Faultline View, II
I’m cheating a bit with this evening’s post. I was going back through the images from my recent drive to Tom Minor Basin and came across another composition that I really like. This is essentially the same exact scene as from yesterday’s post, but taken at a much wider angle to include the larger clouds to the north of the mountains. I decided to present the image larger than usual, so I’ve posted it at 1000px wide. I’d love to get some feedback on which you prefer, so don’t hesitate to leave a comment. Happy St. Patty’s Day!
Both size formats look great, but I think I prefer the larger image.
Good to hear from you, Diane. Just to clarify, are you referring to the sizes or the compositions? I posted images at larger dimensions when I first started this blog, but have since scaled down a bit just to make sure people can see the whole image without having to scroll. This is mostly for the sake of vertical images, which are being chopped off in most browsers at only 700px tall. I like posting big images, but I wanted to keep the sizes between vertical and horizontal fairly consistent. Would you suggest that I post horizontal shots larger since they fit better on screens?
Second quick question for you - which composition do you like better, yesterday or today?
Thank you!
I like today’s shot better, as a composition that is. It’s got more of that Big Sky Country feel to it.
On the image size… I understand where you’re coming from. I’ve selected 700px as the longer size in all images as the base just for consistency.
A larger image is always nicer to look at, but at the same time the paranoid me wonders what someone else could do with a larger image.
Hello again! I actually like both compositions “Faultline View” and “Faultline View II”, and the way in which you’ve presented them in sequence (of sorts). Faultline View seems to suggest that the clouds are building with a possible storm on the way, and Faultline View II really shows the storm that is about to engulf the mountain. (a little bit of the unexpected)
I too, like seeing the images large scale, but don’t like having to scroll on the verticals. I would rather see the entire vertical on the screen at once. (like you already do.) But since the horizontal image can go larger, I think I would choose to have them full screen. Now “Stonebasin” is really, really large! I think I’ll need a new monitor for that one!
@Ramin - Good to see you again, and thank you for the feedback. Definitely some Big Sky Country going on in the latter post, I think I’m a bit partial to that composition as well. I, too, wonder about people lifting images, but if they’re going to do it they’re going to do it. I embed multiple layers of copyright info into the pictures, so that makes me feel a bit better if there were ever a dispute. I’m hoping against it…
@Diane - Thank you, also, for your feedback. I’m curious about your monitor resolution. Are my vertical images still too large? I think I might start sizing them to 650px tall instead of 700px. If you check out any of my square format images, they’re sized at 650×650. Let me know if they fit for you and I’ll probably make the switch. I appreciate your input on the compositions - sorry I had to ask you to clarify.
I took a look at various statistics that I have available of visitors to our sites and saw the following:
1024×768 accounts to 33-53% of visitors (the less technical the common it is). 1280×1024 varies between 22-32%. These two resolutions account for 70-75% of the visitors on the sites I looked at.
So I presume that 700px verticals are still a bit too much for many visitors.
No problem here with 700px. Your verticals fit perfectly on my screen.
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I prefer viewing the horizontal shots as a LARGER image, too. This picture, with the storm taking over, is overwhelming in a beautiful way. Your scenes involve that sky so often that I enjoy it smacking me in the face. So to speak!
@ramin - Great insight, ramin, I can’t believe I didn’t ever think to look at the browser stats. I’m at about the same percentages you are in terms of resolution. Thanks for tipping me off on this.
@Diane - Thanks for the letting me about the fit on your screen. I’m going to leave verticals at 700px tall, a little scrolling shouldn’t hurt a few folks too much. As ramin helped me realize, a lot viewers’ screen resolutions are adequate, and technology is driving them to be larger and larger every day.
@Vicki - You don’t want that storm slapping you in the face, friend, it was a ‘brutal beautiful’. Thanks for your input on sizes, I’m thinking of increasing horizontal shots a bit but haven’t quite made up my mind. I’ll definitely do so when the image warrants it, but not quite sure yet as a standard.