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The difficulty with shooting any format other than 35mm (or digital) is that all the conventional web displays make them look wrong. Square photos 6x6 aren't quite so bad if the thumbnail is square, and generally 645 is okay, but 67, and anything that's an upright renders badly as a thumbnail. But worst of all is the panorama, which is either cropped to resemble nothing much, or comes out really tiny on the page.
So I made a new site for these 24x63 aspect photos, using a lightly fettled Hemingway template on Wordpress.com. But nice though it is, Hemingway is slightly problematic for photoblogs, in that the posts view doesn't actually show any photos, so the homepage on 2point71 is a page view instead. It is static though. Does anybody out there know how to make the photo on the home page change automagically, maybe randomly? And it would also be great to be able to produce a gallery view of all the entries, as a gallery page of thumbnails, but in the correct aspect ratio.
Anyone have any suggestions how to do that?
Aspect ratios (width:height) for common film (and digital) sizes, useful for converting to pixels:
- 35mm = 36:24 or 3:2
- 6x45 = 55:42
- 6x6 = 55:44
- 67 = 68.75:55
- Xpan = 63:24
- digital SLR = 3:2
- digital point-and-shoot = 4:3
- standard television = 4:3
- widescreen television = 16:9
Note that the 6x6 frame isn't square to allow for the sprocket holes. Please do go ahead and add others that might be useful, and of course let me know if I've got any of these wrong. Also, there might be photographs on 2point71 that people might like for the print swop. Most are of higher quality than the ones on Ipernity here.
Well, I like them.
s2art says:
As for the odd shaped thumbnails, 1st option, crop an interesting square section of the image perhaps, or use CSS and create a div in the format you want the thumbnails to appear.
here's mine from stunik.com
.thumbs {
width: 85px;
float:left;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
}
brendadada replies:
That CSS might well come in handy if/when I work out what to do with it, CSS has always been one of those things that makes my eyes glaze over, but it can't really be that difficult, can it?
s2art says:
As for film, it boils down to personal approach, but as we have 35 weeks year, contact, plus, 6 weeks of break, 10 rolls a week isn't out of the realm of possibilty, I shot 130 rolls in my 1st year in 1987, and 150 plus in 1988.
Finally the CSS, is dull and technical at one level, but the advantages are huge, especially with sites like the pic one, which I run pretty much on my own. I use stylemaster as my CSS editor, Dreamweaver's really sucks, using the stylemaster.app I gained an even better understanding of CSS. I personally know the developer, and he's a real nice guy, passionate about CSS and the state of the web as well as education.
www.westciv.com/style_master/
checkit
brendadada says:
35 contact weeks? No wonder you go a bit nuts from time to time. (jk)
I'll look at that, thank you!