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      CommentAuthorjason (Admin)
    • CommentTimeAug 22nd 2008
     
    As many of you are aware, we at Aminus3 have to continuously look at ways to handle the growing number of members, images and comments and the impact this has on the performance of our servers. For this reason, we plan on limiting the portfolio page to a maximum of 200 photos. Members who currently have more than 200 photos in their portfolio will not be forced to remove them but they will not be able to add more photos to their portfolio until they trim it to be under the 200 limit.

    The portfolio page was originally designed to feature a subset of your top images. We think that for a blog with hundreds (or even thousands) of posts, a limit of 200 is still large enough number to display a good sample of your best work.

    Before implementing this change, we'd like to open it up to the community for discussion. Please share your thoughts and feel free to ask any questions you may have.
    • CommentAuthorpaulski
    • CommentTimeAug 22nd 2008
     
    Sounds like a good idea to me. Always kinda baffles me when members post every image to their portfolio page...
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      CommentAuthorbsurprised
    • CommentTimeAug 22nd 2008
     
    I so agree with paulski. I have seen many members do that and it actually keeps one away from having a look at someone's best work.
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      CommentAuthorjason (Admin)
    • CommentTimeAug 23rd 2008
     
    Thanks guys - that was part of our reasoning for this change.

    Also consider that we are (hopefully) constantly improving our photography skills so a portfolio image from two years ago may not be the best representation of our current work.

    I personally often forget about my portfolio images and then go prune it out every few months.
    • CommentAuthorechospond
    • CommentTimeAug 25th 2008
     
    Because Piclens picks up all your portfolio posts for the moving wall (and not from the archives, obviously), it's a good idea to put a lot of pics in the portfolio. It's also the only app that displays a really good range of your posts at a glance without having to click through page after page. So if I had to vote on this one, I'd vote against limiting the size of the portfolio.
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      CommentAuthorjason (Admin)
    • CommentTimeAug 25th 2008
     
    Actually, to clarify, your PicLens feed is generated by the RSS feed and is independent of your portfolio - otherwise you would only see images in PicLens that are included in the portfolio which is not the case.
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    fwiw i plan to only add my top 40 to the portfolio. (8) rows which is about as much as i think a visitor would scroll or view in full size.

    i...would...like to organize the portfolio by representative category rather than post date, i.e. five florals on a line together, 5 landscape, 5 street and etc. best...jerry
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      CommentAuthorjason (Admin)
    • CommentTimeAug 26th 2008
     
    request noted !
    • CommentAuthorparallax
    • CommentTimeAug 26th 2008
     
    I just made a first round of clean up for the portfolio, I will continue with the selection later, unfortunately I was one of the members selecting all photos to the portfolio, it has been reduced considerably now, you can take a look at my portfolio now and is much clearer, as I said I will make further selection to reduce it more, apologies for the inconvenience.
    • CommentAuthorechospond
    • CommentTimeAug 27th 2008
     
    Thanks Jason. So the RSS feeds the piclens app! That explains why there are are more than 100 posts in the feed - and I guess we can have no control over that number on an individuall basis ??? (I'll put a question mark here because it's a well-known feature of Australian English!). As for piclens, I don't always want to use it, and if it's not installed on the computer I'm using, the large portfolio shows ME at a glance which photos I've posted in case I mistakenly try to post the same photo twice (don't laugh - it's happened - I have more than 500 posts)!! For the latter reason therefore, I would still vote against limiting the size of the portfolio.
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      CommentAuthorhelen
    • CommentTimeAug 30th 2008 edited
     
    I just checked my portfolio and see that after two years of posting on Am3 I have 201 in my portfolio! Funnily enough I had been trying to prune it down lately (quality control). I believe keeping the number of photos in the portfolio down makes you consider the quality and merits of your superior photos.

    I rather like Jerry's idea really. 5 for each category would make 70. As well as that I think it would be great to choose the five along the top row as our 'all time best' photos. 75 or even 100 photos is a lot of shots. We have our tag clouds for that sort of thing.

    I have also thought for a while it would be great to have a function where we could tag just one photo to go into an Am3 gallery. To have a piclens gallery of 'Am3 'All time best' exhibition would be very cool.
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      CommentAuthorshuva (Admin)
    • CommentTimeAug 30th 2008
     
    I have a question: When you forward your Am3 URL to your friends, do you send the home page link or/and the portfolio link?

    I have sent only the portfolio links to some of my friends and the home URL to some other friends and sometime both. I reason I send the
    portfolio is that I want the receiver to get a quick idea of what shuva.aminus3.com contains. I have less than 70 and I actually want o keep it even lower so that the my visitor sees all of them on one page and the entire page should load very fast.
    • CommentAuthorechospond
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
     
    More on the portfolio: First, a possible advantage in placing limits is that the portfolio page URL is not especially SEO friendly in terms of information.The browser navigation bars (Firefox) merely show the image number, counting backwards from the latest portfolio entry which is always - 01.html to the first entry made in the portfolio. - eg. 593.html, which was my very first post to aminus3 and which I put into the portfolio on December 5, 2006.
    Viz:
    Browser: http://echospond.aminus3.com/portfolio/593.html
    Tab: Image 593 - Photography Portfolio of Sidonie - Echo's Pond

    You can see that information -in human language such as the title - about the subject of the image is missing (it was a photo of summer roses).

    I wouldn't concur with foregrounding the aesthetic significance of the term "portfolio". We all have the differing reasons for using the portfolio, and one's subjective or personal preference may have no appeal to another viewer, i.e. what I might consider an ordinary photo may be very interesting to someone else (this has happened frequently on my Flickr account.) My primary purpose is to document these few years of my life in a specific place, whereas someone else might have commercial or professional/career motivations in using aminus3. Also, the idea that we get better at taking photos isn't necessarily the case, either. My more recent photos aren't necessarily better than some of my earlier pics taken when my cameras were new, and I hadn't developed bad post-processing habits. Another reason for overusing the portfolio option is to tidy up the archives page and keep symmetry by lining up all entries with an asterisk, and not just some. Eccentric? Yes, of course! No doubt the aminus3 template will develop in the years to come to accommodate all our quirks and whims!

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