Judging Photos

[Mark Cassino]

mike wilson wrote:

> I think that the possible subtleties of "chemical" pictures are being 
> lost/abandoned in favour of "smack'em in the eye" colour and graphic 
> composition.  It's only an impression, which I have no empirical 
> evidence for, but two people on this list in the last month have 
> mentioned it.  My belief is that the preponderance of viewing onscreen, 
> using thumbnails to choose which pictures to look at in any depth, 
> reinforces this type of selection.
> 
I tend to agree. I don't think it's so muyh digital photography as 
web-based presentation (recognizing that the two are linked to some extent.)

I blogged on this last year:

http://tinyurl.com/2e4c84

or

http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php?title=small_size_high_impact&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

To cut to the chase of that article - does Moonrise, Henandez, MN, work 
at web-size?

http://www.hctc.commnet.edu/artmuseum/anseladams/details/pdf/monrise.pdf

Personally, I think it looses something...

- MCC

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