@IsaacMoses I'm not sure I like the idea of putting them in the G'mara volumes. They're not good to have at hand when learning G'mara. But if you wish to do so, then a suggestion: Put the G'mara on a shelf or table where there's no shelf above and put the MY publications into the relevant G'mara volumes sticking out the top. Have them face the same way the G'mara volumes do, and take the photo from the left not the right.
@msh210 I'm ambivalent, too, about the particular books. I used the shas because it fills out the shelf, doesn't distractingly present any particular contemporary books, and happens to have a color that's close to that of the titles on the booklets. I could try composing a shelf of holiday-relevant books and artifacts, instead.
Having the booklets hang out like this is the least-awkward way I could think of to show all of the booklet covers.
... another way could be to have a shelf of stuff weighing down the top edges of the booklets, letting the booklets hang down over the front edge of the shelf. My shelves are wide enough to accommodate four booklets with some overlap
@IsaacMoses If you want to show them in their native environments / in use, the Pesach booklet should go in a hagada; the yamim noraim booklet should go in a machzor; the Chanuka booklet should sit near the candles; not sure about Purim. If you want to show them shelved, then they shouldn't stick out at all, but that of course defeats the purpose of taking the picture. But showing them in the G'mara is nisht a hin un nisht a her.
@msh210 I think it may be difficult to achieve showing four covers and any sort of realistic environment simultaneously. I was using the shas more as a generic Jewish-scholarship background. I agree that relevant books and artifacts would make a more appropriate background.
It took me approximately a minute to put together the pic I put up above. I'm glad I did, because it's helped generate ideas for a better composition that I can do later.
I put that together for the Jewcer page -- it was out of season so I didn't have everything on hand to populate the seder plate, but something like that would work for the haggadah companion.
And of course we have Isaac's photo for DoA. I suppose we could do multiple ads (linking to the same pubs page), though we probably don't want four. OTOH, we could rotate images.
@IsaacMoses There's no spine to speak of, so the "visible spine" rule for shelving books doesn't hold. And I just think having all the covers face the same way looks better. Maybe others differ, though: it's an opinion.
@msh210 can't we replace the image on the community ad by editing the meta post throughout the year? (I didn't mean an automatic rotation.) We'd want to be clear up front that we intend to do that, in case it affects people's voting habits.
@msh210 true. I'd been thinking (vaguely) seasonal rotations -- show one that's coming up or, in slow seasons, just one we want to highlight -- but we would lose the "hey look at all these" angle.
@IsaacMoses thanks. And I'll see if I can improve the Pesach one, unless somebody else wants to. (I think my seder plate is pretty, but at that scale any seder plate would do, I expect.)
I think, but am not certain, that bounties are refunded when posts are deleted. (I don't think they designed it that way; I think I heard that it's a side-effect of something else.) I can think of a place to look for evidence on another site.
@msh210 @MonicaCellio I agree. Shrunk down to it's portion of a community promotion ad, I think it'll be good enough to give the necessary impression, with little marginal benefit to making a whole new composition.
