Collecting digital images from the web or buying them in bulk on CD and posting them on the web as some sort of collecting victory is ridiculous. Images can be obtained in bulk, including high res, for nothing easily with next to no effort or little interest in the subject.
Many of us have large collections of images, likely many multiples of quantity you currently have. They are mostly want lists. We wouldn't even consider showing them as some sort of victory.
You can of course trumpet your newly acquired digital images if you like, however to some like me it looks infantile.
2 things:
- some consider high res images one step away from encouraging reproducing fakes which is rather frowned upon in this forum
- obtaining images without acknowledgement of the source is also considered by some as inappropriate. That someone put the effort into photographing which can involve a lot of time and effort and equipment. While it may be legal to take them in some circumstances, that doesn't make it acceptable, like farting or sneezing in someones face.
If anyone gives you high res images, they should be prepared those images can be used for anything. They are lost into the wild. You may indicate their intended purpose, however, they may be taken from your site/computer/usb against all your best intentions. You start off saying they are for use as a background to your pc, then as a website with good intentions... The use will change as all things do, yet those images cant be taken back.
Because you have missed the mark on so many levels, I can only think you have little regard, which is fine, but you will receive hostility. I reckon you could be a psychopath!:
Psychopaths are born with temperamental differences such as impulsivity, cortical underarousal, and fearlessness that lead them to risk-seeking behavior and an inability to internalize social norms.
The way I see it, from my point of view, you look like the psychopath here coming to dark conclusions about my character based on a few posts about James Bond posters. It is like I am a one-dimensional character from a cartoon movie. That is insane. Where did I claim any victory here about anything? Where did you see any image that I have posted in the internet besides the few ones that I linked to this thread to get to any conclusion about what I am doing? How many images do you know I want to "collect"? You know nothing, John Snow!
I started this as a challenge to myself, to build a simple, small website with the images of only the regular 23 quad posters of JB movies and US 1-sheets. I am doing _almost_ exactly that and that is my goal and I will stop at the completion of my goal because I don't see any personal reason to go beyond it. It has already taken too much of my time but since I am having fun learning new things (about Photoshop, mostly, also about some cool thing, html5, etc.) I will not stop until I am done. For me, the challenge of doing this, the website, the coding, is more relevant and satisfying than possessing the pictures of the posters. I am a hobbyist programmer much more than I am a JB poster "collector". Many the things I am learning I will not even use in the website.
I said "_almost_" because I have adapted my plans. I have discarded the idea of having the US-1 sheets (that would be much easier to find online) but I added all the Styles for the quads (and later I _may_ include the Advance quads if I can find enough of them). So I removed tens and added like 8 more, and may add, in the future, 15-20 more, and that's it. US-1 sheets have a different format and it is incompatible with my current "framework" for the quads.
And as I asked here once, show me ONE only website that shows, in one place, ALL regular quads for ALL JB movies correctly and in a decent resolution! There is none! Even the official books are missing. The famous JB websites I found all have miniature thumbnails of the posters.
And BTW, almost all images that I will use are from ha.com. Anyone can go there and look at them in a much higher resolution that the one I am going to use. If not for that site, I would have given up because if I was to depend on collectors like most of you here to get images, I'd be damned. Most of you, with some notable and rare exceptions, are too spoiled with your paper poster collection to understand and want to help. Spoiled and maybe afraid that your precious collection of thousands of posters will have its value diminished if a random guy creates a website showing 25-40 images of them.
