Can you help me please (choosing for an exhibition) ?

[dievee]

Hi,

I photographed swans during a whole year and started selecting them, a real pain, I have so many pictures of them and it will take me more then a week full time to select them. I made a gallery with a first selection (of those that I already checked, many have to follow) and I like them all for several reasons and it would be great to hear which ones (3 or 5) you prefer. I have to select around 20 of them for an exposition later this year and it would be a great help if you could help me choosing. I will continue making selections myself, have more then 50% of my series that I have to check and already have now selected more then 200 images.

You can see the first selection here and it would be great if you could mention your 3 or maybe 5 preferred images:

http://www.pbase.com/dievee/swans__the_exposition

Thanks a lot,

Dirk

[ukexpat]

Hi,

I photographed swans during a whole year and started selecting them, a real pain, I have so many pictures of them and it will take me more then a week full time to select them. I made a gallery with a first selection (of those that I already checked, many have to follow) and I like them all for several reasons and it would be great to hear which ones (3 or 5) you prefer. I have to select around 20 of them for an exposition later this year and it would be a great help if you could help me choosing. I will continue making selections myself, have more then 50% of my series that I have to check and already have now selected more then 200 images.

You can see the first selection here and it would be great if you could mention your 3 or maybe 5 preferred images:

http://www.pbase.com/dievee/swans__the_exposition

Thanks a lot,

Dirk

Dirk

They are all great but my top fine in no particular order:

Fly Lesson

Food Morning

The Inversion

Soft Protection

Autumn

[matiasasun]

First, Two things:
a) All your pictures are great. Chossing a few is really a hard work. And I mean really hard work.
b) Webdev stylesheet makes it hard to see images in the general gallery display. Maybe you can try the same general idea of webdev but without the Dim thumbnail...

Ok now the list:
1° The white angel (My favorite)
2° Natural brightness
3° The couple
4° The fugitive
5° White chaos

But maybe I´m just obssesed with white
Hope my selection could help you.

Matias, Chile

[dkite]

All of the photo's are really great, but it's hard to advise when I'm not sure of the theme through the photo's you've already chosen. I think what I'm trying to say is that there's no point in choosing strong images, like the couple if the rest of the images chosen are dreamy and etheral such as impression.

Wonderful photo's though, all of them.

[dievee]

They are all great but my top fine in no particular order:

Fly Lesson

Food Morning

The Inversion

Soft Protection

Autumn

Hi UKexpat,

Thanks very much for the appreciation and for helping me.

With kind regards,
Dirk

[dievee]

First, Two things:
a) All your pictures are great. Chossing a few is really a hard work. And I mean really hard work.
b) Webdev stylesheet makes it hard to see images in the general gallery display. Maybe you can try the same general idea of webdev but without the Dim thumbnail...

Ok now the list:
1° The white angel (My favorite)
2° Natural brightness
3° The couple
4° The fugitive
5° White chaos

But maybe I´m just obssesed with white
Hope my selection could help you.

Matias, Chile

Hi Matias,

Thanks so much for your fine comment and for helping me. Some PC users mentioned that Wedev thing also to me (never saw it on PC as I'm working exclusively on Macintosh), any idea how I could deactivate the dim thing ?
Already uploaded a second gallery with some new ones to choose from, maybe I will ask later for help here if there is some feedback.
Muchas gracias,

Dirk

[matiasasun]

Hi!:
Glad to help, but I´m no expert so Ilan or other may can help you in a better way. As I can imagine a good way to *deactivate* webdev´s dim thumbnail, is to create a copy of webdev´s stylesheet but without the code for DIM thumbnails. I´ve tried some codes and this one should help you:

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a, a:link,a:visited,a:active {
        color: rgb(204, 204, 255);
        text-decoration: none;
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a:hover {
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        margin-bottom: -45px;
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        display: block;
        background: rgb(32, 32, 32);
        height: 197px;
        filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=100);
}
body{
        margin-bottom: 20px;
        margin-top: 0px;
        background: rgb(45, 45, 45);
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        font-weight: bold;
        letter-spacing: 4px;
        text-align: right;
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        border-bottom: rgb(0, 0, 0) 1px dotted;
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        color: rgb(204, 204, 255);
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        font-weight: normal;
        filter:
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        border: rgb(0, 0, 0) 1px solid;
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        width: 10%;
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        border-collapse: collapse;
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td.message_body {
        border-bottom: rgb(0, 0, 0) 1px dotted;
        border-left: 1px none;
        border-right: 1px none;
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        display: block;
        background: rgb(40, 40, 40);
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        font-size: 12px Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif;
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        border: rgb(0, 0, 0) 1px solid;
        margin-top: 1em;
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        filter:
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HR { position : relative;}

The code I´ve removed is this following, and I took it from the "a.td.thumbnail, a.td.thumbnail:link, a.td.thumbnail:visited, a.td.thumbnail" line:

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filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=60);

Well. Hope mister Webdev takes it as a complement to his great creation, as an extension of his work! All you have to do is to create a personal stylesheet and copy the first code. Then select it from the list in the edit page of the swan´s gallery and that´s all.

If somebody finds out about a possible (and may I say probable) problem that my extraction could have created, please let us know.

Bye,
Matias, Chile.

[dievee]

Hi!:
Glad to help, but I´m no expert so Ilan or other may can help you in a better way. As I can imagine a good way to *deactivate* webdev´s dim thumbnail, is to create a copy of webdev´s stylesheet but without the code for DIM thumbnails.
Well. Hope mister Webdev takes it as a complement to his great creation, as an extension of his work! All you have to do is to create a personal stylesheet and copy the first code. Then select it from the list in the edit page of the swan´s gallery and that´s all.

If somebody finds out about a possible (and may I say probable) problem that my extraction could have created, please let us know.

Bye,
Matias, Chile.

Hi Matias,

Your the man, thanks so much for helping me, just made a new stylesheet with the code and the effect is gone (on my Mac and hopefully also on PC's), a pity that I didn't work nice with PC's as the effect on Mac was really neat. I changed it for this gallery: http://www.pbase.com/dievee/swans__the_exposition
Could you be kind to look if it's looking much better now, then I will change the stylesheets of all my other galleries (almost all are with the Webdev stylesheet that I find very tastefull).
Thanks a million times for being concerned about the presentation of my pictures and your great help.

With warm regards,

[yippee2000]

I guess in the end, you might just go with the overall top choices here, since I can already see some "favorites" among the group....??

Anyway, I'm surprised nobody else mentioned my absolute fave which is:

Foggy Morning!

Others are:

White Angel
Couple
Soft Protection

[dievee]

I guess in the end, you might just go with the overall top choices here, since I can already see some "favorites" among the group....??

Anyway, I'm surprised nobody else mentioned my absolute fave which is:

Foggy Morning!

Others are:

White Angel
Couple
Soft Protection

Hi Yippee,

Thanks for helping me, really appreciated, this will make it easier for me and well I think that I add the Foggy Morning days after the other images, something that I may not do anymore. I already made a folder with a second group of images and some will follow later but I will not add images days after the others otherwise it will clutter the choises. Thank a lot.

With kind regards,

[matiasasun]

Hi!, your galleries look OK in my old IE. No problem. It is kind of strange to look at webdev and not seeing the DIM effect; It is not there, but I continuously keep triying to iluminate the thumb to see it

As for your selection; they´re all are good, but take a notice that White angel is one of the TOP pioctures of the month. Dawm that picture is great!.

[dievee]

Hi!, your galleries look OK in my old IE. No problem. It is kind of strange to look at webdev and not seeing the DIM effect; It is not there, but I continuously keep triying to iluminate the thumb to see it

As for your selection; they´re all are good, but take a notice that White angel is one of the TOP pioctures of the month. Dawm that picture is great!.

Hi Matias,

Thanks again, I will change all the galleries as I heard that the webdev looked ugly on the PC's, it didn't dim on the Mac but a colorframe appeared when the mouse was going over the pictures. Oh and thanks for mentioning that. I have so many other swan pictures that I will put in new sececting galleries, and I see that you can understand that it will not be easy to make a definitive selection but I surely will include the White Angel, the Ava Publications (called is so because it will be published in London in a book on digital photography by Ava) and also this one that seems to impress quite a lot of people.
I correspondence with a guy from Argentina living in Paraguay and he makes such amazing pictures, I absolute love his mad series called Inferno, his name is Martin Crespo and if you must be interested you can see his images here [/img]http://www.iso1600.com/
Thanks again,

With warm regards,