Larger viewing size for vertical images

[jfriend]

I shoot a lot of sports galleries entirely in the vertical orientation. Smugmug does not do a very good job of optimizing the viewing experience for such images. If you look at the gallery snapshot below, there is a ton of unused space. This gallery could both have a lot more thumbs and a much larger image. I know that it's reserving space for horizontal images, but such images don't exist on this page so it's giving us a lowest common denominator view rather than a view really optimized for what's on screen. We could have a main image that was two sizes larger and more thumbs on this page. Most of the bottom half of the screen is completely wasted. For reference, this window size is 1090px wide.

http://content.screencast.com/users/jfriend/folders/Jing/media/34a16bed-dd18-4736-86ad-e89069be23be/2009-05-25_1552.png

[Andy]

I'd like a link to this exact gallery and page please, John. Thanks.

[jfriend]

I'd like a link to this exact gallery and page please, John. Thanks. This page is http://friend.smugmug.com/gallery/8132372_CmAWz#530393970_76riH. It's password protected - let me know if you need the pwd. This gallery actually has a few horizontal images, but not on that last page.

Here's a gallery that is not password protected and has no horizontal images and illustrates the same issue: http://friend.smugmug.com/gallery/6387397_42PNn.