> I recognize that perhaps most of my gallery reviews are either insensitive, ignorant or on a really good day both. I generally look quite hard at a photo to try and find something I can relate to and therefore make a positive comment about but there are times when I just can't relate to the image and quite often that is due to my ignorance. Nah: say what you mean and stick to it. Honest opinions are hard to come by. >I just don't have the artistic or photographic background that many of the list members possess. You submit reviews ... that's good enough for me. I try to get round to it - but (as with last week) I can't always find the time. >I don't know 99% of the famous photographers mentioned on the list Ditto! >So sure, sometimes people get offended when I say I don't understand or can't relate to an image but hey, what else can I say? Heck, an image is like a joke: if you have to explain it it probably wasn't that good after all ;o) >Other times I'm just in one of those 'moods' where my brain shifts a bit in my head and nothing but insensitivity spills out but of course that's a biological thing and I am powerless to stop it. Have you met Bobert ? > I don't see the 50k limit as a hindrance at all. It is a limit: some images just don't compress well (too much fine detail) so I don't send them. For others 50K is plenty. I compress images with jpeg wizard before sending them in. If the quality suffers too much they a) don't get submitted b) get downsized first >Remember, don't blame the tools, blame the photographer. Blame the photographer for using the wrong tools maybe? A lot of images come in with huge headers (exif, profile, embedded thumbnails). These take up space that could be used for image detail. Bob Talbot _______________________________________________________________________ Freeserve AnyTime, only £13.99 per month with one month's FREE trial! For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 970 8890
