the image "nudes on a wall" in the black and white section) and even uploads and categorizes his own photos. While I am the web developer, Ron is really the "webmaster" in terms of using our content management tool to control his own site.

All images are free to view, of course, and Ron will send prints at no charge to those who donate to childlaborphotoproject.org (see the info page).

If you wish to comment on the site design, functionality, etc, please do so here.

Comments for Ron on his photography, or his philosophy, may be sent via the online Contact form.

Many thanks for your time and attention. If in return you would like my comments on a site that you have online, please let me know and I’d be glad to pitch in my two cents.
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Ted
Aug 26, 2003
If you wish to comment on the site design, functionality, etc, please do so here.
With ‘thumbnails’ of 160K dialupers are virtually excluded.
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Mister Max
Aug 26, 2003
(goldzeppelin) posted:

Hello,

I developed a dynamic online photo gallery for a photographer, Ron Gershman, and would welcome your comments:
http://www.rongershman.net/
The site is fine – since I have a fast cable-modem connection. There’s no point in thumbnails that big – the picture quality isn’t good because thumbnails, by definition, are small. Does making the images "progressive" accomplish anything?
I like the "click anywhere to close this window." Don’t remember seeing that on any other site.

IMO, the pictures have too much contrast – both color and BW.

Ron is a psychiatrist and sees many parallels between that world and photography. Perhaps you will find his imagery therapeutic in some way.

He does all his own image work in Photoshop (check the image "nudes on a wall" in the black and white section)

I couldn’t find this photo. Link?

Many thanks for your time and attention. If in return you would like my comments on a site that you have online, please let me know and I’d be glad to pitch in my two cents.

Sure, take a look at the site below and fire away.

– Max

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steve
Aug 26, 2003
it is very heavy
I can not even wet until is fully loaded
you have to compress the images
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ben-dover
Aug 26, 2003
didnt get to see all of the thumbs the end of the world got here before they finished loading. you should try chopped up gif’s or something to get them to load faster.
"goldzeppelin" wrote in message
Hello,

I developed a dynamic online photo gallery for a photographer, Ron Gershman, and would welcome your comments:
http://www.rongershman.net/

Ron is a psychiatrist and sees many parallels between that world and photography. Perhaps you will find his imagery therapeutic in some way.

He does all his own image work in Photoshop (check the image "nudes on a wall" in the black and white section) and even uploads and categorizes his own photos. While I am the web developer, Ron is really the "webmaster" in terms of using our content management tool to control his own site.

All images are free to view, of course, and Ron will send prints at no charge to those who donate to childlaborphotoproject.org (see the info page).

If you wish to comment on the site design, functionality, etc, please do so here.

Comments for Ron on his photography, or his philosophy, may be sent via the online Contact form.

Many thanks for your time and attention. If in return you would like my comments on a site that you have online, please let me know and I’d be glad to pitch in my two cents.
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edavid
Aug 27, 2003
Mister Max …
(goldzeppelin) posted:

The site is fine – since I have a fast cable-modem connection. There’s no point in thumbnails that big – the picture quality isn’t good because thumbnails, by definition, are small. Does making the images "progressive" accomplish anything?
I like the "click anywhere to close this window." Don’t remember seeing that on any other site.

I hear you, everybody, on the pseudo-thumbnails–that part of the site works well when the images aren’t so large, but the client is in charge of his own images and wants them big and rich (and seems to like the high contrast, but I’ll pass that comment on).

Here’s the link to that image:
<a href=" http://www.rongershman.net/default.asp?id=7&action=subca t&subbrowse=black%20and%20white">Nudes
on a Wall</a>

Go to the third image on top, counting from the left.

IMO, the pictures have too much contrast – both color and BW.

I couldn’t find this photo. Link?

Many thanks for your time and attention. If in return you would like my comments on a site that you have online, please let me know and I’d be glad to pitch in my two cents.

Sure, take a look at the site below and fire away.

– Max

Will do!
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Mike
Aug 27, 2003
You can set your computer to choose to except cookies or reject them as they come in.
Mike
"Hecate" wrote in message
On 26 Aug 2003 11:56:11 -0700, (goldzeppelin)
wrote:

Hello,

I developed a dynamic online photo gallery for a photographer, Ron Gershman, and would welcome your comments:
http://www.rongershman.net/
I clicked the link and it tried to give me a cookie, which I blocked. I then got a 500 error – "Internal Server Error".
You obviously haven’t coded for people who don’t want your cookies.
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Hecate
(Fried computers a specialty)
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Mike
Aug 27, 2003
I find the photography stunning. We don’t as a rule see this kind of imagery here in the UK at least where I live.
All the decay shown in these images with the bright sureal colours compensating for the depressing envoronment. As though the area is on LSD. wether this reflects the mind set of the auther or is the reality is hard to tell I.e. his work infuencing his art and becomimg reality. Very thought provoking.

Mike
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edavid
Aug 27, 2003
Thanks everyone for your comments. Some things (javascript) are per the client’s request. Other things (large file sizes) are the basic setup of the app, and can be overcome with a COM object that our host refuses to install (who can blame him after the last year of hassles?), lastly, yes, the images are stunning (they’re not mine, so I don’t mind saying this) and are one of the reasons I took this development job. Ron keeps coming back from journeys with some brilliant images.

For the writer in the UK, there are some images from your part of the world. Go to the "places" category and there’s an england-ireland subcat.

The cookies that the site requires are only session cookies. You should be able to only turn those on and, as you know, those get dropped when you leave the site.

Also, yes, I’ll make sure to pop my site open in a new window. Good point.
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edavid
Aug 27, 2003
Got cookies turned off. HTML backups for the Javascript may be a tougher nut to crack, but I’ll work on it. Thanks again everyone!

(goldzeppelin) wrote in message news:…
Thanks everyone for your comments. Some things (javascript) are per the client’s request. Other things (large file sizes) are the basic setup of the app, and can be overcome with a COM object that our host refuses to install (who can blame him after the last year of hassles?), lastly, yes, the images are stunning (they’re not mine, so I don’t mind saying this) and are one of the reasons I took this development job. Ron keeps coming back from journeys with some brilliant images.

For the writer in the UK, there are some images from your part of the world. Go to the "places" category and there’s an england-ireland subcat.

The cookies that the site requires are only session cookies. You should be able to only turn those on and, as you know, those get dropped when you leave the site.

Also, yes, I’ll make sure to pop my site open in a new window. Good point.
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edavid
Aug 28, 2003
Just learned that my client, Ron, is going to be featured in Camera Arts magazine soon, demonstrating his Photoshop technique step-by-step. So please now comment on his images, since I think I’ve heard everything I need to hear about the site itself. Thanks!

He does all his own image work in Photoshop (check the image "nudes on a wall" in the black and white section) and even uploads and categorizes his own photos. While I am the web developer, Ron is really the "webmaster" in terms of using our content management tool to control his own site.

All images are free to view, of course, and Ron will send prints at no charge to those who donate to childlaborphotoproject.org (see the info page).

If you wish to comment on the site design, functionality, etc, please do so here.

Comments for Ron on his photography, or his philosophy, may be sent via the online Contact form.

Many thanks for your time and attention. If in return you would like my comments on a site that you have online, please let me know and I’d be glad to pitch in my two cents.
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edavid
Aug 29, 2003
here’s the URL for those hitting this thread directly:

http://www.rongershman.net/

Enjoy!
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edavid
Aug 29, 2003
And here’s his URL:

http://www.rongershman.net/

Enjoy!
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edavid
Aug 30, 2003
OK, thanks all for the comments. I convinced the client to go with real thumbs and suffer an extra upload for each image (or we can batch it in P-shop).

Got all the comments included in this revision, plus a "most popular images" link now (top menu). Take a look:

http://www.rongershman.net/

Enjoy!
MM
Mister Max
Aug 30, 2003
(goldzeppelin) posted:

I convinced the client to go with
real thumbs.

http://www.rongershman.net/

And the new 15KB thumbnails look better than the previous 150KB files shown in small size. – Max

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Slideshows of Angkor Wat, Bali, Crete, France, Malaysia, Maui, Morocco, Mt Holly, Sicily, St Tropez, Singapore, Thailand, Tour de France: http://buten.net/max/
(Yes,RemoveDoubles is part of my email address. The double letters in my last name are not.)
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edavid
Aug 30, 2003
Thanks. And all it took was an Action: reduce image size to 100 px height, constrain proportions, then Filter > Sharpen and Save for Web JPG 80%

batch it to a new folder, upload the thumbs, point the script to the new directory, and then create a second upload area for thumbs for the client’s content management console.

The view medium and large links still use the large image size. Load speed is not so much of an issue on the medium sized display, and I didn’t want create yet another set of "thumbs." The medium choice was added as an option for 800×600 users.

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