eric_searing

I did do a Spark presentation but found it more limiting than creating a PDF. What I am trying to ascertain is the viewers likelihood of opening a presentation vs clicking on thumbnails. I like presentations but find a lot of folks may not have bandwidth or maybe don' t like the presentation formats.

For many years I have had various online galleries to display a collection of my work. I would organize the gallery by topics such as People, abstract, nature, etc. On one occasion I created a PDF of a series of images around a single place and told a story. I am thinking more long term about how I display my images and looking for a way to build on a library rather than changing galleries every few years. IF you were to come across a website with images grouped in PDFs vs a thumbnail gallery - How likely would you be to download/open the PDF? Or are you more likely to scroll through a sliding panel ? Would the story added to the PDF add any weight to your decision. A good example of the PDF format would be Brooks Jensen's KoKoro where he explores a theme and related narrative.

Having recently acquired another 4x5 it is time to find my little Anba a new home. This is a sturdy, super light little camera which can take lenses from 65mm without recessed lens board to 300mm. The wood is in good condition with the exception of the bottom which has scratches from the QR system I used. Bellows are light tight. Uses Technica 96x99 lens boards in the front standard. Ground glass is satin snow purchased many years ago. The back has strong springs and is removable for changes from horizontal to vertical formats. A great starter camera for those looking to try LF. I have lenses and accessories if you need them. Asking $550 including shipping costs in Conus and paypal fees are on me. http://www.searing.photography/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mycamera.jpg

We did stuff like that using flash back in 2005 using a stitched set of images in a 180 degree pattern or using the movie timeline to go through "layers" of an image shot at different times of the day. We created mini movies that corresponded to where the mouse was on the screen and could fade out of one image and bring another forward. Or swap a color image with black and white using transparency based on mouse coordinates. There was even a truck/jeep ad that used a bank of cameras to capture a vehicle from several angles as it splashed through a bog that you could rotate around.