On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:06:58 -0400, Bowser <> wrote:
: On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:13:45 -0400, Robert Coe <> wrote:
:
: >On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:12:32 -0400, Bowser <> wrote:
: >: Just a reminder about the next mandate: Facescape. It's due May 16th,
: >: so find those faces full of character and send some shots.
: >:
: >:
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/facescape
: >:
: >: Next, the new mandate announcement: The Wallpaper Project. Here's what
: >: this means: I use a few of my shots as wallpaper on my PC; we all
: >: probably do. This mandate will challenge the shooter to produce the
: >: best wallpaper in wide screen format so other users can download and
: >: use the shot as wallpaper on their PC. All submissions must be 1920 x
: >: 1200 pixels to fill a wide monitor. Shooters are limited to ONE
: >: submission for this mandate only, so make your wallpaper a good one,
: >: and make sure it looks good at large sizes (like a 24" monitor). You
: >: may include your "signature" on the photo, as well. Lastly, the 300K
: >: file size limit is waived for this mandate.
: >:
: >:
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/wallpaper
: >:
: >: Flame on!
: >
: >It's an interesting idea, but I wonder if events haven't passed it by. In
: >Windows 7 you can have a slide show as your background, and they finally allow
: >you to specify that the picture must fit within your screen dimensions while
: >maintaining its aspect ratio. The practical effect is that some shots fill the
: >screen left-to-right and some fill it top-to-bottom, but pictures that fill a
: >1920 x 1200 screen exactly are rare (since no camera of which I'm aware uses
: >the 5x3 aspect ratio). I've cropped a few shots to 5x3, but usually to rescue
: >a shot that would have been discarded otherwise. Most of my (and my wife's)
: >best shots are 3x2, which I'll bet is true for most SI submitters. (Is 1920 x
: >1200 common? My Lenovo W500 uses it, but I don't think I've ever seen another
: >display that does.)
: >
: >Bob
:
: Monitors that use a 16:10 aspect ration are the norm now.
I hadn't realized that. I've only ever used one wide-screen monitor, and
that's built into a laptop. At work I use only pairs of 5x4 monitors.
: Maybe not all use the full 1920 x 1200, but the aspect ration is the same,
: so if you have a smaller screen, the pic will rez down but retain its
: proportions. My HP 2475w is a 24" S-IPS monitor, and presents a very
: nice 1920 x 1200 image. Even good P&S cams can produce a decent shot
: at that resolution.
Yeah, if you happen to plan for the 8x5 aspect ratio when you take the
picture. It isn't native to any camera, P&S or DSLR, as far as I know.
The point I was circling, but never really got around to making, is that in
Windows 7 the incentive to carefully craft a wallpaper picture that exactly
matches the monitor is diminished, for two reasons: 1) You can now specify
that the background picture fit within the available space without being
stretched or truncated, and 2) the background can be a slideshow. In a
slideshow you're apt to have pictures of various aspect ratios, and you can
include them all without worrying that they'll get mangled if their aspect
ratios don't match that of the display. I used to be a stickler for matching
the background picture to the display; now that the computers I use regularly
at work are Windows 7, I don't bother.
Bob
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