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Noone has yet explained the advantage of reducing the maximum image size on a photography site. Will you please?
This.

Comment by Darkmunk posted on New PU interface - URGENT! at 22/01/2015 - 09:04

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The problem with the gallery is the pictures keep changing size, so you have to chase the navigation around. Drives me nuts and is one of the things I would never have tolerated from my team of web designers back in the day.

Comment by Darkmunk posted on New PU interface - URGENT! at 20/01/2015 - 16:13

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Can't find the old thread or a feedback area so apologies for restarting this but some things need to be addressed fast....
I like the clean new look. The white is a little hard on the eyes, but it looks nice.
However.
The small photo size is an absolute joke on a photographic forum. This has to be addressed, it's ridiculous and incredibly tiresome. It doesn't even facilitate clicking through to a bigger image because it opens a new window which you have to close to get back to the next photo etc. etc. soooo crap! if I had designed this 10 years ago I would have been embarrassed. Come on!

iPhone and presumably iPad issues still exist. The site basically doesn't work on an iPhone unless you keep it at 100% which means it's impossible to read the text or view the images properly. It all goes pear-shaped as soon as you try to zoom in. The DIVs making up the page are are not structured properly so they expand incorrectly, overlap essential navigation and OBSCURE the comments box. Rendering replies a tortuous process.
Said DIVs auto-expand incorrectly even on my Mac, so they don't line up with each other when there's a small comment inside them - messy, careless coding.

Images are resized! noooooo! So even when the viewer clicks through to see all the glorious detail, they are still delivered a tiny image. Crunching a 645 or K3 image down to 800 pixels just compresses the tones and renders a relatively dark, gloomy image with no detail. Even the appalling FACEBOOK at least allows 2048 pixel images if people click-though.
Come on people! all computer screens are big nowadays and in particular, they are all WIDE! there is no need for all this white space space.
I find it shocking that this was talked-through and given the go-ahead?? so weird.

[edit] oh yes, you missed a trick with the gallery - it would be really nice and really simple to allow users to hit the arrow keys to navigate. and on mobiles - to be able to swipe. Simple simple simple.

Comment by Darkmunk posted on New PU interface - URGENT! at 20/01/2015 - 10:18

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AH, that would explain it. Lovely even lighting but I wonder if it would benefit from being set a little one-sided to give the feet some shadow? They don't appear to be resting on the fruit.

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Fruit weevil at 18/01/2015 - 15:17

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The Zed does have the same flash functionality as we're used to. I had to update the Metz 58 to get the HSS working, but it works fine

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Three ladies at 17/01/2015 - 17:26

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Thanks Nigel

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Dartmoor sunrise... sort of. at 17/01/2015 - 17:22

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Cracking shot Don.
What lighting did you use (if any)?

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Fruit weevil at 17/01/2015 - 17:20

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The 35mm on the Z is a match made in heaven
and the 25 even better, I feel a crime spree coming on

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Dartmoor sunrise... sort of. at 17/01/2015 - 10:44

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BRrr he says sitting here in a sweltering 35c.
I really like the 2nd and 3rd images, only thing that spoils the 2nd is that bit of foreground fence.
Thanks Don, It was a bit Brr, I can tell you. When that big grey cloud came over and emptied itself into the howling wind, I was glad I was in motorbike gear
I hadn't thought about that fence, but I think you're right. I'll get rid of that I think
I actually took some shots of the the droplets on the wire with the sun behind, but it wasn't really successful

Comment by Darkmunk posted on Dartmoor sunrise... sort of. at 17/01/2015 - 09:38

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Thanks Mike.
Here's the centre of that Christmas tree shot at 100%, after sharpening of course.
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Comment by Darkmunk posted on Dartmoor sunrise... sort of. at 16/01/2015 - 10:49

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