motionlessmemories opened this issue on Dec 15, 2010 · 18 posts
inshaala posted Tue, 25 January 2011 at 4:13 PM
Sorry to bash this point again, but check page 3 of your gallery - there are three (!) photos in there which are different exposures (i can see through the slight differences in tilt / exposure) but are of exactly the same frame / scene. (The golf course with trees and the mountains in the background.) And that isnt the only duplicate, or "slight change" in shot or timing thereof in your gallery as i spotted a few more (some of the portraits for instance are both in B&W and colour but are obviously the same exposure) - choose one photo to represent the framing and scene you chose - you are the photographer / artist, you get to chose.
Maybe going through and deleting those duplicated might bring down the numbers but even so i still think there are too many photos on there which get the viewer bogged down in the detail of your catalogue rather than give them a quick selection of your best work.
I recently went back through my catalogue to create a coffee table book. My catalogue (as i can never be bothered to delete the non-keepers) is over 65K images...i have about 620 images on my renderosity gallery which at the time of posting each of them i deemed "gallery worthy" and there were only 60 images in that book which i was ultimately happy with as presenting as my best work... considering i seem to work on a 1% "keeper" ratio when out shooting, and that is further condensed as explained above to a 10% "Coffee table worthy keeper" ratio - maybe you should think along the same lines?
60 images would mean 3 pages of gallery at your current 20 per page setup and not 11 pages... which to be honest no-one is going to go through. If you really want to keep that many photos in a gallery then i would recommend splitting the galleries into themes - Flowers / People / Abstract etc....
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