Echoes of Elliot Erwitt, Rob, who did excellent commercial work, but when the day's work was over took his Leica out into the madding crowd and did the stuff that moved his readers all over the world. All of this has been street. My only beef is that I wish you'd make the pictures larger. My 90 year-old eyes rebel.
On the computer, as I make them for the website, the actual image width is 650px. The white border with black rim takes it to a final 810px. I don't like to make them larger because the way I see things, even when editing, is at that around that size, it gives me a general sense of wholeness, whereas if larger, I inevitably find myself scanning the pic and being distracted by smaller areas of it that, for me, kill the integrity. That's not to say I don't view at varying image sizes when
working on the shot, of course.
Actually, quite a few posters post large images here on LuLa and they become impossible to see as straight pix without scrolling. I simply refuse to do it. Making a photo bigger does not make it better, just bigger, IMO. Eric once told me how to reduce such images to fit the screen, but I don't want to have to keep resetting things because a few are too large for my screens. Most of my viewing these days is on a small iPad, anyway, the computer and the monitor only used for processing images; it's far more comfortable viewing as a couch potato than in the cold office, sitting in a swivel chair. Also, the iPad screen is quite flattering, much of the time.
Rob
